Great idea!! Another option you could cut near the end of the hook and use a battery drill. However using your idea for the jack and you already have the impact for taking the lugnuts off. I have carried a half inch impact with me for several years now and just make it a priority to check the battery level before I leave and always keep an extra one with me.
Wow! I had a Jack like this for work , I welded a 3/4 nut on the end of the Jack and I can use any extension with 3/4 socket or even a wheel wrench , ratchet, box wrench it took me less then 5 minutes to prepare and weld the nut !👍🏻👍🏻
I saw a guy leveling his converted camper van using 3 of these - he had level bubbles on the vehicle on all 4 corner and just walked around extending the jacks down until balanced...
After the Jack Collapsed, that came with our mini-van. I ordered a Small Hydraulic Jack, even has a set pin, so the Jack can’t come back down, even if it leaks. Used some Foam that came with a Computer, to modify the mounting, so it wouldn’t rattle. Now Fits perfectly, where the old Jack was.
Сколько усилий,сколько дополнительного инструмента с собой возить,а мне и заводской комплект удобен и лёгок в использовании.Порадовало обеспеченность мастерской стационарным электрооборудованием.Все есть!
Amazon sells this for less than $9. My local Home Depot has them for $14. By the time I buy a welder, grinder, sanding materials and dedicate time to make this device, the total cost would exceed $400 to make this item. It’s a simple project for someone that has the machinery and materials on hand but for many of us it’s cost prohibitive to make this item.
The best jack I've used came with my '73 VW bus. It was a screw jack that had a lug that flipped out and engaged a square tube on the chassis. It was turned with the lug wrench. With a 4-way wrench, I could spin it up and down quickly. Smaller and lighter than a scissors jack. Too bad no one uses it today.
VW design and engineering were ingenious in a class of its own. I once came across a small solar panel (approx. 8"x10") on a plastic frame, with a a suction cup on each of all four corners on the front to adhere it to the interior side of a window. It had a cable wich ended with a plug intended to fit in the cigarette lighter socket. The whole thing was manufactured by VW. I suppose it was meant to feed the voltage produced by the solar panel in through the lighter socket and distribute it to different outlets in a vehicle to connect whatever they may have thought of to be used on one of those camper-like vans. So cool and unique, all of them beautiful.
There are no surprises there. There are some serious drawbacks to doing this, of course... and there are even easier ways of accomplishing what you did here.
I used to have a Jag which had a scissor jack and a rachet. It also had 2 wheel chocks. Chock the wheels and ratchet the car into the air. Quick and easy.
As a geezer it is hard for me to use the standard scissor jacks that came with our cars. So I bought a heaver duty one that I can raise/lower with a socket and ratchet or and impact driver if I every get really lazy. New jack works great so far and I don't have any way to weld.
Not a bad idea if you use the jack on a regular basis but the time savings in use for the typical flat frequency would be much less than the fabrication time even if one had all the required tools. Simpler to twist the jack screw by hand till it picks up load and stabilizes the jack
Sorry folks - this is an incredibly complex solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Go to a junk yard and get 1 - ONE lug nut the same size as the ones on your vehicle. Weld or have welded - the lug nut on the drive end of the jack. Now - whatever turning mechanism you use on your lugs can be used to drive the jack. When we travel - I carry an electric impact. It has enough power to jack the vehicle + R&R the flat tire.
Could you use an old spark plug socket - being longer, this might remove the need for welding - ie you would cut a slot into the socket itself - or of course, just buy a scissor jack adaptor for a few pounds 😉
Pay attention if use impact wrench to driven as from my solid experience, the impact will damage the thread and bearings when the jack with load on top.
@@stevenpollard5171I'v tried it and it works just fine, but as someone has already commented, carrying around a impact wrench to change a tire is not necessary for most people. To me the ratchet is compact and easy to store and no battery to worry about . Correction: I tried it on a trailer not a car.
Amazon sells the part which fits a 1/2" battery powered impact driver. Two scissors jacks and my impact driver make short work of lifting any or all parts of a car off the ground.
I understand the need of finding a solution They should have terminated the screw of the Jack with the same head of the bolts that fix the tyres Then a decent ratchet wrench would do for both tyres and the car jack
Sin tanto rollo le hice una ranura a un dado y lo uso con matraca, la ranura es para que entre el tornillo y el dado es de la medida de la tuerca que va en el gato
Using an impact on such a jack will quickly wear the threads on the jack. Fortunately I learned this with a lighter weight vehicle with the wheel still on.
If you have ever scuffed your knuckles on the ground winding those silly jacks up, you would know how useful such a device is. However, I understand there are easier ways to make one of them and they can be bought retail.
Hmmm My 1.5T scissor jack end fits a 7/8 socket perfectly. Combine it with the right fittings and an electric drill and it'll jack up stuff without going through these hoops.
Or just take a large hook, put it in the chuck of your drill, and use it to run the jack up and down. I usually toss those scissor jacks in the trash and use a floor jack. Super cheap at Harbor Freight, yard sales, or those Salvation Army Thrift stores.
Veszélyesek ezek a kisipari emelők. Az alsó és felső fogasívek gyengék, 2 mm-es lemezből vannak préselve, meghajlanak befelé és az emelt teher lezuhan.
I can change a tire faster than you took to make this thing. And I change the tire as many times as you've made this little device. I've been driving for over 35 years.
Meh. Video was meant for bored guys with well-equipped workshops. Both of the jacks that came with my cars already have ends that can be fitted with a socket, in case you're just an average person with an average job and an average workshop.
Seems like over kill for the amount of times you may need to change a flat on the road. Keeping an impact wrench in the car for this purpose seems a waste of a tool - unless you have two.
The second he got the welder out i knew this wasn't any use at all to me. I am pretty certain i could knock something up that does the job. Cut a slot in an old socket for instance.
Hard to believe we were doing this about forty years ago now...course there no RU-vid then to show people the blindingly obvious.. look forward now to seeing the square wheel idea that prevents a vehicle from running away down hill if you forget the put the handbrake on..
