Winching Chains

A pair of adjustable high tensile winching chains and perhaps a webbing tree strop with the appropriate shackles turn the high lift into an even more versatile piece of equipment. Quite often one only requires a short pull to get out of a predicament.

Using the Jack

Let's start with a simple use. Changing a wheel for instance, either on or off road. So you have a puncture. Well it happens to us all at sometime or other and sometimes it happens all too often. Even if you have got your trusty screw jack or hydraulic bottle jack, it's not much fun in trying to reach under the vehicle to place it under the axle is it? If it's muddy you will have to get a base under it as well to stop the jack from sinking. Then nine times out of ten you have to screw out the centre section of the jack to locate it first under the axle before raising. All very fiddly and time consuming. To be honest, I'm not very pleased with the rather slow operation of the standard 90/110 bumper jacks either.

So this is the way to do it! Out with your high lift jack, find the wheel wrench and take off your spare wheel. Aren't the standard wrenches terrible! Spindly affairs. Take my advice. Ring up one of the major advertisers in one of the magazines and order a proper wheel nut wrench. They come in two nut sizes. 27mm for metric wheel nuts on most Series 111's, all Land Rover/Defender 90/110, all Range Rover and Discoverys. 15/16" for imperial for nuts on Series 1 or 11. I have no idea who makes them, but they are painted blue - refer the advertiser to this article!

Whichever Land Rover product you own, engage low ratio (and make sure it is fully engaged). If your vehicle has full- time permanent transmission, engage the centre differential (if fitted) as well. Switch the engine off, engage first gear and have the handbrake on. You should also chock behind one or preferably two of the wheels at the opposite end of the vehicle.

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