Store them flat on the floor as designed to use. If you hang them
vertically on the trailer wall, the hydraulic fluid migrates to somewhere
internally
and you loose jacking height till it flows back. This is true of steel jacks
also.
Been there, done that...
Generally, you get what you pay for.
Clark
In a message dated 8/8/2006 7:54:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
atenglish@mindspring.com writes:
I have the 'nicer' Craftsman jack and the cheaper Harbor Freight jack and
both leak down fairly quickly. It is more of an incentive to get the jack
stands in place. Neither leaks externally.
Alan T
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
>Sent: Aug 8, 2006 4:23 AM
>To: fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: [FOT] aluminum jacks
>
>I see that harbor Freight has the price for aluminum floor jacks down
>to $69.95 on an internet special sale. I have one of those jacks that
>I purchased four years ago for $230. I have been pleased with it but
>it does have a leakage problem under certain conditions.
>
>If anybody has purchased one of these in the last year or so, have
>you had any quality issues?
>
>uncle jack
Clark
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