[TR] Car jack for Triumph Cars

[Brian Kemp]

I do similar, but without the cross beam.  I have a simple 2 1/4 ton 
floor jack from Harbor Freight that I think I paid $39 for about 20 
years ago.  I have a thin wood block/pad and jack from the center of 
front frame cross member which evenly jacks the front of the car.  I 
then add jack stands and go to the back of the car.  I have a 2x4 block 
with a channel and hole that I put on the cross member with the spare 
tire hold down hook and jack the back of the car up and put on jack 
stands.   This back block of wood puts the jack's force on the tubular 
cross member instead of the tire hold down bolt.

Don't do this method if you have a rusty frame or are concerned about 
the strength of that back cross member.  You have to remember to jack 
the front up first and down last or else the jack doesn't fit due to the 
angle of the car.

I'd love a real lift, but no way I can do that as I actually have living 
area under my garage and not enough head room.

I did notice on some of the quicklift/Ezcarlift pictures that sometimes 
they put they across the car width wise instead of length wise.  One of 
the pictures was an old Mini.  Jacking this way lets you have the lifts 
directly under the frame rails.

Brian
72 TR6, 73 GT6

On 8/28/2017 1:44 PM, Stuart Greenwood wrote:
> The left and right  main frame members  of the TR and Spitfire cars 
> are close together and this issue, I think, renders all the lifts like 
> Bendipack quick lift and Ezcarlift not suitable. With these lifts you 
> have to lift on the out riggers which are welded to the main frame 
> members and hence not the strongest part of the frame.
> Instead I bought this jack and the cross beam for Harbor Freight:-
> Inline imageInline image
>
> The cross beam can be adjusted for length and the pads on it can be 
> adjusted for height. The low profile long reach jack allows you to 
> place the cross beam on the left and right main frames at both the 
> front and rear of the car. So I jack up my TR250 at the back and 
> support with axle stands them do the same at the front. OK it iis a 
> bit more time consuming that the lifts mentioned but it is a hell of a 
> lot cheaper. I have not tried this system on the Spitfire yet but I 
> see no reason why it won't work
> Stuart A Greenwood
> TR250. 1971  MkIV spitfire
>
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