Bring along Tire Jack suggestions

Bruce Adams

Bruce Adams

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Is there any advantage of carrying a Bottle Jack versus a Scissors Jack for an "on the road" tire change opportunity?
I also have the sheet metal A-17080-B1 Model A jack as a back-up under the front seat in case it is needed.
Thanks
 
Does you bottle jack have some sort of saddle at the top will safely hold the axle?
In my car, I have a jack I picked up at a flea market for a few bucks: It sort of resembles the ones that came with our cars, but could have been made any time between the 30's and the 70's.

Doug
 
Your restoration diary is excellent. It is a great help to some of us who are attempting to restore a's with little mechanical background. Thanks
 
lwannem said:
Your restoration diary is excellent. It is a great help to some of us who are attempting to restore a's with little mechanical background. Thanks
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Thanks, I'm glad it was helpful. You inspired me to add another entry just now.

Doug
 
I carry a bottle jack in the A. I welded a 3" length of channel iron to the pad on top of the jack. The width of the channel iron is just wide enough to cradle the front axle. It also will cradle the rear axle housing. I also carry a piece of 12"x16" sheet metal to place under the jack. It works great when on gravel or unstable ground.
 
I have a Dreadnaut scissor jack with a REALLY big base & it even has direct or 6 to 1 reduction for this ooold 77 1/2 year ooold sissy! Bill W.
 
I just use the original tool kit jack, the screw type, I have both the cast version and the sheet metal version with the folding handle ---the ratchet type I wouldn't use, if the year of your car allows the screw type---or you don't care for judging standard originality ---the little bottle jacks made today in the lower price range I wouldn't trust to work when it was most needed---and I like the ability to push the jack under the car with the handle and crank it up ---with the bottle jack you need to get under the car to get to the rear axle to place and pump it

In 40 years of diving the A I have only had to use the jack 2 times, both time the same tire
 
I have a jack from a '92 Ford F150 (a small gear drive jack) and cut down the standard fold up crank - it fits in my 'tool box' in the back of the pick-up.
An A is not nearly as heavy as a modern truck, so this raises it up pretty easily
 
I carry an old bottle jack from a '97 Jeep Cherokee.

I have used it three times:

1. To help a stranded motorist (modern car) replace a flat (they did not have a jack)
2. On a 1929 Chevy I was hanging with on a weekend drive (replaced a flat)
3. On my car to see if it would work.

tt fits nicely in my Tool bag so what the heck.
 
In my main tour car, I carry a bottle jack and a small floor jack. I've never used the floor jack but I did loan it once to a fellow Model Aer several hundred miles from home.
 
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