Traditional Hi-Lift Jack vs ARB Jack
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Traditional mechanical high-lift jacks have been around since Adam was a boy, a farm implement good for moving logs around. Fast-forward a bloody long way to where someone saw a chance to sell a long-travel farmer’s friend to an up-and-coming market, the recreational 4X4er. As well as high quality cast and machined models from usually USA-based manufacturers, there are cheap Far Eastern-manufactured examples, some of which bend just looking at them. Mechanical high-lift jacks aren’t especially safe to use. Even quality examples are unsteady, and lowering a vehicle causes the handle to try and knock your teeth out. These jacks have clearly been around forever, seemingly a necessity for off-road credibility to some and certainly ubiquitous within the off-road scene.
Into this established market enters ARB’s new Jack. Instead of a mechanical contraption, ARB has developed a hydraulic device to do the same job, only better.
Ye olde mechanical jack was an adaptable piece of kit; as well as lifting it could be used for (laboriously) winching. Use the winch adapter and you could use it for clamping. The good quality mechanical jacks could be driven over as an emergency bridging ladder or the handle used to sleeve a bent track rod or trailing arm or even as a breaker bar extension. At the same time they are considered a dangerous tool, not as bad as snatching from a tow ball for example, but nonetheless dangerous if not respected.
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Farm jack - $100, ARB - $1000. At ten times the cost, DON'T THINK SO !
Nice review, however, you did forget to mention how difficult it is to lower the ARB jack back down to regular height for storing. I have one and I love it, but to get it back down to pack size requires a bit of an effort - not impossible, but you do need to add your full body weight to the jack to lower it back down after use.
How much? ARB your having a laugh given it’s limitations! Interesting to see that full clip in the attempt to compress the jack so you could get it out from under the rock sliders / steps. Also noted the harsh side shift when the jack was lowered. Same risk as I see it when the ground is compromised or you don’t plan and take your time..👍🇦🇺
The "removable handle" is extremely dangerous without a pin. If the handle does get sent flying upward in lowering mode, that handle will be flung into the air. If you drill the cotter pin then replace it with a removable pin
Since the ARB jack is useless for for spreading in emergencies or drive-off jacking to clear obstacles, an offroad style aluminium trolley jack far better value and safer to use than the expensive over-engineered ARB jack. It might be safer than a hilift but it is not as rugged nor as useful
But does it look good just sitting there in the back of your rig 99.9% of the time so ppl think that you off road!??? 🤣
😂 it adds HP on their “offroad” Rigs i guess
Hydraulic looks easier, but less stable. Wibble wobble there at the end.
Hi-Lift all the way, The ARB is a One Trick Pony, A bit of common sense and they Hi-Lift will save the day every time. By the way for lifting the whole side of a vehicle your suposed to use 2 jack or do it one end at a time. fair comparo though, As always Unsealed does try to do a balanced review. The Hi-Lift has served us well for over 100 years we don't need this arb Gucci Imposter.