Jack lift questions

I assume most of our trucks are lifted here. What kind of jack lift do you guys carry in the vehicle ( when tire blown on the road). Is the stock jack lift good with 3” lift? Is stock spare wheel good to run with 33s wheels in case of emergency?

 

Even with 33" tires your diff and a-arms are only 1.5" higher than stock, any jack works. Suspension doesn't change jacking points unless you jack from the frame.

That said I bring a travel bottle jack with me when I'm adventuring.

 

Run that by me again,

 

Lift points are arms and diff, a lift kit doesn't raise those.

Tires move diff and arms away from the ground.

Stock 31" tire vs 33" is only 1.5" higher from the ground.

Edit. See your manual.

No one I work with would ever lift it from the frame, nor would I. Takes too long and its unstable.

There's actually a 5th secret spot on the center member as well.

 

Arms? There is something I am missing.

 

Lower control arms, you want to jack from the lower point, its more stable.

 

You really just need 2 2x4 pieces just in case. And swap out your spare tire for the same 33”. You don’t want different ratios. You can damage the gears.

 

I would in a pinch for sure but the actual front "jack points" are not easy to figure out where Toyota is saying to put the jack. IMO

 

I agree, I would never have thought to jack it from there, but I suppose they don't like the arms for their angle.

I just did a bunch of work on a Tacoma and Xterra at home using jacks and stands and never came close to jacking from the frame haha.

On a hoist, the forward Toyota positions are perfect and I use them daily. You jack the rear right before the frame curves up for weight distribution.

 

Where the picture in the manual shows is not the lower control arms. IMO...I could be wrong. I really just want to understand because I have no friggin idea what the hell the photo in the manual is trying to indicate.

 

It's the frame 100% They want a solid surface to jack from.

 

Yeah, I am saying, under your truck maybe something to jack from in that location? Under my truck, nothing.

 

Nothing lower than the frame I should say.

 

Toyota does do a really great job of pointing out exactly where to jack the rear of the truck.

 

That’s good advice. I know what it’s like to put on a smaller spare and attempt to drive in 4hi on an icy road…. Bad news. However, you CAN run a mismatched tire in 2wd as long as you have open diffs.

 

If you have a long ways to go, I would put the smaller tire in up front. We start off 100 miles to town out here, so, that has happened a time or two...

 

I keep a hi-lift jack base in the compartment behind my rear passenger seat. Fits perfectly and can work as a good base for the factory bottle jack. Raises it about 2".

 

Pls confirm...is it ok to lift a front wheel from the lower control arm? That way it seems you can get the front tire off the ground without having to overcome the entire length of front suspension. That’s not what the manual says, but would be much easier.

I’ll be changing the center caps on my FN wheels and need to push them out from the back...so each wheel has to come off.

 

The bottle jack is fine. I used a HiLift jack once in 11 years. To pull a root from the ground. Used the bottle jack half a dozen times on the trail with success. Cut some 12" squares of thick exterior grade plywood for a good jack base, and keep in the truck.

 

I carry a 2"x6" board to throw under my bottle jack, in case of emergency. Never used it, as I have a proper jack at home