Replacing a factory jack with Harbor Freight Badland 1.5 ton off-road jack

[Taco Ji]

Forgive my ignorance here but why not use a bottle jack instead of a bigger jack, regardless if you go with the 1.5 or 3 ton version?

Convienence.

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[Crazy Mary’s Husband]

If you want to go by 99% of the rest of the world (metric), you would be wrong. 1.5 metric tons (tonnes) = 3306.9 pounds.

1.5 short tons (Imperial) does = 3000 pounds however.

So technically you're both right. But Metric makes thinks so much easier.

How many brownies did you eat before coming up with this?

 

[bsquaredMTB]

Convienence.

How so? I figure the smaller bottle jack would be more convenient.

 

[Taco Ji]

How so? I figure the smaller bottle jack would be more convenient.

I’m not sure if you used the bottle jack before but out on the highway in the dark cold winter night it’s a lot easier and simpler to place a floor jack under your car or truck vs a small bottle jack. I’ve used both an think the floor jack wins

 

[bsquaredMTB]

No I have not. I recently used the OEM one on my wife's rav4 on the side of the highway and that was not ideal . I'm just wondering if the weight/bulkiness of the floor jack makes it more inconvenient than the size of a floor jack.

 

[bigd9247]

The OEM Toyota mechanical bottle jack is honestly one of the best jacks ever made. It's technically an enclosed multi stage screw jack. I carry a Hi-Lift base plate for mine, with a steel adapter plate that can bolt onto the Toyota jack for a snug fit in the base plate. Add a saddle adapter and some rubber pucks and it's even better.

What Hi-Lift base plate and steel adapter are you using with your OEM bottle jack?

 

[rijc99]

No I have not. I recently used the OEM one on my wife's rav4 on the side of the highway and that was not ideal . I'm just wondering if the weight/bulkiness of the floor jack makes it more inconvenient than the size of a floor jack.

The floor jack has a natural wider base and is more forgiving of bad placement.

 

[Yotota]

What Hi-Lift base plate and steel adapter are you using with your OEM bottle jack?

This plate:

https://hi-lift.com/accessories/off-road-base/

Plus a piece of 3/16 steel plate that I cut to fit perfectly in the recess on the top of that base plate. Then I drilled 4 holes in the steel to match the holes on the Toyota jack. Bolt those together with allen head cap screws, with the cap head facing down to clear the ribs on the base plate.

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