Thread: Factory Defender Jack Warning

I know someone who is now dead because his car fell on him.

Gruesome story. Wife found him after she came home.

DO NOT **** around with cars and jacks. Simple.

I should say knew. BTW this guy was into sillyfast racing motorcycles. Seems ever the more unfortunate that he went that way.

Yep well i wnon get under a car without doing it safely if using a high lift its ok if the wheels are still on but not if there off ...

As for stands i have a set welded to rims to make em high enuf and i also hav a taller set for workin on landys

Well its all been said in previous posts i wont repeat it

You and your mate have learnt a valuble lesson and survived to tell the story , not one id be proud of

i hope you mate makes a full recovery with out too many dramas

Originally Posted by cartm58

always tuck a spare wheel under the body of the vehicle you are jacking

if the vehicle falls off the jack it will land on spare wheel and crush you

this is like an echo thats what I said sort of, except for the crushing you bit


john

Yep, in hindsight many lessons from this. Let me just say that I do have jack stands and I am normally very conscious about this. Today I didn't do it because we weren't really working under the car that much and secondly the car was going to be very high and moving around a bit. We did have a wheel under the car but it was significantly lower than anything else LOL.

I measured under the towbar at the back and the car is 900mm off the ground at the height where we were doing our work. This is about 300 or a foot above the height of my stands . In hindsight, and when fixing the mess I managed to put a stand under the chassis around the middle of the car. This probably would have saved us today.

However, I intended this thread to let you all know that the factory landrover jack can work it's way out of the tube and eject itself. If the tab is not against the body lower the car and keep trying until it is!.

All this talk of jack stands is well and good but you never want it to happen. WATCH THE FACTORY JACK IT BITES.

If changing springs or shocks you should still have axle stands under the axle. When you release the shocks and spring retainers you can then jack the vehicle up (with a high lift or similar) and remove the springs.

Be sure you dont jack it so far as to lift the axle from the stands as well.

If the jack slips the vehicle will drop onto the bump stops and still be supported on the axle stands.

And as mentioned above, throw a spare wheel or two under the chassis rails just to be sure.

All of the above is very scary ... but cop this lot.

My first County ... same bloody jack. The thread on the female part **** itself. So without any warning you would wind and wind and then ....
VOILA ... the entire assembly would slip down the threaded shaft.

I would never trust those mongrel bastard things ... ever.