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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 09:54 AM
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Harbor Freight Floor Jack 34271 3 ton

3 ton Super HD 20" of lift
34271 99.99

Anyone had any luck with these? My old floor Jack died and looking to get some replacements for the shop.

I can pick them up locally is the reason for consideration.

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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 10:01 AM
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I bought one about 2 years ago. I use it at least 3 or 4 times a month for various projects mine or friends. I have not had issue 1 with it. I keep it lubed and out of the rain.
If this one failed I would buy another Harbor Freight 3 ton just like it.
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 10:05 AM
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My current one is like 8 years old and has been used to death.

Hard to screw up a floor jack I figured.

Going to doing a flat bed soon...looking a lot like yours too probably. You ever do any plans for it?

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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 10:18 AM
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As far as plans I have a few rough sketches thats about it. It was more fly by the seat of the pants thing.
You better do a thread of the build!!
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Old Feb 22, 2010 | 11:32 AM
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Hey Brian,
Harbor Freight has 20% off coupons in Automobile and Road and Track, plus we've been getting flyers in the local paper for the same. The mag ads are usually in the back, full page.

So far so good on the 6 year old truck floor jack (us general), we had a smaller car jack (mvp superlift) that started leaking after 5 years.
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Old Feb 24, 2010 | 06:07 PM
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I picked this one up about 3 weeks ago. Paid $59.00 for it on sale and a coupon. Also got the pad for it. That way it might not scratch the front axle so much. Pad was $5.00. Only used it once, but the pad seemed to hold up good. I got it to replace my 12 year old 2.5 ton MVP. It was leaking, and not holding up anything. I got the hair to clean the ram, refill the MVP with good hydro fluid, and bleed it. And now the MVP is working fine, and not leaking. So now I guess I have two jacks, never hurts.
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Old Feb 24, 2010 | 06:12 PM
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I had a long frame harbor freight jack that lifted up to 30-32"..it was great...just do bad it disappeared along with a few other things....
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Old Feb 24, 2010 | 07:17 PM
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I got (3) of these for $240 to my door...my brother is bringing them Saturday.



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Old Feb 24, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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Can you tell me how well they work for you?
My floor jack just kicked the bucket..
Wont even lift itself up anymore.
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Old Jun 12, 2010 | 05:46 PM
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i just bought one today on sale , its 59.99 - 20% coupon + 9.99 2 yrs warranty + tax

its whooping deal for a 3 ton jack , i got it only 62.99

if any one wants to buy one they are still on sale till sunday

here is the coupon

save this page , they change some of the coupon every few month

http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/...e=magurl1.html


btw you can get a free flash light , with no purchase required!!

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Old Jun 23, 2010 | 09:08 PM
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I bought the black/yellow version on sale several months ago. Item #94629, I think.

I haven't used it much. Works ok. I had read about HF jacks lowering too quickly, and this one sure does. Even loosening carefully, it's difficult to only let the jack down a little bit. You turn slowly, nothing happens, then whoosh, it comes down in a hurry.

Overall, good bang for the buck for occasional mechanics. It would be excellent except for the lowering issue, which can be very annoying.

As mentioned earlier, make use of the 20% off coupons. They don't apply to items purchased with a separate coupon, but they do to everything else, including sale prices. One place to find coupons and keep up with sales is this thread at slickdeals: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthr...id=0&t=1276399
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