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Ah right. Works ok on my D2. I put a lump of wood in above just in case it moves towards the jack - tends to spread it out over the surface area. On a more modern car with more bulgy and thinner bodywork I could see the issue.
I have also used the wheel adaptor on my tow bar and bull bar with success.
I have a high lift jack that lives in the shed now that I have a set of Tred's.
I find that the recovery tracks are far safer, faster and easier to use than mucking about jacking up the truck with something that weighs about the same weight as a small engine block, is inherently dangerous and when the truck is jacked up on the beach you have to find something to put under the wheels anyway because just filling the hole with the same powdery sand is pointless.
Yes if I was ever going to use it on my car I would use the the jack in the tow bar receiver - though the lack of stability comes into play when lifting in the centre - same as used to happen in my series 1, series 3 and 101. However you can use this instability to advantage if you need to move a vehicle sideways - jack in the center and push sideways if it hasn't already fallen sideways. If I had a bull bar I would have the type that has the slots for the high lift but these days lugging around a hi lift is more hassle than it was worth.Quote:
Originally Posted by gusthedog
Different in 1977 when I got mine - there were not maxtrax, no electric winches, no bull bags so at the time the jack was the the most hi tech piece of kit available - even tried using it as a winch but they dont really work by themselves - I found the 1m or so pull range just takes the slack out of the cables and doesn't actually pull the vehicle. I then bought a fence wire puller and used it to pull the slack out of the cables and tension then before connecting the hi lift - even so still only managed about 2 foot pull of the vehicle - phew hard work.
So these days, in reality I think something like maxtraxs and a decent normal jack will get you out of most stuff - combined with lowering tyres etc. Though as I indicated in an earlier post before maxtrax I used to use my car mats and an old doona to get out - seemed to work as well as maxtrax in sand etc.
An informative thread.
Garry
I have to admit that apart from a couple of 4WD training days, the only time I have actually used a high lift jack in anger was to do the tip it sideways trick. We managed to shift a vehicle crabwise out of a boggy bit of marsh and onto firmer ground when we didn't have any other form of recovery gear. Slow going but effective.