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At 10K miles I rotated tires. The stock jack had trouble lifting the front axle in the position where I placed it (I was going to lower the axle on a jack stand). <font color="red"> I'm guessing the jack goes into a ratchet mode when the weight limit is exceeded, and that's just what it did. </font> [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] Then after that it wouldn't lift the other side of the truck at all. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] I couldn't believe that Ford would put such an inadequate apparatus on a Super Duty truck! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smokin.gif[/img]
I thought, "What if I had a 4,000# cargo load in the bed. That Fiat jack wouldn't even begin to budge the axle under a load of firewood out in the boonies." What's with the Ford engineers? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img]
I resorted to setting a 6 ton bottle jack in its place behind the rear seat.
__________________ Lance Driver,
2005 F350XLT Super-Duty 4X4 Crew-Cab Long Bed w/ 6.0L & 5-speed TorqShift. Totes a 10' 9" Lance Camper
At 4k miles, I got a flat from a nail in the sidewall. I tried using that worthless thing but I could not get it to even reach the rear axle. I borrowed the neighbors car and bought a real jack that I always keep in the box now.
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2003 F-350 Crew Cab, V10, 4X4 ESOF, 4 Speed Auto, Long Box, 3.73 Regular Axle, heavy duty front suspension with W code springs, SRW, Lariat options package- Leather seating for six, cruise, heated seats, single disc player, Chrome tubular cab steps, keyless entry, full power. Newly added- Prodigy brake controller.
And TTT mirrors with heat and turn singal.
Also- Wireless keypad, Century Royal Series Truck Topper and Putnam Class V Trailer Hitch.Truck Photos
Recently turned 32,000 miles.
I got an OE jack from the dealer that is a hydraulic telescopic bottle jack, no screw out end like most cheapy bottle jacks, totally telescopic, has a foot or so of travel. I think it comes on some 350's, maybe even 450's but it is major heavy duty, fits pretty much where the old screw jacks did.
The part number is 3C3Z-17080-BB. Cool lookin' jack, painted yellow with the FORD oval emblem cast into the base. I think it cost me like $50 or so, not bad.
I keep a decent-sized hydraulic bottle jack in the toolbox. And any time I tow a trailer, I haul the 3.5 ton floor jack - along with a 2' x 4' piece of 5/8ths plywood for a base in case I need it in a mudhole or sand trap.
I rarely need either jack, but when you need it, you need it now.
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My Sierra Blanca is a '99.5 PSD CrewCab hot-rod Towing Machine! BTS tranny; TurboRamAir intake and 4" stainless turbo-back exhaust; DP-Tuner tunes flashed into an Edge Evolution tuner; ISSPRO EV gauges and TTM; AIC; SP-Diesel exhaust brake and torque converter controller. I special-ordered it new and plan to drive it until it quits.
It is a matter of principle that no manufactuer will include a usable jack with the vehicle.
"Scew extension" on a jack does not automatically qualify it as cheap.,
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At 4k miles, I got a flat from a nail in the sidewall. I tried using that worthless thing but I could not get it to even reach the rear axle.
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It has a screw out extision on the top you know.
Wayne B
__________________ 2000 F-250 XLT PSD 4X4 ESOF Auto, SC, LB, Gauges, Mag-HyTech Trans Pan & Rear End Cover, <font color="red"> (((XM))) Inside</font>, ATV Racks w/ Two Kawasaki Prairie 400 4X4's sitting on them, 25' Rockwood TT. Ashburn, Va. Member # 103 Pictures
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