Land Rover Facebook groups.

[Jimmy]

I'm worried about getting that highlift jack off there without breaking the windshield. Who puts that there?

I've taken to calling all the crap people bolt to their vehicles as "flair" paying homage to the movie "Office Space". It seems really out of control these days, since it seems it's more for appearances than purpose. Specifically on those jacks, I've always found a way to store it out of the weather since I've seen them work poorly (or not at all initially) due to being stored outside. One of the reasons I carried a can of WD40 offroading was to lube up others' jacks so they'd work when needed.

 

[Blueboy]

I've taken to calling all the crap people bolt to their vehicles as "flair" paying homage to the movie "Office Space". It seems really out of control these days, since it seems it's more for appearances than purpose. Specifically on those jacks, I've always found a way to store it out of the weather since I've seen them work poorly (or not at all initially) due to being stored outside. One of the reasons I carried a can of WD40 offroading was to lube up others' jacks so they'd work when needed.

If you leave a HiLift jack on the vehicle all the time no doubt it is for show. When actually off roading attaching it on an ARB is a good spot. Then take it off when day or trip is over.

The storage of the spare on a roof rack is the one that also gets me. It is pain already getting the tire out of the RRC or off the back of the D1.

 

[discostew]

Yeah what he said. And look how far that one is from the windshield.
If somebody wants to buy that thing you better go do it. It’s gotta be worth 4 grand by now.

 

[rovercanus]

There is actually a Discovery LS swap facepage. https://www.facebook.com/groups/769001164490059
Probably discussing how to make the dash lights go off. "Just needs a tune up".

 

[robertf]

There is actually a Discovery LS swap facepage. https://www.facebook.com/groups/769001164490059
Probably discussing how to make the dash lights go off. "Just needs a tune up".

has anyone actually completed a swap that was capable of driving across the country and back with the AC on and dash lights off?

 

[p m]

Hi-Lift jack is a topic that merits its own thread, I think.
Everybody with a shiny new Hi-Lift bolted to the outside of their vehicle knows all there's to know about hundreds of uses for one.
Nobody I ever met used their jacks as a come-along; I have helped a guy to do it once, and it was back-wrenching hard and incredibly dangerous.
The only factory use for one - lifting a vehicle - is also a sore subject since most vehicles don't have a single place under which it could be used.
In this respect, jack maintenance - or lack of it- takes the last place in related conversation.
It becomes funny when there's a two-ton something flapping in the breeze on the over-extended jack, and the owner is desperately trying to flip the direction lever and make the dust/mud-covered pins move.

 

[robertf]

this is all they are good for

 

[ERover82]

The last time I used a Hi-Lift was to fix a shitty camper who's stick frame was falling apart after doing the arctic circle. That's what they best for, farm and shop use where you wish you had a better tool, but all you've got is this ancient heavy contraption that gets the job done, but you know it wants to kill you along the way. Whenever I see one mounted front and center at the strip mall I think it must be to attract dick, bags and bags of dick.

 

[MM3846]

There are definitely times where the only tool that works is a hi-lift jack, but you have to have been a real dunce to get yourself into one of those positions. Been there, even a properly maintained hi-lift is scary af.

 

[rover rob]

my hi-lift got its most use when I used it to string hi tension wires for a electric fence for my horses then to pull out the t-post when they were gone years later. works awesome for those chores.

 

[Blueboy]

Got the compact 4wd tractor stuck in a hidden bog while cutting the fields. Dragged the mower off with the Rangie winch. Then used the hi-lift to raise the wheels and stuck old aluminum ladders under them. The jack fit perfectly into the wheel edge. First time actually thought so this is what it was designed for!

 

[rovercanus]

I've used mine to winch before. It's a great alternative if you have nothing else.
I've never had or seen a come along that worked to extract a vehicle.

 

[discostew]

my hi-lift got its most use when I used it to string hi tension wires for a electric fence for my horses then to pull out the t-post when they were gone years later. works awesome for those chores.

Yeah pulling up fence posts is a job the thing does best.

 

[Blueboy]

Yeah pulling up fence posts is a job the thing does best.

Its also good for lifting up farm implements as well.

 

[rovercanus]

 

[p m]

I've used mine to winch before. It's a great alternative if you have nothing else.
I've never had or seen a come along that worked to extract a vehicle.

Tirfor.

https://www.hoistsdirect.com/shop/3485

 

[rovercanus]

Tirfor.

https://www.hoistsdirect.com/shop/3485

I mean affordable outside the Expedition Exchange group. At that price it would be cheaper to let your truck sink into the mud and fossilize and buy a new one. Put it this way, I've never run across one on the trial that works.

 

[p m]

I mean affordable outside the Expedition Exchange group. At that price it would be cheaper to let your truck sink into the mud and fossilize and buy a new one. Put it this way, I've never run across one on the trial that works.

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[robertf]

I let the smoke out of the warn version of that dragging a d1 up the driveway

garage floor now has a winch bolted to it

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Dragged the mower off with the Rangie winch. Then used the hi-lift to raise the wheels and stuck old aluminum ladders under them.

So I can only assume you were bored with using the winch?