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Use hi lift under front winch bar or towbar on the back to take the weight off and then use a different jack to change tyre, hi lift uses less energy than a bottle jack (lazy bastard) used to use mine as a winch till I got a proper one, now it gets used to get the truck out of ruts is I run out of clearance. Just make sure you have a good solid base, used it once wih my mu, it slipped and got jammed behind the spare tyre and through the panel behind it still holding some of the weight.... In the middle-of-the-road nowhere of Course!
Bent my old towbar lifting my Prado out of ruts, but yeah, carry a lump of 300x300 x 50 timber as a footing for the jack. they are a good tool if used properly
Oversize tyres on 4x4? I have a hydraulic bottle jack with a good solid lump of timber to place under the jack , Otherwise I use my hi lift off front or rear bar work, and I use a length of chain around the chassis to the axle to stop the suspension drooping. otherwise I run out of jack and the tyre can still be on the ground. Another option with the hi lift is a wheel adapter which you can use to lift the wheel off the ground then place an axle stand or block under the axle, swap the wheel over then use the hi lift and reverse the operation.
Last edited by ROKTOY; 17-06-2017 at 07:35 PM.
Yeah i think having some timber on the back is the go.
Dang @Gibo seeing that has made me add garden edging to my town shopping list! Don't much real 4wd but last week I kept getting snow throuh the drivers window! And no I couldn't put it up as the 3dogs in the back had leftover venison for dinner....
Cost 35 bucks. $20 for 10m of edging and 15 for rivets and washers.
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