A shackle placed right under the lifting mechanism for additional safety
A jack bag makes the jack easier and cleaner to handle
Enter adaptor number 2! Launched three or four years ago, I have designed a Rear Adaptor to suit all models of Land Rover, Defender, Classic Range Rover and Discovery. This adaptor has been designed to lift the whole of the back of the vehicle when casting to clear deep ruts or changing rear wheels. It fits onto the rear towing drop plate and secured either by the tow ball bolts or fitted above the ball.
Top Clamp
A most useful accessory indeed. It may not have many uses when out off roading, but around the home, workshop or farm it turns the Jackall into a device that will either spread or cramp depending on which way the lifting mechanism is facing on the rack. Incidentally, you can slide off this mechanism right off the top of the rack and turn it around and replace it onto the rack and it won't fall to pieces or collapse. I thought you would like to know that!
The Top Clamp can be used anywhere along the rack so if you want to squeeze up an object which is only a foot thick, then that's fine. Or you may need to force a door frame open in an emergency. Again any width up to nearly 5' is possible with the longer of the two jacks.
Shackles
A couple of 1/2" (12mm) shackles are ideal to keep alongside your jack. As in any jacking operation, one must NEVER climb under a raised vehicle. If you have to get underneath to carry out a repair or adjustment, locate proper axle stands under the axle and possibily also under the chassis.
The high lift jack is brilliant for helping one to change wheels quickly. In that case you are only raising the vehicle high enough to get the replacement inflated tyre on the studs. And it is safe to do just that, but no doubt one day you will have a binding brake lining to see to, or a disc pads to change. You could easily be out in the field, so to speak.
Providing you are most careful in chocking the other three wheels, have parked on level ground and don't start thumping things with a huge hammer, you could work at arm's length on that stub axle working at all times with an awareness of danger: Keep your head out of the wheel arch.
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A shackle placed right under the lifting mechanism for additional safety |
A jack bag makes the jack easier and cleaner to handle |
High capacity bodied Land Rovers present a bit of a problem on the back in so far as the rear crossmember is tucked away underneath. But then owners of Range Rover and Discovery will already know that there's not a lot on the back to use the jack on.
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