Factory bottle jack height a bit short

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I don't know if this has been covered or not yet, but the other day I left my house and the tire pressure light came on for one of my tires, it had gone down to about 30lbs. I turned right around and went home and sure enough, had a bolt head right in the middle of the tread on one tire. At first I just rolled my floor jack out of the garage but that wouldn't lift high enough. So I figured I would just use the factory bottle jack since it came with the truck and certainly should be capable of lifting it high enough. Wrong. I jacked it all the way up so it was fully extended, and it gets close but is still just a bit short on getting the tire to lift off the pavement. I'm wondering if it's the same jack that they put in all of the other 2500HD trucks, which would probably be fine for them without being lifted like our ZR2's. I really would have expected Chevy (and assuming GMC has the same issue on the AT4X) would have at least included a jack block or something for us to make sure we could lift our trucks off the ground in case of an emergency. So if any of you are concerned, you may want to put a couple small blocks of wood in your truck by your jack in case you are ever in a situation on the side of the road.
 
I've never used a factory jack on any rig I've owned. They are useless as tits on boar pig.

I've jacked a couple rentals when they ran out of talent, but it was always sketchy.

The best money I've spent on accessories is always a 6 ton bottle jack and a couple pieces of 2x4.
 
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I've always carried a floor jack with me in my trucks. I pull around a lot of utility trailers a boat and use to have a camper. We also off road side by sides. Often I need a jack at camp to replace an axle or work on the machine. So just keeping a real jack with me makes sense. I've needed it a lot. That said, I actually need to figure out a solution with the ZR2. The off road jack I had in my 1500 will not lift the HD. I already tried, lol. I have 3 floor jacks and none of them are ideal for the ZR2. Either they won't lift it or they don't lift high enough. Debating on getting a 3 ton Off road style floor jack to leave in the HD. Downside is the size and weight to lug around all the time.

I haven't been in a hurry cause I assumed the factory jack would be ok. So glad you posted this. Guess I need to move my butt and get it sorted, lol.
 
Busa Dave said:
I have carried this in several trucks. Where I am off road the bottle jack is next to useless.

https://www.proeagle.com/collections/jacks-2023/products/big-wheel-jack-the-beast
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My pro eagle jack won't even lift one corner of my HD. But mine is the 1.5 ton. That's what I carried in my 1500. Your right about bottle jacks. They don't work well in a lot of situations. That narrow base and the small metal pad at the top makes them pretty sketchy anywhere but pretty level pavement.
 
AXE said:
I've never used a factory jack on any rig I've owned. They are useless as tits on boar pig.

I've jacked a couple rentals when they ran out of talent, but it was always sketchy.

The best money I've spent on accessories is always a 6 ton bottle jack and a couple pieces of 2x4.
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This right here.

Very first thing I did was move my 12 ton bottle jack and stabilizer pad over the truck when I got it. I have a couple of 2x4 blocks as well just in case.


Side note, it Always cracked me up when I was jeeping and these jack wagons had these fancy azz 60” hi-lift jacks strapped to their jeeps and NO damn clue how to use them. Then getting all butt hurt when they slipped it and dropped their rig.
 
NullNomad said:
This right here.

Very first thing I did was move my 12 ton bottle jack and stabilizer pad over the truck when I got it. I have a couple of 2x4 blocks as well just in case.


Side note, it Always cracked me up when I was jeeping and these jack wagons had these fancy azz 60” hi-lift jacks strapped to their jeeps and NO damn clue how to use them. Then getting all butt hurt when they slipped it and dropped their rig.
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I don't like farm jacks. I don't really get why they are the cool thing to have now. I mean have one for pulling up T-posts, lol. They do come in handy from time to time. With all the options available, not what I'd pick in my truck. I see people carrying them and I don't even think they have good lift points.

I like the off road style hydraulic floor jacks. They can go pretty low to get under stuff. But with the adjustable pad extensions they can handle tall stuff too. The whole bottom has a flat plate on it, so the jack doesn't sink down to much in soft stuff. I like my Proeagle, I just wish I would have went ahead and gotten at least the 2 ton. The 1.5 won't even lift one tire on my HD.
 
securityguy said:
Love this, but out of my price range...definitely something @AXE can afford ;)
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I wouldn't fuck around with one of them clumsy ass floor jacks in the wild. A bottle jack is $40 and a couple chunks a 2x4 is free wherever they are building houses. I've jacked more shit on accident with a bottle jack than most people have on purpose with a floor jack.
 
AXE said:
You can get some accessories like this too help make the bottle jack more useful. I use these for axles and the blocks for jacking in soft soil and sand


Tri-Lynx 00015 Lynx Levelers - 10 Pack , Orange https://a.co/d/1NRei7O
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Nice to know about these accessories. Been carrying around a 6 inch and 4 inch bottle jack and 10 pieces of 10 inch plank for 20 years. More than once its saved my ass.
 
zrteton said:
Is 28" the right extended height to get these tires off the ground?
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I went out and jacked. On stock 35 inch tires 1 inch off ground. Lowest support front 14 to 15 inch ground to support. At factory lift point 19 to 20 inches from ground. You can get lower in front with a 3 ton jack at transfer case but have to remove or block between skid plate as far as I can see.
 
Wow lots of great feedback on this one guys, this is the whole point of these forums, helping each other out! I agree that typically factory jacks are not something I would prefer to use, but there are plenty of people that would expect to rely on them when in need. I'm just shocked that GM would equip our trucks with something that doesn't work on it's own even in ideal conditions.

I bought my wife a new Jeep Wrangler a couple of years ago and it has the Extreme Recon package that comes with factory 35" tires. Even Jeep thought of providing an additional lift plate/block molded to fit the underside of the bottle jack for this package because they knew the factory jack wouldn't lift high enough. I honestly think this could end up being some sort of recall eventually where GM just sends out something similar. I think we all agree the factory jack option isn't ideal, but it's supposed to at least be an option, and unless every HD ZR2 owner knows to carry some extra blocks it's not an option.
 
BradHDZR2 said:
Wow lots of great feedback on this one guys, this is the whole point of these forums, helping each other out! I agree that typically factory jacks are not something I would prefer to use, but there are plenty of people that would expect to rely on them when in need. I'm just shocked that GM would equip our trucks with something that doesn't work on it's own even in ideal conditions.

I bought my wife a new Jeep Wrangler a couple of years ago and it has the Extreme Recon package that comes with factory 35" tires. Even Jeep thought of providing an additional lift plate/block molded to fit the underside of the bottle jack for this package because they knew the factory jack wouldn't lift high enough. I honestly think this could end up being some sort of recall eventually where GM just sends out something similar. I think we all agree the factory jack option isn't ideal, but it's supposed to at least be an option, and unless every HD ZR2 owner knows to carry some extra blocks it's not an option.
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Funny that Jeep added that block to the Recon, the stock Rubicon didnt and the factory jack wasn’t even close to being able to lift It. Thats how I ended up with a few different bottle jacks.
 
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