Jacking up the FX- Hydraulic Jack Adapter

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2010 White FX50S-sold
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Wayne
I posted about this on another thread and some of the guys expressed an interest and wanted the dimensions of my adapter that I made up. These dimensions can be modified to fit your jack.

This all started when I was changing my summers to winters on my FX and my GMC Crew Cab.
The factory jack sucks, is hard to use, and is downright dangerous.
I have no garage, so a hydraukic trolley jack is too big and cumbersome to drag around.

Here is my Workspace
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I had a 8 Ton hydraulic jack and wanted to make an adapter for it so that I could jack the FX up at the factory side lift points. I made up an adapter that was the same shape as the top of the factory jack and I also recessed the bottom of this adapter so it could mount over the end of the ram on my 8 Ton hydraulic jack.
Here are a Couple pics on the Hydraulic Jack.
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Here it is in action. The jack has 5" of movement, and you can jack the vehicle up with ease. It is extremely stable and you can lower it at any speed you want, from dead slow to fast.
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The only limitations are if your FX is slammed. Then you would have to drive onto a couple of 2x10 boards to get the clearance. There is also room to put your axle stands in for safety, if desired.

Here are a few views of the actual block
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The block is 2 1/2" wide x 2" deep x 1 3/4" high.
The slot on the top is 1/2" wide x 11/16" deep.
The recess on the bottom is made to fit over the end of my hydraulic jack's ram and is 13/32" deep.

Hope this is helpful.
Wayne
 

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Wow, thanks for sharing. On long trips, I carry around a 50 lb SUV jack with case because if anything ever did happen -- I would never use that jack that comes with the car. Feels like I could push the car and it would tip over. This is probably like 10 lbs or less and takes up 1/10th of the space.
 
Nice work! I would think you could cover the contact surface with some rubber (maybe plasti-dip) to protect the body.

I have seen others make this type of thing out of a hockey puck. Some guys use it like the one you made, others glue it to the jack, others make multiple hockey pucks and glue them under the car as permanent jacking points.
 
A friend runs a machine shop. It was done on a milling machine. Since I retired and I can't do the machining myself so I get all my work done there.
 
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