What do you guys use for truck jacks?

[SwampDonkey]

Wondering what a lot of you guys have on board the farm pickup for changing tires on your pickup. I really want a decent jack, not a toy some vehicle manufacturer thinks is fine and sticks in some cavity I have to empty the truck contents to get at. ;D :D

I've got a Tacoma here and never needed the onboard jack yet and have not taken the tire out from under the bed of the truck yet either. I really should remove it and throw it onto the bed. I know those dang cables/cranks can rust up and be a pain in the back side.

Thanks.

[Nebraska]

There is a black rubber made  tote in the back of my 1 ton Ford. It has a four way  and a 6 or 8 ton bottle jack, a cheapie  cigarette lighter compressor, a tire plug kit, last years fuel filter as a back up, anti gel , jumper cables,a spare hitch, a clevis and pin, other misc straps, fluids and treasures. If I go any distance away from home it and the spare tire are along. I keep a heavy vice grip and crescent wrench in the door pocket. Saved me more than once.

[lxskllr]

I don't have a spare, but I've always used the crappy manufacturer jack when I did have a spare. I keep plugs and a handpump in the truck in case I have to fix holes. So far, that's worked out ok. I have a tire for my truck, but no extra wheel. It's high enough in mileage, and used wheels hard enough to find, I haven't bothered. Not sure where I'd put it anyway, cause the bed's full, and the hanger is missing. I'd have to rig something up myself.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I just use the factory Dodge jack. I don't remember using it on my truck but I got it out and used it on a boat trailer tire last summer. Was not too hard to get to or replace under the front passenger side seat. I keep a 4 way lug wrench in the back of the truck. I also keep one of those cigarette lighter compressors in every vehicle including my 4 wheeler.  That has kept me from needing the jack a time or two. A smart item to keep would be a battery powered 1/2" impact wrench to really make removing and tightening the lugs. The hardest part about changing my tire would be getting the full size spare of the rack hanging under the truck bed. 

[gspren]

Here on the farm I can make it back to my buildings where there's tools and jacks of all types, on the highway I have AAA and a phone.

[DDW_OR]

tire changing story:
two, ram 1 ton dually trucks
one truck worked the other did not
I swapped tires from one to the other, one set was good and the other needed replacing.


used the Ryobi 1/2 inch 18v impact and one 6 amp hour battery to do it all
used the dodge factory gear jack and a socket on the Ryobi to lift each empty truck

then after the swap was complete i used a click torque bar to check torque
the lug nuts where at torque or more

[Magicman]

The factory supplied jack is hidden somewhere in my truck and I would probably need the owners manual to find it but I do know where in my toolbox the "squatty" 20 ton hydraulic jack is.

[Southside]

I have one of those squatty 20 ton jacks as well in the truck all the time along with a 4 way. If I am going any distance or hooking up to the goose neck then I toss the Milwaukee 18v, 1/2" impact and a deep impact set into there as well. 

[SawyerTed]

My cab chassis didn't come with a spare or a jack.  They wanted a stupid amount of money for them.

I carry an 8 ton bottle jack, a four way lug wrench in the underbody tool box, commercial roadside service and a cell phone.  The jack is more for the various trailers and other equipment on the farm and around the sawmill.

[Larry]

Bottle jack and a four way.  Can't remember the last time I had to change a tire.

About 10 years ago I was BS'ing with my State Farm insurance agent.  He told me they had an extra add on to the basic insurance policy that only cost maybe two or three dollars a year.  Covers tow in, flat tires, out of gas, and lost key type of things.  I've only used it once....diesel truck fuel filter plugged from junk in the fuel tank.  Came out with a rollback wrecker and hauled me 20 miles to a repair shop of my choice.  Didn't cost me a thing and the service was fast.  Faster than I could have got a tow myself.  I figured that one incident is probably worth at least a hundred years of paying insurance premiums.

[Peter Drouin]

I use what came with the truck on the road or call AAA
At home, I use the lift. ;)


 

[scsmith42]

I keep a 20 ton bottle jack, some wood blocks, two different sizes of 4-way lug wrenches, a lug wrench cheater bar, tool set and a high-lift jack in the back of my truck.  Between them, I'm set up to work on either the truck or the trailer.

[Ed_K]

 1 1/2 ton floor jack, 2"x8"x24" board to put under the jack and a couple diff size blocks to go on top of jack depending on height. It an tire are in the bed cause you can't get a tire out from under the truck after it's more than a yr old .   

[Pine Ridge]

I keep a floor jack in my pickup tool box.

[SwampDonkey]

My recent experience with a "Crappy Tire" tire compressor for the cigarette lighter last winter was the end was such a crappy design that it pulled off the rubber hose when I tried to remove the thing. :D I only used it because it was in the basement, whereas the real air compressor had 8 feet of drifted snow between the truck and the barn. :D I've got a good 4-way, have had it for 30 years. I will look into a good bottle jack. The jack will be used outdoors when needed, not on a cement floor in most instances. I think the one in the truck is a style of bottle jack, probably no more than 3 ton. It doesn't look like much.

Thanks for some ideas. ;)

[gspren]

The ratings on the newer bottle jacks is overly optimistic, if you think you may need to lift up to 2 tons get at least a 6 ton jack, 8 would be better!