So can someone clarify where the pads are now making contact?
Is the contact point now behind the oil pan reenforcement? And is it in front of the humps for the stand???

 

There are plenty of photos to answer your question within this thread:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/6360198-post73.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/6395727-post94.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/6717077-post115.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/7497023-post192.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/10030620-post447.html

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/11135852-post526.html

 

Mahalo! That is exactly what I was looking for!

 

I did this mod over the weekend and it works great on my 2013 SGC. I had a buddy there with me to stand the bike up straight the first time to line up everything and it went right up. Then I tried it again, this time with the bike on the k-stand and him just observing. I was a little nervous but just like in the video it comes back on the pads and goes right up! This is so cool. I did zip tie the clutch cable and with a rubber mallot slid the k-stand rubber stopper forward on the frame and out of the way.
Thanks SC Longhair!!

 

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for
Thanks!!

 

looking at doing this mod to my Canadian Tire bike jack. I haven't read all 57 pages but looking at the pics I was wondering if anyone that has done this mod noticed any binding or problems with the pads mounts moved to the outer part of the upright arms as the bike is being raised or lowered? was thinking that if the bolts are tightened too much there might be a binding problem.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

 

I bought the HD lift adapters, about 25 bucks, because I also want to use the jack on my softail, and wider spacing gets in the way of some things.
Thanks for the warnings about how those adapters can fail, so I'll watch out for that.

 

I put spacers between the pads as well as between the pads and lift arm. For stability, I left the cross connect tube still attached to each pad and put a solid rod in the tubes to join them so that the pads had more lateral support.

 

Use self-locking nuts. There is no reason to over-tighten.

 

The Sears jack uses some threaded parts of the bolts to bear on lifting parts of the jack frame, so I'm thinkin' there's not much you could do to dis-improve on that.

That said, the Sears jack has served me well for a little while now. I wouldn't expect it to be a great everyday commercial shop jack, but it does OK for what I need it to do.