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where is the best place to buy hi-lift jack mounts for your roof racks, or is it best to fab up your own.

cheers

Kaymar Engineering make them AFAIK, probably available from ARB.

The bigger question, though, is why on earth you'd want to put all that weight up on the roof rack? Highlift jacks are close to useless and dangerous at the best of times, putting one right up there makes it even more dangerous by increasing the risk of rolling your car.

Just my 2C.

Steve.

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The unit1 wrote:where is the best place to buy hi-lift jack mounts for your roof racks, or is it best to fab up your own.

cheers

search "hi-lift jack bracket" on ebay, Rhino do one, the only thing I dont like about them is the extra 14 kilos on the roof, and when it rains , the crap off the jack goes on the paint work, can't you mount it on the spare.: I may have a bracket for the spare if you go that way.cheers.

where are you guna use the highlift on a GU?? or GQ?? or any other semi modern post 1990 vehicle??


i would go an exhaust jack over a high lift every day of the week mate. I carry an exhaust jack as part o f my standard recovery equipment.

Look'n 4 Mud wrote:where are you guna use the highlift on a GU?? or GQ?? or any other semi modern post 1990 vehicle??


i would go an exhaust jack over a high lift every day of the week mate. I carry an exhaust jack as part o f my standard recovery equipment.

Could use the hi-lift with the wheel-lift accessory / bull bars / rear bar / as a handwinch. They're pretty versatile if you know what you're doing with it.

Andres wrote:

Look'n 4 Mud wrote:where are you guna use the highlift on a GU?? or GQ?? or any other semi modern post 1990 vehicle??


i would go an exhaust jack over a high lift every day of the week mate. I carry an exhaust jack as part o f my standard recovery equipment.

Could use the hi-lift with the wheel-lift accessory / bull bars / rear bar / as a handwinch. They're pretty versatile if you know what you're doing with it.

Hi mate, i agree that a Hi Lift jack can be used in all of those applications, no doubt. But in this modern world, Why Would You??

The hi lift jack was invented during the second world war i reckon?? (guess) long before the development of kinetic energy was discovered and the Modern Snatch strap was invented.

Recoveries back then were pull it with a Chain or jack it with a Hi Lift. Certainly vehicle mounted 12v winches were only a dream, Probably not even a dream yet!!

Anyone in the bush with even a basic amount of modern recovery gear would not even consider unbolting the Hi Lift off the door or the roof to actually use in anger.

Further, a Hi Lift jack is a very mechanical device, it should be kept well maintained (regularly serviced and tested) Free from exposure to Dust and dirt which will foul its operation (not hanging on a door ) and, are Bloody Heavy lumps of metal!!

Most people are looking to try and get rid a a little weight, if you are a nissan owner you are keen to remove the bulk weight of the spare off the back door, to add another 15 or 20kg of steel which you may never use is just nuts.

Dont get me wrong, the Hi Lift was a revolution in its day, but it's day is past. It is nothing more than a Bonnet emblem now.

Put a winch on the front or travel with 2 cars (you should always do this anyway) with reasonable recovery gear and you will get out of most things. As i mentioned an exhaust jack is very underrated and i would not leave home without it.

When you roll that tyre off the bead half way up the hill in the deep ruts i know it would be the exhaust jack i would grab to lift the car to sort out the problem. If i was standing on that hill with 30 people watching, i bet that all 30 would go the exhaust jack over the Hi Lift if the option was there.

Just my 2cents guys but i dont see the point of carrying one.

The unit1 wrote:where is the best place to buy hi-lift jack mounts for your roof racks, or is it best to fab up your own.

cheers

I just made one up.

I don't see that it would make the rollover risk unnaceptable depending on the vehicle and driving style (a lifted troopy is going to be more likely to fall over than a gq, jack or no jack)
My last trip had a full length roofrack almost loaded (1100x550 spacecase, tent, 5 chairs, firewood, tyre, shovel and highlift) all reasonably flat going however, but not bad either (also run 180l of fuel and 80l of water down low which would offset things)

If you have a use and can justify carrying it and are aware of the dangers, just do it.

I just recently bought a Rhino Rack Hi lift mount off Ebay for I think it was $55. My Hi lift is now mounted beside my roof top camper, on a GU Patrol.

And not wanting to get into an arguement about the pros or the cons, but I have a bullbag sitting at home as well, and thats where it almost always is, at home. I just dont use it anywhere near as much as my Highlift.