Replacement Wheels for Floor Jack?

[Beemer]

Curious if anyone has replaced their floor jack wheels and what material would be good for rough surfaces.
My thirty plus year old jack has been used mostly on blacktop and the steel wheels are showing some wear but moreso are not smooth traveling across the drive and jockeying into position. It takes some effort to maneuver around which is done unloaded.

I know that blacktop is not the best place to use a jack but I see at least half of the work done at my very busy tire dealer done out in the parking area on the bituminous so I'm not alone.

 

[paulsomlo]

If you're talking about the casters, try Bond: https://www.bondcaster.com/

 

[Beemer]

If you're talking about the casters, try Bond: https://www.bondcaster.com/

What rolling material would be good on the blacktop?

 

[paulsomlo]

Steel or cast iron, I would think.

 

[Steve_P]

I know that this is a little OT, but decades ago I had an asphalt driveway and had a floor jack sink in on one side during jacking. It only sank an inch or so, but it was scary; it bent the lifting portion structure of the jack, and that was it for that jack- and it was a "good" jack, one of the green Cman Japanese made ones from the 70s-80s. I was just lifting the front and one side of a passenger car or light truck, nothing more than 4000 lbs total- so 1500 lbs max. I'm sure it was a total fluke, and I've only had concrete driveways ever since, but it was definitely an "OH ****" moment.

 

[rust in the eye]

Hard surface, soft wheel, vice versa

 

[Wamsutta]

Replacement Wheels

 

[Pinemarten]

Hard surface, soft wheel, vice versa

and..........hot day, soft asphalt...........plywood under the jack!

 

[Beemer]

and..........hot day, soft asphalt...........plywood under the jack!

The good thing about living in an oak forest; the sun doesn't make it to the ground and the pavement is never soft.

 

[1982fxr]

I know that this is a little OT, but decades ago I had an asphalt driveway and had a floor jack sink in on one side during jacking. It only sank an inch or so, but it was scary; it bent the lifting portion structure of the jack, and that was it for that jack- and it was a "good" jack, one of the green Cman Japanese made ones from the 70s-80s. I was just lifting the front and one side of a passenger car or light truck, nothing more than 4000 lbs total- so 1500 lbs max. I'm sure it was a total fluke, and I've only had concrete driveways ever since, but it was definitely an "OH ****" moment.

Weren't those green ones from like Norway or somewhere?

 

[Beemer]

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Ground it out and found the answer