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#16
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bottle jack?
Thanks everyone for an extremely useful site. I hold my breath every time I take the two miles of deeply rutted, deeply holed. extremely muddy, old logging right-of-way to my cabin. I don't want to put a winch on my XJ, preferring to borrow a come-along and my husky nephew. I do carry a shovel and a two-ton scissors jack which is great but I have to be able to get underneath which deep watery mudholes don't always allow. Once raised up, though, there's enough brush, branches, blow-downs and other woody material around to lay a corduroy road at right angles under the tires
So onwards to my question: is a higher-capacity bottle jack a worthwhile accessory or a higher-capacity scissors jack? Any updates to this advice?
So onwards to my question: is a higher-capacity bottle jack a worthwhile accessory or a higher-capacity scissors jack? Any updates to this advice?
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Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee (XJ)
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Thanks everyone for an extremely useful site. I hold my breath every time I take the two miles of deeply rutted, deeply holed. extremely muddy, old logging right-of-way to my cabin. I don't want to put a winch on my XJ, preferring to borrow a come-along and my husky nephew. I do carry a shovel and a two-ton scissors jack which is great but I have to be able to get underneath which deep watery mudholes don't always allow. Once raised up, though, there's enough brush, branches, blow-downs and other woody material around to lay a corduroy road at right angles under the tires
So onwards to my question: is a higher-capacity bottle jack a worthwhile accessory or a higher-capacity scissors jack? Any updates to this advice?
So onwards to my question: is a higher-capacity bottle jack a worthwhile accessory or a higher-capacity scissors jack? Any updates to this advice?
Not much surface area under those jacks either. They can get sketchy if you don't have a good foundation under it. If you can swing it, a small floor jack works great (something like a 1.5 or 2 ton).
#18
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Not all bottle jacks have those little round pads, one of mine has rectangular top, about 3/4 x 2" with upturns on the short ends. Not as good as a V, but still pretty good.
Floor jacks really aren't very good on uneven surfaces (never mind in mud holes) & one of those small ones would use most of its travel reaching the axle on an XJ, so would provide little or no lift, at least, not without a substantial block of wood.
Floor jacks really aren't very good on uneven surfaces (never mind in mud holes) & one of those small ones would use most of its travel reaching the axle on an XJ, so would provide little or no lift, at least, not without a substantial block of wood.
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