New Jack - Daytona

[rijndael]

My ~20 year old Craftsman Aluminum jack has finally started to fail. I'd like to replace it with a HF/Daytona jack. Is the Yellow version, with the 3 year warranty, worth the extra money over the Orange / 90 day warranty?

Do they offer an extended warranty with the Orange ones? If so, any idea how much it costs?

The only downside I see to the yellow one is the ~100# weight.

 

[CJ7VFR]

If your Craftsman jack is still in good shape, and is slowly starting to drop down as you jack things up, you might be able to just replace the seals and put in new hydraulic fluid to get it working again.

Check to see if the jack is leaking fluid. If it is, you might be able to fix it.

If you want a new one, getting an extended warranty is pretty much useless. No matter what happens, these warranties always seem to come with so many exceptions that they never seem to pay off. Oh, I'm sorry sir, we feel that you used the jack to lift a vehicle that was not intended to be lifted by our jack. So no warranty for you!

Jim

 

[rijndael]

The current jack is holding, but when I pump it up - in the last 25% of the stroke, it is spitting out oil at the base of the plunger. I've looked up the repair kit, and it's ~$45, so I was just looking at options to see if it's worth it repairing or moving on.

 

[rburke65]

I have an aluminum crasftsman and the 3rd time I used mine the seals blew out! Made in China.....

 

[purplezr2]

I have a the aluminum racing jacks from HF, both the small on and the larger size(2 an 4 ton maybe). They have both been good. The small one is about 11 year old and has been beat to death but works good. The larger one is maybe 4-5 years old, and other then being left outside occasionally has lived a fairly easy life. They are lighter then the Daytona line of steel jacks. I have looked at getting a Daytona long reach for working on my truck. Would be nice, wish they would come up with a 48" version of the long reach.

 

[Lucid Moments]

I have one of the orange jacks from Harbor Freight. Had it for a couple of years now. Most of the time I have had it I have treated it like absolute ****. It lives mostly outside and I have never done anything approaching maintenance to it. And it has never given me a minutes trouble. If you can't fix your current jack get the orange one and don't look back.

 

[rijndael]

I ended up getting the Yellow one for $179. It's a beast of a jack and seems to work well.

About 20 minutes after unboxing it, I managed to get my old one working as well. Now I have 2 jacks. At least tire rotations will be a lot easier without having to worry about jack stands.

 

[oldmxracer]

At least tire rotations will be a lot easier without having to worry about jack stands ????

 

[xxxstevemanxxx]

At least tire rotations will be a lot easier without having to worry about jack stands ????

He means he can just jack up two sides and do the wheel swap without getting out stands. If he was climbing underneath then stands are a must, but just changing a wheel out a jack is perfectly adequate since your outside the wheel well and not in harms way. Stock vehicles come with a jack and no jack stand for this very same purpose. It will be OK for that.

 

[Falcon67]

I have an aluminum crasftsman and the 3rd time I used mine the seals blew out! Made in China.....

LOL - my first one didn't make the end of warranty. The 2nd I've had for along time, maybe 20 years? It still only lifts about half a stroke no matter how much it gets bled. The bitty HF aluminum one works real well.

 

[gtcs]

I have an orange one; the low profile/long reach and I love it, it slides under a 3 series bimmer with a liftpoint adapter and lifts my old f250 with a 2" lift. Its been a couple of years since I bought it and it has held up great.