If you buy the daytona 3½ ton jack in steel, be prepared to pick it up.

It is heavier than all get out!

I bought the 3½ ton aluminum Daytona jack & love it. I can actually pick it up & put it in the truck if need be.

I've had it for 2 years & it has been great.

 

Does it lift high enough to get a truck like F150 tires off the ground for tire rotations? My HF jack doesn't go high enough for my truck or SUV so need a new one.

 

Also for a extra $30 or $40 dollars you can purchase a 3 year extended warranty. That will get 4 years of replacement coverage on the jack.

 

I'd guess a hyd repair shop could put together seals + o-rings for the old one. But if it's $100 for the set, it's decision time, since HF daytona 2 ton starts under $200

 

Yeah I looked into that a few years ago and nobody was interested. My issue is they sell kits but apparently there’s nothing complete for my particular one. There’s pretty much one online vendor hcrcnow/Lazzar and they only have an incomplete kit. That’s pretty much a death sentence for it I’m afraid.

 

I have multiple HF floor jacks. 4 ton, 3 ton, 3 ton low pro, 2 ton aluminum race...they all work great for me. No issues with any of them in 5+ years

 

I like my harbor freight jack, I have the aluminum 2 ton. Well, at least I thought it was aluminum like the box told me but left it outside for a week and I'll be damned if the "aluminum" didn't start rusting. Still love the jack, it functions great and a lot less weight than the full steel one, but super annoyed it's a mix of aluminum and steel.

 

 

I've got the Daytona like half of everyone in the world at this point - it works awesome. I'd say grab it, I haven't been disappointed with mine in any way.

Here it is hoisting up the back of the 1025R so I can put my spacers on.

 

Side note, the HF Daytona jacks are very popular and there are companies that make accessories designed for them, including lift extensions for lifted vehicles.

The HF badlands off road jack seems poplar too.

I have an old craftsman high lift jack I keed in my truck tool box and 3.5T Larin that sits lower in the shop. Previously owned a car that the craftsman didn't fit under very well. The Larin has a much larger jack pad area. The Larin was purchased at Tractor Supply years ago on clearance for half of original price (I think it was a black friday sale).

Dan

 

Just got a Daytona Super duty last week

Has a hard rubber pad and pumps really fast. Says it lifts up to 24” so no need for dunnage which I used to use with my 30 year old HF

It’s heavy as said above but I ain’t packin it around in my truck and it will live on my garage floor so there’s that. If I want something light I bust out the bottle jack

 

Just got a Daytona Super duty last week
View attachment 1020476 View attachment 1020477 View attachment 1020479 View attachment 1020480 Has a hard rubber pad and pumps really fast. Says it lifts up to 24” so no need for dunnage which I used to use with my 30 year old HF
View attachment 1020481 It’s heavy as said above but I ain’t packin it around in my truck and it will live on my garage floor so there’s that. If I want something light I bust out the bottle jack

The parking lot sale was extended this weekend if anyone missed last week.

 

The HF jacks seem to work fine. There's a grease fitting at the base of the handle. Put a little grease in it, they likely didn't.

 

I greased mine first thing and some red grease squished out in front of it so I believe they did grease it lightly. Not to say all are greased. You know how QC has gone downhill these days

 

I have this one, or one of the variants:

https://www.harborfreight.com/automotive/jacks-jack-stands/floor-jacks/25-ton-low-profile-aluminum-racing-floor-jack-with-rapid-pump-64543.html

Works fine for rotating the tires on my Jeep Gladiator, or fitting under my SS Camaro.

About to buy a second one and finally get rid of my old, leaky, all steel one I picked up 15 or more years ago (different brand). Nice thing about these aluminum ones is they aren't impossibly to throw in the bed of my truck and go deal with a problem elsewhere if I need to.

 

My Father In Law has a 4 Ton from Harbor Freight that I use all the time, I don't remember the exact model.

It lifts the entire side of our Toyota 4Runner with ease when I rotate the tires.

It is HEAVY however, if I ever have to bring it from the shop down to my house I throw it in the bucket of the 1025R!

 

I wanted an aluminum one for lighter duty,, because it is easier to move,,
After checking the price at HF,, I buzzed the one mile over to Northern Tool,,

The one at Northern looked better built, and was 30% less $$$,,

So, the Northern one came home,,,

 

Pretty much decided on the HF 3 ton super duty, low profile one for $290. I like the 3 year warranty and don’t need the extended reach. I looked at everything else and it just seems this is the best option for me. I was curious if there were any US made ones and the cost (knowing they’d be ridiculously priced). All I could find were Hein Werner that start at about double the price. Looked at OTC with lifetime warranty but they’re Chinese made as well.

 

I have an older 3 ton Pittsburgh jack I bought at Harbor Freight around 2012. For the first couple years of its life it lived in my garage but after I moved it has set outside since. Been through a few hurricanes and countless storms (daily occurrence in summer here) and has had the everliving crap beat out of it by the intense UV and heat every summer. It looks like crap but I still trust it to lift anything within its capacity. It has never failed me.

When it eventually does I'll go get a Daytona jack.

 

HF Daytona here. Has served me well for past few years and will pick up my F350 dually w/o a prob. Course may need to add some wooden blocks to the disk, but no issues otherwise.. Also have 4 HF 3 or 4 ton jack stands and no probes w/ them either.

 

Well nothing to do with jacks but an observation. I see everyone saying how heavy a floor jack is, I am coming up on 70 and just mixed twenty 80 lb bags of quickrete for a small concrete pour..................... to be fair the wife does measure all the water.

 

I’ve always been a Sears guy. Worn several out over the years. I knew I could get parts for them. But I have an old 1.5T aluminum craftsman, 2-3T HF and a HF MC lift. The aluminum one is heavy but the steel one is like 75 pounds. I figure don’t buy a life time jack anymore. Buy a cheap one, wear it out and go get another one. I did get a kick out of the guys at the scrap yard. I pitched that old jack out on the scrap pile and they almost ran out there to pick it out. It was irreparable or I wouldn’t have tossed it. Maybe some of the metal is in the new one I bought. 🤷‍♂️

 

I was in the middle of a brake job when my old floor jack bit the bullet. Needed something that day and HF was the best deal - picked up one of the low profile Pittsburgh 3 tons and it has worked great for the past year.

 

I bought one of HF's light weight floor jacks to carry in the ton flatbed, works great for both the truck and the trailer, I'm happy with it so far. Now if I could just remember to put the Milwaukee impact back in it...

 

I have 3 Horrible Freight roller jacks ,all of them steel never any problems.Last one I bought was their highest lifting 24" long reach that I use to put my muscle cars up on 12" on the tire cribs I made. But no complaints on the first 2 over 20 years old.

 

Mine was built in 22 but still new outta the box. Grease er up and get after it. I rotated tires on 2 vehicles inside an hr last weekend thanks to that jack. It’s heavy but the efficiency at which it performs is a game changer when you got other stuff to do. I also like the ease of control on the handle twist to gently lower the vehicle that my old jack sucked at. You’ll like it even if it’s yellow. 😁

 

HA! I actually wanted the yellow one! The "purple" wasn't for me and the red I thought might be a bit cheezy till I got to the store. The red one was actually preferable once I saw it in person...they're way less obnoxious than they looked online. Bottom line is it's a jack...nuff said!

 

So to prove once again that I'm the biggest idiot on this forum, I just got back from a 2 hour round trip to exchange my yellow jack for the candy apple metallic red one. My wife doesn't even respond to my idiocy anymore...she just looks away when I tell her stuff like "I'm heading back to the store to get the red one".... The guy at HF said the purple metallicis by far their biggest seller. Now that I'm home I'm wondering hmmmm...purple huh?

 

One of Jeff Dunham's best character's is purple!

 

Looking at the purple one, I can see how folks like it, but red looks way nicer IMHO. I grabbed a candy apple red one day one of the sale a couple weeks ago. Funny thing is the guy accidentally rang up the purple and I had to have them return and rebuy so I could get the red one.

 

A friend of mine has been a mechanic for over 30 years and is a poster boy for Snap-On tools. He got a new, young mechanic fresh out of school who had a bunch of HF tools, including the big yellow 3 ton HF jack. Needless to say, he gave the kid a bad time every time his tools failed/broke. Well, the kid used his HF jack on several pieces of equipment that were way too heavy, and it finally blew a seal. There were no seal kits for the HF available at the time, so they tried a Snap-On kit. His rebuild kit is the $2000 Snap-On, is the EXACT replacement for the yellow HF Daytona jack. Now he wonders if they are are made at the same facility overseas, as his Snap-On jack is an offshore build as well. Only difference they could find was the name and the color. When he told me that, I went to HF and bought (3) 3 ton Daytonas for myself, my son, and both son-n-laws on Father's Day special several years ago. They are awesome!

 

Undoubtedly... Because Snap-on/was is a tool manufacturer of premium tools with years of R&D to make those quality tools for big bucks and HFT is a reseller of reverse engineered Chinese copies of those Snap-on tools. And everyone else's products. They have cloning/copying/pirating down to a science.

I doubt anyone even makes an onshore made floor jack. Perhaps someone makes a milspec one for government contract. Even 25 years ago or more when I got my 3 ton floor jack there was nary a domestic manufacturer to be found, even at Sears.

And yes, given the way business operates in China it is likely whomever made/makes the Snap-on jack likely sold the details to their neighboring company. That happens when companies go offshore to have something made.