My nearly 30 year old Powerbuilt 3-1/2 ton floor jack has gotta go. It's been leaking and I cannot find a complete kit for it. I can pay $30 for two O-rings but the rest or the seals, wiper etc are not available so I'm not going that route. It's unfortunate cuz it's been a real beast and very stoutly built. Seems like the reality is the HF "Daytona" 4 ton is probably the best option/price. Any thoughts or advice?
Need a floor jack...Harbor Freight or???
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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 $$$,,
So, the Northern one came home,,,
After checking the price at HF,, I buzzed the one mile over to Northern Tool,,
The one at Northern looked better built, and was 30% less $$$,,
So, the Northern one came home,,,
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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.
When it eventually does I'll go get a Daytona jack.
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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.
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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.
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The parking lot sale was extended this weekend if anyone missed last week.
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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. 🤷♂️
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Few do. Use a chunk of 4x or 6x on the jack.
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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.
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They make a 24" high lift one now that I use to for full size pickups. Even my old ones lifts at frame for doing brakes I just did.
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Thanks to MTB98 for the heads up. Just scored a 3 ton Super Duty for $50 off this morning. They are hard to find tho...got a yellow one at a "rural" HF store about an hour away and it was the last one they had in any color except for the displays which I'm not sure if they sell or not. The date on the box was 11/8/2022 so I'm guessing it'd been there a while. Still sad I cant repair my old one...
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. 😁
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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!
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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?
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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.
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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!
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Each of my HF floor jacks have performed great for years. I don’t have a motorcycle but that Pittsburgh jack has been useful picking up bulky boxy objects as well as the axles. The Badlands jack has larger wheels for traversing grass or gravel and is kinder to asphalt driveways but has a separate trick for maneuvering by using the handle and rear wheels. Never pay full price and catch them on parking lot sales or super coupons.
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