I have a pair of landcruiser phil's jack adaptors which are excellent. But I have a beef that's more generic. when trying to jack up under the 80's rear diff/axle housing the supplied factory three-piece rod plus handle is fiddly to use, flexes a lot and it's difficult to stop the jack from 'dancing' as the turning action of the hook doesn't directly translate to rotation of the screw mechanism input shaft.
Has anyone ever been able to come up with an answer? I don't have the spare wheel suspended under the cargo area floor and even without that it's still not very safe.
Here's the factory jack with adaptor and an older (40 series I think?) handle to turn the three-piece hooked rod with:
To operate that handle I'm half crawling under the back corner of the vehicle. I think the hook fitting to the screw jack input shaft is a fair part of the problem, but the jack itself is otherwise good as it'll lift twice as high as a regular hydraulic bottle jack.
Is there a solution or is this an artefact that we're stuck with?
If I need to do serious work I will use a trolley jack to lift and get jack stands positioned, but out on the field a big trolley jack is out of the question.
Craig.
Has anyone ever been able to come up with an answer? I don't have the spare wheel suspended under the cargo area floor and even without that it's still not very safe.
Here's the factory jack with adaptor and an older (40 series I think?) handle to turn the three-piece hooked rod with:
To operate that handle I'm half crawling under the back corner of the vehicle. I think the hook fitting to the screw jack input shaft is a fair part of the problem, but the jack itself is otherwise good as it'll lift twice as high as a regular hydraulic bottle jack.
Is there a solution or is this an artefact that we're stuck with?
If I need to do serious work I will use a trolley jack to lift and get jack stands positioned, but out on the field a big trolley jack is out of the question.
Craig.