useless tire jack

[exbass94]

Posting from the side of the highway: Why the F*** does Ford give you a tire jack that is too f***ing small to lift the truck up enough to get the tire off??!! I have the factory original OEM tires BTW. Waiting for my mom to bring me my floor jack from home....

 

[88_Eddie]

try lifting from somewhere else, mine has always worked fine for me

 

[exbass94]

Lift from where? The point closest to the ground is the rear axle and that's too tall. I even looked at the jacking instructions and jacked from the EXACT point they said to!

 

[88_Eddie]

oh, i was thinking you were trying to jack up the front end

 

[509lifted]

i had to do the same thing the little bottle jack they give u in the b2 doesnt work at all so i have to get a different jack when i get money instead of save up for a ring for my fiance it sucks

 

[straycat]

Posting from the side of the highway: Why the F*** does Ford give you a tire jack that is too f***ing small to lift the truck up enough to get the tire off??!! I have the factory original OEM tires BTW. Waiting for my mom to bring me my floor jack from home....

I don't know anybody who had this problem with a stock truck running stock tires. You are not using the jack in the right place?? I never had any issues with my stock trucks using a factory jack!!

 

[adsm08]

Stick a brick under the jack.

 

[doorgunner]

The 1st thing I do to my new vehicle is throw away the oem jack....then I put a good floor jack behind the seat! (lost a friend do to an oem jack/dropped a couple vehicles because of oem jacks....yea-yea--I don't know how to use them correctly....... )

 

[robertc1024]

pfft - I just had a flat in my F150. Try to figure out how to drop the full size spare. The male end of a two section extending rod poked into the cable mechanism that dropped the spare. The lug wrench also had a slot for a male end. Didn't work. At least male on male doesn't work for Ford.

 

[ZMan]

shock mount?

 

[Captain Ledd]

Pfft, you're lucky. My brother's Aveo got a flat tire and the jack they supplied him with was too TALL. Yup, didn't even fit under the car. Not even under the rocker panel to get to something structural.

I thought the shock mount was the jacking point for the rear axle.

 

[shane96ranger]

Anyone try the damn scissor jack that came with the Fox Body Mustangs? Talk about a wobbly piece of junk. That reminds me that I still need to find an alternative for that thing. I guess I should try lowering the tire on my F150 too.

 

[Andy D]

I always carry a few wood blocks to give a jack a good footing.

 

[Brandon Nootenboom]

As far as the F150 goes, Ford has an "adapter" you have to use to get it down. It should be in with the tire iron and that stuff. And as for the OEM jack not going high enough, I know in my 91 explorer the fluid had dried and or leaked out because it wouldn't go high enough either until I put more jack fluid in. But the brick is the easiest way to go

 

[pcollins]

go to walmart and get a better one. I ended up replacing (my ranger didn't have the jack when i bought it, my old one) mine with the jack from an '85 Chevy k20 and it barely lifted my truck when i got a flat. Did the job though and got me back on the road.