OK...so it's Valentines day....my wife meets me downtown for a nice dinner....of course on this day the inner sidewall of the passenger rear tire decides to get a puncture!!! Long story short...after a cab ride to rescue her...me in my suit, side of a busy road trying to jack up the darn truck and change the tire.
The LR3 in my opinion has THE WORST JACK EVER....worse than my Datsun 510 back in the day. More specifically the delicate two peice handle is an absolute peice of $$#@. Ok so maybe I had the jack slightly....and I mean ever so slightly off dead straight....which the manual says is bad. I'm slowly cranking cranking and what happens, the jack handle breaks...metal fatique and completely snaps. I'm then reduced to doing 1/4 turns of the jack with a stubby bent handle....took FOREVER.
So my question to the board...worst jack ever? and what has anyone replaced it with? Looking for a better jack handle.
The LR3 in my opinion has THE WORST JACK EVER....worse than my Datsun 510 back in the day. More specifically the delicate two peice handle is an absolute peice of $$#@. Ok so maybe I had the jack slightly....and I mean ever so slightly off dead straight....which the manual says is bad. I'm slowly cranking cranking and what happens, the jack handle breaks...metal fatique and completely snaps. I'm then reduced to doing 1/4 turns of the jack with a stubby bent handle....took FOREVER.
So my question to the board...worst jack ever? and what has anyone replaced it with? Looking for a better jack handle.