Harbor freight motorcycle jack problem?
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The only real difference I see, the base on the J&S are wider. I'm sure they are a better made jack and if I owned a shop where I worked on bikes all day, I would surely own a J&S or Pit-bull, but for my own use, I love my HF Jack
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I bought a "Jellow jack" from Harley in 1993....
I sold it years later.....went with no jack....
The jack in 1993 went for 300 bucks....
I saw the same kind in Harbor Freight for 120 bucks several months ago. I bought it...it was beautiful and exactly the same except the color was different. THATS WHERE THE SIMALARITIES END.
This piece of junk wobbles with the bike on it. It's aluminum and that should have been my warning...It shakes the bike and is damn unsafe.
The old steel yellow jack was solid, it raised a fat boy and you could bump into it and the bike could take the hit. This Harbor freight thing I have is just good looking junk.
One of the scariest things I ever bought....
You get what you pay for.
I sold it years later.....went with no jack....
The jack in 1993 went for 300 bucks....
I saw the same kind in Harbor Freight for 120 bucks several months ago. I bought it...it was beautiful and exactly the same except the color was different. THATS WHERE THE SIMALARITIES END.
This piece of junk wobbles with the bike on it. It's aluminum and that should have been my warning...It shakes the bike and is damn unsafe.
The old steel yellow jack was solid, it raised a fat boy and you could bump into it and the bike could take the hit. This Harbor freight thing I have is just good looking junk.
One of the scariest things I ever bought....
You get what you pay for.
Last edited by Gliden; Apr 16, 2010 at 03:06 PM.
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Wrong again
No matter how much you spend on the jack they are all the same, probably made in the same plant in CHINA no matter what it says on the label. I have the HF and it works just fine, all you guys that are having trouble with the bottle jack try putting some fluid in it and bleeding the air out of it once in a while. Close the valve pump it a few times open the valve close the valve pump it a few times open the valve until there is no air in it and like magic it will work . It ain't friggin rocket science.
there are many lifts made in the USA
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Don't you mean assembled in the USA? All of the parts come from China, including the steel.
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