4 ton double ram bottle jack, fiat maxi/alko chassis £20 (1 Viewer)

[SandraL]

Techno, I have to admire the precision parking to get those floor jacks lined up so precisely. Well done!

 

[SandraL]

Your bottle jack is going to have to get under your van with a flat
your run up a ramp is a non starter
And your flat tyre change procedure wants practicing at home or on the M1, your choice.
Get your scissor jack out and take your own measurements.
The measurements you seek here will depend on
wheel/ suspension drop, and tyre profiles and pressures so is virtually unanswerable as all vehicles will be slightly different to a degree
you wont want to rely upon

Yes, I think you have the right answer. Time to visit van with tape and scissor jack to establish exact measurements. Will be a couple of days before that happens.

 

[Techno]

My Fiat scissor jack doesn't struggle in the slightest to lift my van on any corner. Perfectly adequate
Wheel off the floor here to grease the AL-KO axle

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[SandraL]

OK, done the measuring and I need to lift rear axle (alko)135mm from standard height. But with flat tyre maybe 100mm more. Have decided to live with standard fiat scissor jack, but use 1/2" socket and the extra long ratchet torque wrench rather than fiat kit. Enough leverage so as not to much effort required even with rear axle running at 2450kg. Interestingly fiat jack has label 2400kg, assume thats its capability so 1 wheel at a time should be fine.This will cope with flat tyre scenario which bottle jack will not. Thanks for all the comments.