WARNING: Sears floor jacks blow
Ive gone through 3 of them and my current is leaking down still. For the price, replacing them every 2 years isnt bad though. They just leak down at the worst opportunity
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im with you, i wouldnt buy anything from harbor freight!! ive had my Craftsman 3ton jack for 4 years no problems at all. Craftsman is the only way to go for me
I bought one of the aluminum types for about $200 in Dec. 2004. Made in China, great. It came low on jack oil and I had to buy some to get it to work. Dec. 2005 it quits. Sears only warrantys it 90 days. Sears won't service floor jacks even though all their floor jack advertisements say "We service what we sell." you can go online and check. Sears currently doesn't offer repair parts for it and advise not to wait for them. So in other words you got a nice piece of scrap aluminum there buddy. Cost of ownership = $16.66 a month and major fustraition.
So I said "screw it". I needed another jack that day so this time I bought the Sears $70 SUV steel jack since I knew I couldn't get it repaired or buy parts and it was Sunday and NAPA was closed. Napa's jacks cost $250 or so. This was Dec. 3rd. Made in China, great. It came low on jack oil and I used some more from the bottle I bought last year to get it to work. Today, about the third or forth time I've tried to "home use" it the damn thing won't lift to the top. It's rated for 21" and gets 14". I can't put my car on stands. Guess what, it's 9 days out of warranty. Cost of ownership = $23.00 a month and fustration to the point of going out and paying what ever it costs to get a real jack that never came from a Chinese steel ship.
Sears has lost a customer, until they rectify this situation. I'm taking both of them back, IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING thank you very much, and demanding satisfaction. Something tells me I'll be waisting my time.
Vernon
So I said "screw it". I needed another jack that day so this time I bought the Sears $70 SUV steel jack since I knew I couldn't get it repaired or buy parts and it was Sunday and NAPA was closed. Napa's jacks cost $250 or so. This was Dec. 3rd. Made in China, great. It came low on jack oil and I used some more from the bottle I bought last year to get it to work. Today, about the third or forth time I've tried to "home use" it the damn thing won't lift to the top. It's rated for 21" and gets 14". I can't put my car on stands. Guess what, it's 9 days out of warranty. Cost of ownership = $23.00 a month and fustration to the point of going out and paying what ever it costs to get a real jack that never came from a Chinese steel ship.
Sears has lost a customer, until they rectify this situation. I'm taking both of them back, IN THE ORIGINAL PACKAGING thank you very much, and demanding satisfaction. Something tells me I'll be waisting my time.
Vernon
and far as hf goes as long as you there obviously low quality tools (air tools,electric tools and etc..) you will be fine, i have a assortment of tools from snap on to hf and most of my hf tools have shown to be far better then i would of thought
did he not say that he bought a craftsmen?, for the price and there reputation you would think it should be a quality jack!
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Here is hint, never leave the weight on the jack, put jack stands and release the pressure off the seals, other ways they'll give up and start leaking, now if the jack doesn't go all the way up just replace some of the lost hydraulic fluid and you are good to go...
Sears lost my respect a long, long time ago when they went from building tools that no one could break easily, to cheap tools that could be replaced cheaply. Since then I've pretty much only replaced what i had. Haven't bought anything new in a long, long time. All garbage now.
