URGENT! Do this to your Replacement Harbor Freight RECALL Jack Stands...NOW! + More Testing 

Nothing can ever be truly foolproof, because fools can be surprisingly ingenious.

Don’t listen to the hate man, you clearly know what you’re talking about, people just hate cuz they don’t like who they are. I’ve watched a couple of your videos now and you do a great job and it’s all nicely edited. Keep it up!

I've seen guys climb under autos just using a jack, while the jackstands sit in the corner of the shop collecting dust. I always use both if i can.

Great information! I always leave my jack under my car when I need to go under it just in case a stand fails, that way it falls onto the jack instead of on me. You can never be too careful when working under a large chunk of metal that weighs thousands of pounds and could easily crush you.

on this video you actually showed the difference vs. the old stand that failed, again thank you, keep up the good work.

Thank you for posting and sharing!!❤❤

Very informative and worthwhile safety video but I think most viewers overlooked your effort to match your Go-Go boots to the color of the truck. It's these fine touches that really make the video. It just plain works. 👍

Wow! Thanks for explaining!

Thank you for doing this. This is a great service you're involved with. It makes me nervous to use any jack stands. I never really thought about what would happen if this stand fails. With that being said if I'm lifting and supporting one side of my vehicle I try to double or triple up on safety. Again thank you for this.

Nice videos. We have like a dozen hf Jack stands at work bout to check them all. Thanks for the heads up

Very informative video, even 2 years later! Keep it up

Just came across this. Have had a pair of these for awhile, and they always felt a little sketchy compared to ones I learned on with simple pin. Taking them back to HF tomorrow! Great info. Thank you.

I didn’t know that, thank you!

What youre saying makes absolute sense and im sort of dumbfounded by the fact that i havent looked at the teeth of my jack stands as well as i should of i just didnt think too much about it so im glad you made this video mine were bought at autozone and those dont have any issues im aware of but ill look at em

Thanks for posting this safety review video.

The 6000# rating is for a pair of those stands, not one. They are to be used AS A PAIR to support one end of a vehicle. The directions say to BEND the stop tabs, not hit them with a hammer (peen them). They can be bent by inserting a flat blade screwdriver at the bottom of the U and prying the screwdriver handle upward. If done this way the paint film will stretch without breaking. The safety feature of the stop tab is not hidden from anyone who can read. It's on the jack and in the Important Safety Information of the Owner's Manual in the Assembly section. The directions say to INSPECT THE JACKS EACH TIME BEFORE USE. There were two jack stand recalls for HF jack stands that were defectively manufactured by Jiaxing Golden Roc Tools Company due to worn tooling. The improved posts were the result of HF going to a different supplier. The posts of ratcheting jack stands are cast iron, not "pot metal". Cast iron in compression is slightly elastic, ductile and strong, not brittle, which is why all blacksmiths anvils are made of it. The basic design of the pawl/post system is such that the impact of the pawl is on order of 20-30 lbs or less when roughly lifted, it does not come close to the force applied by a ton of truck with a man bouncing on the bed.

Shipping is a huge chunk of the total cost in these, so yeah, they want to minimize the size of the box as much as possible. It wouldn’t surprise me if shipping costs more than the total manufacturing cost.

If you got a fold or dent ( that's not factory) in the stand . .. toss it

I checked out my red 3 ton pair earlier and they are good, not part of the recall, great video,lot of valuable info,and damn dude, you really tried to make that truck fall

been doing this to jack stands as long as i can remember! keeps you from losing the anvil too. i've needed to get rid of more stands than id like due to someone else losing the anvil or stand and only having one or the other

My craftsman stands needed that tab bent in also. I did that first thing 10 years ago.

I have never liked these tiny looking stands. I use my dads old usa made stands which have a wider top piece. I think US Jack's bought that company though but still made here. I'm just glad I have them. I take care of them now.

Trophy goes to my neighbor's friend who put jack stands on top of metal ramps. No, seriously. Told him - Buddy, You gonna die. He smiles. 5 min later *BOOM !* He's standing next to the car White Faced. I Asked him if he wanted help getting the jack stand back on the ramp...

*LONG* time ago, I had jack stands from a FLAPS named "Wheels" (1988) that came with roll pins, you installed DIY, in the bottom end of anvil, in the hole. That retained the anvil. To this day, the hole is still produced on new models, sans pins in box & no mention. Strange.🤔

God, I was in you tube and I see this video, my god, harbor freight should send at least a phone call, I got this jacks. Thanks you you may save my life.

PSA! The replacement RED stands have been recalled also. Faulty welds. I was just @ H.F. today 7/7/20.

Just gotta say, that’s some nice green grass.

That's exactly how I am when I'm working on my cars outside. The cartoon at the beginning of the video. Looks like me to 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I just remembered the college auto class has 2 sets of those for freshman but I've seen it first hand people will put them all the way out to the top

Man I saw those hackberry Reboks and thought that guys from Louisiana and then noticed the license plate. Good luck on the upcoming storm.

I finally got round to returning my 3 ton HF jack stands. They gave me a new pair which has a locking pin to insert after setting the height. Seems to work fine. Only the second HF tool I have returned in almost 40 years. The first was a coil spring compressor whose threads failed.

Good video..Make sure you have a saftey slide pin...check teeth depth..😊

Them some fancy lookn boots you gat there mister!

I returned mine under the recall and spent money on Northern Tool double locking jack stands. I dont trust HF with my life.

My preferred jack stands are my dad's old ones with a U shaped hardened steel pin that goes through and holds them up. Nothing is going to make them come sliding down

I've seen the welds around the top crack, which caused the base to buckle--a full-on collapse--but I've never seen that shear pin go. He was lucky that he had his wheels under the car when it buckled...although losing a set of near-mint 15x8" Vette's (obviously a few years back) didn't impress him much, he did keep both his arms, so he couldn't complain too much. (But we all know he did, right? For DAYS...gawrsche...) I think the reason yours never failed or slipped was that you used them as a pair. He never did...he weren't uhzachaly no kinda uppity-ejamacaytud brainocologist or a "propur thinkamatician" or nothin', if you acquire my lateral slippage. d;o)

Wow buddy having those stands and a spare tire bouncing around the bed old my truck would drive me nuts althpugh ill admit i generally have the plastic bed liners in the bed and yes kicking or bumping a stand is common if you are working under a vehicle especially for us older guys that still use Creepers

I just took my jack stands back to harbor freight yesterday lol.

Measure the release between the two of them with a spring scale...

I would have liked to see if the pin shears (as it should) before the pawl becomes disengaged. (Put something like a pipe over the release lever to apply more force.) But, I assume that you probably don't want to damage your stand. - Anyways, good video; good information.

Might make a pressure treated plywood pyramid (truncated at the top, and wide enough at each layer as to almost touch the inner walls/cage of the jack stand) spacer to fit inside the cage/body of the jack stand, so that if the teeth or pawl ever did fail, the anvil would only fall a millimeter or 2 down onto the plywood (stacked) pyramid (glued and screwed together for easy handing). The pyramid would be made to fit snug under the bottom of the anvil-arm, to a set desired height that would be chosen to be used all the time (or could leave the layers of plywood stacked loose to allow different heights). Also, maybe an inlay/flush section of 3mm sheet steel about 4" x 4" to spread the impact of the bottom of the anvil arm might be a good idea too, so that if the teeth or pawl fail, the sudden force of the anvil dropping down wouldnt split the plywood pyramid. Just an idea, don't quote me on any of it

I like dem cajun reeboks

I was taught when a car is on jack stands you slide the tires under the car and leave the jack under the car even with stands if you are under it

I don't use jack stands. I built stackable 2x4 stands. I saw them used for boats about 25 years ago. You could support a tank in the middle with these and it wouldn't put a dent in the stands.

You mentioned getting a replacement that is American made in the previous video. Have you found replacements yet? It would be good to compare the defective unit, the replacement unit, and what you consider a safer better made unit not from Harbor Freight.

Great follow up from the previous video about these stands. I didn't mention about that tab in my comment on the last video. I see that your stands have a warning sticker about bending that tab in. IF people would read the directions/safety instructions that come with there tools, a lot of injuries could be avoided! I have bumped my stands quite a few times while under the car breaking bolts loose, torqueing bolts & sliding out from under the car on a creeper. I'm always a where of where I'm at & where my stands are placed but sometimes they just can't be avoided.

Learned something from your video, never knew about bending the safety over on a jack stand! Have religiously used jack stands! We always put the weight on the stands, and then see if we can shake it off before we crawl under. No since trusting your life to a 10 cent o-ring in a hydraulic jack.....so to speak. Had a buddy that died that way! :(

Thanks for the video. Were you expecting a flood later that day?? Lol. J/K

Yup didn't know that tab wasn't pushed in already and had a bar fall on my foot lol.

I’ve known that for years. I’ve have owned other ratcheting stands and you have to bend those stops over

The lesson here is DO NOT BUY anything @ H.F made out of metal.

Harbor freight sells products that are already made by another company/manufacturer. So other stands from other companies are also affected. And to prove my point my old white/orange stands from harbor freight have a Part number that when I traced it came back as performance tool.

I returned my 3 ton stands to harbor freight and they didnt have any to replace them with so, I ended up walking out with a gift card. I had plans to work on my car that same day and I ended up going to autozone and purchasing a set of 4 ton stands at almost twice the cost of the harbor freight ones. The autozone ones look just as bad or worse than my recalled stands I returned. Interested to see if they have the same issue as the harbor freight ones. Hopefully my car doesn't fall and kill me. Have to get this exhaust finished. I've been leaving my hydraulic jack under the vehicle with light tension on it in case I have a stand fail.

I have these exact harbor freight 6 ton grey jacks. Been using them for at least 6 years never realized that there was once a recall on them and was never once afraid to use him and never once have I pushed that stupid pin in on mine to keep the top from coming out I just know enough not to go that high The reason why I didn't is because they won't fit on my shelf in one piece if I take them apart to store them. I would think common sense would prevent people from going that high with any jack stand. I just checked mine too to see if the paws are wore down when you mentioned the soft metal and mine are still in excellent condition

The side welds fail too, they split

When returning the old defective stands to harbor freight do I have to return them to the same harbor freight location or does it not matter?

Well - you sure put that thing to a test! That truck and the jack were both rocking hard. It actually builds more trust than fear provided the jack stand is not flawed. Mine don't have the tab for locking the center post, it's actually a screw and figuring that I know how to use jack stands I never read the small manual that came with it, After about 8 years as I was looking to see if my stands are affected by the recall I found the manual online and that's when I found out about the screw. When I checked the screw was not set on any of my stands - they are now! By the way, what broke off of your jack handle when you were using it to bang on the release lever? Good job on the video!

Im gonna make wood cutouts to fit under the anvil, so if it ever slips it has nowhere to go and stay in place. I wanted to make a metal rod to hold it in place but I couldn't figure out where to put it.

@8:40 was not expecting you to get on the bumper. lol

Ole son wearing some Manchac Reebox

I don't see anything wrong with you kicking the stand. You were trying to prove a point. Those stands are dangerous. Great video's man. Thank you!

7,000 pound truck, ?????? Jiggles it like Jello. I respect your concern, though. Good looking out. Thanks

Wow, neither of mine have the tabs bent.

I think the big deal is if your crawling around underneath the car and hit the stand with your foot is wear the danger is.

Im just goofin. New boot googin.

JB, was the\at older Jack Stand the 61197 or the newer one the 62393?

I have some i keep them outside under the porch mine are rusty and they don't like to latch up unless I spray them with wd40

The inside of the new is also not square but the handle is placed at a lower angle.

Been using these cheap stands for years and never really thought about just how cheaply they are made but after the HF recall and looking at other jack stand failures I bought 4 Esco stands to replace them.

I'm going to check my old craftsman Jack's and buy some us Jack's before I get my next truck. We call them boots wanchese bedslippers where I live haha

Another tip just because its rated for 2 tons doesn't mean you should use 2 tons. Learned that one the hard way. Strong believer of the 6 tons now.

Send one of the old and one of the new to the "Hydraulic Press Channel".

At 11:00 I see that you have MasterLock - please look at the channels of "bosnianbill" and "LockPickingLawyer" for the opinion on them.

As far as I know there is a recall on the replacement jack stands also due to a bad weld or something another

harbor freight doesn't even sell the red ones any more. now have to pay the difference for the Daytona which is a better product.

An interesting experiment would be to test the ultimate load. 6 tons is 12,000 lbs with a 150% safety factor they should support up to 18,000 lbs. The tiny engagement areas of the pawl and teeth may not support rated loads. I have a set damn it. I damn myself because I could tell they were garbage when I bought them, and did it anyway.

Awesome vid man very informative n fuck anyone that gives you shit they just hatin

Just looking at that hitch makes my shins hurt

They just recalled some of the new jack stands too

I store mine separated, they stack nice and take up much less space.

I have always had a personal rule that I would never buy anything related to safety, or anything that I need to work 100% as designed or intended, from Harbor Freight. My thought process is that, everyone already knows that their stuff is cheaper due to lower quality materials and manufacturing standards, so knowing all of that already, would I really want to buy jack stands from them to support a vehicle that I'm going to crawl under? Even when using decent quality jack stands, like some of the other guys on here, I'll use two jack stands under the same side of the car. Engineers make things redundant all the time, especially if they know that having a failure could be fatal.

I've broken that roll pin before.

I was using cheap Chinese stands like the HF failure version working under my BMW. I was trying to remove the rear big ass bolts that hold the rear shocks to the suspension. I couldn't get enough lever or support in order to get enough strength to remove the bolt with a breaker bar of all versions. Boy was i kicking the crappy jack i had under hding.my car a lot even holding it with my feet for support i. Getting a better angle of tacking that stubborn shock bolt that still wouldn't budge. Yes you can actually kick the jack stands while ur under ur car if u like it or not. I will NEVER do that with cheap shit again!

they actually nest one on top of the other

That’s a HUUUUUUGE Diff !!!!

See if the new anvil compressed as easily

If you bend those safety tabs in , then you cant use the stand at its lowest setting. Real stupid design on the post. I put a bolt through the bottom hole to kerp it secure. Ended up taking them back to HF anyway

I just saw a ghost. I had my diesel K30 balanced on those pieces of shit with the front axle out of it.

Nada como un confiable tronco debajo del auto, eso si no falla, lo peor que puede pasar es que se comprima un poco. De otra manera sólo con las torres no inspira mucha confianza la cosa.

Wow, people must check the quality of jack stands all the time because I see trucks moving like this a lot...haha. Also, you should put a popup saying these are old and these jacks are still dangerous. I'm actually thinking about putting some signs on my vehicles to spread the word. WHY THE HECK isn't HF putting huge signs out? Especially if you got a replacement the first time around.

Test the safety pin!!!! Make it shear

You would have to to a lot for a jack stand to un latch while there is weight on it, I can’t see a child bumping in to it with a ball

These bars are they made of Caste Iron they will brake my Vise Broked made of caste Iron. these bars they should be made of 100% Steel. the welding are very weak also. no way I'm going to buy these Jack cast Iron Bars made.

The new ones are junk to. The stands are splitting at the seams.

Need to grab a cheap rubber mallet for next time if you're going to do that... you'll break that jack handle.

I just purchased arcan jack stand made in India.. they seem sketchy with short teeth on the anvil

Update, the new (2024) 6 ton pair is much better than these red replacements.

Got enough locks on your hitch? lol

This video is for people like Murphy who never RTFM, probably because they can't read.

I didn't do this and had the anvil fall out and dented my hood.😡😢