Floor Jack purchase recommendations

[net30]

Time to upgrade some previous bought cheap stuff. Looking to buy a good quality floor jack...any recommendations? Thanks.

[Palindrome]

I bought mine years ago at a yard sale and don't know the brand. It has a great feature I seldom see: a short hand lever in addition to the long one. Use it to lift while you settle the pad at the right spot on your frame.

[Napes]

I've been pleased with the aluminum, light-weight I got several years ago (maybe 5-6 yrs) at Harbor Freight. They regularly have specials on the quick pump models - last week-end they were going for $60. Make sure you get one that goes as high as you'll regularly want.

Bob Napier

[///mChris]

A few years ago I had to replace my floor jack. I figured I'd step up with the craftsman professional 3 ton. It's a little too bulky. I wish I'd gotten the 1.5 ton with the LED. The harbor freight ones are looking pretty good these days.

[Guest Anonymous]

Harbor freight my friend has really good light weight jacks and dont forget to download the 20% coupon I was there today bought some air saw blades,and a brake bleeder pump and used my coupon saved 27.00

[jgerock]

I have two rather heavy jacks. One is a black Craftsman 3 Ton, another is a silver 2.5 ton Sears that my dad gave to me - it is about 25 years old and has never had problems.

[Guest Anonymous]

Harbor freight my friend has really good light weight jacks and dont forget to download the 20% coupon I was there today bought some air saw blades,and a brake bleeder pump and used my coupon saved 27.00

[Guest Anonymous]

Harbor freight my friend has really good light weight jacks and dont forget to download the 20% coupon I was there today bought some air saw blades,and a brake bleeder pump and used my coupon saved 27.00

[Guest Anonymous]

Harbor freight my friend has really good light weight jacks and dont forget to download the 20% coupon I was there today bought some air saw blades,and a brake bleeder pump and used my coupon saved 27.00

[jgerock]

The silver one was $ 50.00 at the Sears Outlet. I remember because I had to carry it to the car! The black one was on sale for about $ 69.00.

[ahlem]

If you buy the Harbor Freight one, don't lose the instructions on how to bleed the air out of the system once you have to refill the jack oil after it leaks out. As with many Harbor Freight items with moving parts, there is a quality/price parameter that may get you once in a while. When it's full of jack oil and air-bled it works quite nicely. Other items I have bought from them have been perfectly good, except for the aluminum jack on sale with the 20% off coupon.

[Nicad]

When my 25 year old Taiwanese jack wouldn't hold pressure, I looked far and wide for a nice jack. I liked the American Forge low jack (Ok, made in China of course) but ended up buying this Arcan from Northern Tools

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200345429_200345429

It has been very good so far. Lifts the car very high and fits under the car much better than my old one.

From my research Norco also makes a good Jack. Many cheap jacks have very short lived seals from what I have read. Hope mine isn't one of them.

[Ian]

About 8 years ago I bought an AC Hydraulic low-profile high-lift 4400 lb jack:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/TOOL/POR_TOOL_ACHyd1_pg3.htm

It was expensive, but man, this is one of the best tools you can put in your garage if you can't afford a lift. It gets under almost every lowered car I've tried, raises above 19" with no fuss, and has had zero problems.

[rms_sandiego]

+1 on the Arcan. Costco sells it for under $100 in Southern California. It gets under lowered cars and lifts higher (21 1/2") than aluminum jacks. I have had Toro and low end Craftsman, and the Arcan is much better.

[mcaden]

I keep the on sale Harbor Freight light weight alum jack on hand for small jobs and travel. It is cheap and it works. However, for bigger jobs I use the sunex two ton jack. Its a beast: http://www.tooltopia.com/sunex-tools-6613a.aspx?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=SUN6613A&utm_campaign=googlebase_18u

By the way, I do what Jim G does and cover the jack pad (and jack stands) with duct tape.

Good luck.

Marc