| Re: [GMCnet] jacks [message #77012] |
Wed, 17 March 2010 22:20  |
Denis Leconte
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Registered: July 2007
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Sorry to be a bit late to the party! I had my misadventure 2 weeks ago with my 3-ton Harbor Freight jack. It may be getting a little old, mind you - but, I had it under the front crossmember and once I had the engine in, it definitely would not lift the front of the motorhome clear off the ground. I would pump, but no lift happened.
Eventually I pulled out my other jack - a 2 1/4 ton, and used them together, one each side of the front crossmember. That did the trick.
I am really glad to hear that the 2.5 ton long reach is enough, because I have been ogling those - the short reach ones simply don't have enough travel, so I have to build cribbing under the frame rails and under the jacks themselves and try again - it's time consuming.
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Denis Leconte - denis_leconte@yahoo.com
1977 Eleganza II - 455 engine - Los Angeles, CA
--- On Wed, 3/17/10, Charles Boyd <covered-wagon@comcast.net> wrote:
> From: Charles Boyd <covered-wagon@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] jacks
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 5:55 PM
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> jayrabe wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 18:26
> > Denis,
> >
> > Now I'm really concerned and confused. Last weekend I
> bought a 3-ton floor jack with the intention of using it to
> lift the front of my PB to install the front wheel hub
> spacers. Work and rain have prevented me from trying it yet,
> though today it's finally clear and I'm off work so I'm
> planning on giving it a try tomorrow.
> >
> > Don't understand why a 3-ton = 6000# capacity floor
> jack would be insufficient to lift a front end that weighed
> about 3700# on the truck scale. Please explain.
> >
> > Agree completely about the danger of walking into
> HFreight!
>
> Sir: I understand your issue, I have a 3 ton
> Craftsman jack that I have to put rocks in my pockets and
> stand on it to jack the front of the coach from the
> middle. The 2 "orange" 3 ton floor jacks I have
> would not do it. They blew out after a few uses. No
> offence Sir, Sometimes you get what you pay for. I
> really don`t like cheep jacks.. especially if I intend
> to use them more than once.
> --
> C. Boyd
> 76 Crestmont by Midas
> East Tennessee
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| Re: [GMCnet] jacks [message #77036 is a reply to message #77012] |
Thu, 18 March 2010 07:30  |
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Matt Colie
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| Denis Leconte wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 23:20 |
Sorry to be a bit late to the party! I had my misadventure 2 weeks ago with my 3-ton Harbor Freight jack. It may be getting a little old, mind you - but, I had it under the front crossmember and once I had the engine in, it definitely would not lift the front of the motorhome clear off the ground. I would pump, but no lift happened.
Eventually I pulled out my other jack - a 2 1/4 ton, and used them together, one each side of the front crossmember. That did the trick.
I am really glad to hear that the 2.5 ton long reach is enough, because I have been ogling those - the short reach ones simply don't have enough travel, so I have to build cribbing under the frame rails and under the jacks themselves and try again - it's time consuming.
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Denis Leconte - denis_leconte@yahoo.com
1977 Eleganza II - 455 engine - Los Angeles, CA
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Denis,
Take the floor jack back to HF and have them give you another to try. They are supposed to have a very good return policy and it is a good thing. I have known a lot of things to go back for replacement/credit/cash. Mine lifts the front - not easily - but it does lift it and my coach was 4230 on the front wheels.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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| Re: [GMCnet] jacks [message #77075 is a reply to message #77012] |
Thu, 18 March 2010 10:43 |
C Boyd
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[quote title=Denis Leconte wrote on Wed, 17 March 2010 23:20]Sorry to be a bit late to the party! I had my misadventure 2 weeks ago with my 3-ton Harbor Freight jack. It may be getting a little old, mind you - but, I had it under the front crossmember and once I had the engine in, it definitely would not lift the front of the motorhome clear off the ground. I would pump, but no lift happened.
Denis: you might try adding a little oil to the jack if it jacks OK for a while, but not all the way up.
C. Boyd
76 Crestmont
East Tennessee
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