Outer Limits 4x4 Board

guys,
got a high lift jack for xmas, where is the best spot to mount a high lift on a sierra??
i was thinking spare tyre, however does anyone have any pics of conversions people have made to allow this to attach?

i think the best place you could put it is on my car

I reckon something as big and heavy as a HiLift should be mounted as low as possible..
Maybe clamped to the outside of the passengers side chassis rail.
Keeping the COG low is pretty important in a Zook.

They're best mounted in a cupboard at home. Hilifts are quite dangerous and impractical IMHO, and almost nobody knows how to use one safety*

However, if you MUST carry one (meaning you already have sliders and a front and rear bar and often go off road by yourself) then strip it down and carry the parts separately.

If you have a genuine hilift, you can remove the baseplate, the clevis, the handle and the mechanism.

If you take about 3" off the end of the bar if will fit across the tailgate, inside the car. The handle can be clipped/clamped with it. The mechanism, clevis and footplate will fit in a surprisingly small box. With the working stuff in a box it will stay clean and work when you need it to.

* hilifts just aren't safe unless the axle is chained/strapped to the chassis before the lift starts. unloading the suspension before you lift the wheel off the ground is what makes most operations with a hi lift so dangerous. I've had one for years and I don't think it's ever been used in the bush. The handle gets used a lot though.

Steve.

in the OTTO?

Mines mounted under my tray right at the back :p

I've got a home made drawer system in my Zook and the Highlift is mounted onto two bolts that poke out from the back of the drawer system, behind the front seats (18mm ply) and is held on by wingnuts that screw onto the bolts. I had to cut a couple of inches off the end of the jack to make it fit sideways inside the car, but at least its safe where it is and easy to get to.

If you don't have a drawer system, you can also bolt a couple of pieces of thick angle iron to the floor behind the front seats and secure the jack to them using nuts and bolts.

Hope this helps.

Made a little rack for mine.





I used it all the time and consider a high lift an essential recovery item.

To be fair, you do have all the barwork to make it useful though.

Steve.

I hate having mine hard mounted. Ive tried mounting it in a number of different places and the pin/clevis mechanism thing & base plate all rattle around like a bitch.
Almost like it needs to be wrapped in a towel & laid flat on the floor or something so it doesnt rattle, or like gwagensteve said, dissasembled & stored seperately, which I may look into doing when I add barwork so it can actually be used fairly safely...

and I think I only used it a couple of times in the garage in about 10 years of ownership. Now it just sits in the shed getting in the way and periodically falling on my feet when I'm getting stuff out of the shed.

Cue all the jokes about the shed and my Suzuki

Dee wrote:I hate having mine hard mounted. Ive tried mounting it in a number of different places and the pin/clevis mechanism thing & base plate all rattle around like a bitch.
Almost like it needs to be wrapped in a towel & laid flat on the floor or something so it doesnt rattle, or like gwagensteve said, dissasembled & stored seperately, which I may look into doing when I add barwork so it can actually be used fairly safely...

If you don't want it to rattle, just hook one side of an ockky strap to the hole in the footplate and wrap the strap around the mechanism and the handle, then just hook the other end to one of the holes in the bar. Easy !

Gwagensteve wrote:To be fair, you do have all the barwork to make it useful though.

Steve.

Yeah I get you, mine has decent sliders, front bar with jacking points, tray that can be jacked from and hayman reece.

Mines mounted on my rear roll bar thing(Who knows how strong it is has been layed on once..... )

grimbo wrote:


and I think I only used it a couple of times in the garage in about 10 years of ownership. Now it just sits in the shed getting in the way and periodically falling on my feet when I'm getting stuff out of the shed.

Cue all the jokes about the shed and my Suzuki

Sorry Graham, I know there were some jokes, but it was SOOOOO long ago I have forgotten them all