I just picked up the 3 ton low profile jack from CT. It's on sale this week for $119. I have the one that caboose posted a link to and it's an awesome jack and has worked well for me. The only reason why I bought a new one is because we bought a CRV and I needed more height. The new one also goes down to 4 inches which is low enough for my lowered Acura tl.
I have the aluminum trolley jack that Canadian Tire sells for $200. I got it from Harbor Freight under a different brand name for $60 (but its the same jack). It works well and is nice and light.
This one.
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...ofile+Racing+Jack.jsp?locale=en&stop_mobi=yes
Good point. I do wish it could lift about 2" higher.
I have the aluminum trolley jack that Canadian Tire sells for $200. I got it from Harbor Freight under a different brand name for $60 (but its the same jack). It works well and is nice and light.
This one.
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...ofile+Racing+Jack.jsp?locale=en&stop_mobi=yes
I have that jack from h. Freight. Good jack
I dunno...see how the front roller is narrow and fits inbetween the jack frame rails? The narrow design doesnt stabilize the jack from side to side movements as much as a wider jack.
I've seen cars start to move fwd or backwards and the jack at 90 degrees to the movement started to tilt to its side. No bueno.
If your wheels are chocked Im not sure how you're getting sideways movement.
I dont cut any corners when im jacking up my car. Wheels chocked and jack stands ALWAYS.
simple trigonometry.
Jack the front of the car in the air, and due to the fact that the lenght of the car is set, it WILL want to move forward on the rear wheels, or the jack will want to slide back...thats if the jack is in line with the wheels and you are jacking high enough. Seen it happen hundreds of times when jacking ALL my cars...
Chock your wheels, jack one side of the car with the jack perpendicular to the wheels and couple of things will happen, you will try and pull the rear wheels towards the jack, you'll see them start rolling, the jacking point will slide if you're just using a flat part of the chassis and a jacking pad, or the entire jack will start to be pulled towards the part of the car that is still on the ground.
I'm not pulling this out of my ***, or talking hypothetical, i have seen this happen, every single time i was jacking to a higher level than just enough to lift the wheels of the ground.
This has happened on my bimmers during engine and tranny swaps, nissans, civics, acuras, Land rovers etc etc.