I've spotted this for sale in my eternal internet search for a decent high lift Jack for the Fatty, given the epic articulation when it comes to jacking the big old lump up and the time it takes up and down several times with railway sleepers and my bottle jack - not to mention ball ache!

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equ...olley-jack

British built, good warranty, 1500kg lifting capacity, which is a lot less than the FF weighs, however according to RAVE is the minimum recommended lifting capacity.

Buy one of these…Mercedes Sprinter jack & modify it as shown.
It lifts all four corners sufficiently to remove the wheels easily.

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic40554.html

They are usually available on eBay for £30-35. G reg 2.5VM Vogue Portofino red 1991- 1999
V reg 2.5td P38 Rioja red 1999- 2006
53 reg td6 Vogue Oslo blue 2006- 2015
11 reg 4.4 TdV8 Vogue SE. Baltic blue 2015- date.
https://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic56162...tty+affair

Thank you, but it doesn't really answer my question - I'm interested in a trolley jack and want to know if it will be practically enough to lift the FF and if anyone has any practical experience lifting from the rear cross member?

i use my 3 ton jobby [from machine mart] to lift from the front and rear..i jack each side on the rear on the wishbones ... ... - .- -.




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Thank you Stan. Does your's not fit under the central cross beam between the exhaust?

Almost a metre of lift has got me excited and wondering if anyone else has used a 1.5 tonner..

I've used my 3 ton jack on the rear cross member. I used a cut up piece of H iron and a block of wood to get between the exhausts. It was a bit of a fag to do but I was putting the whole car on axle stands, not just changing wheels. It worked ok with plenty of height to get the wheels off the ground.

I thought it needed something special to fit between there, I was thinking about getting something milled at a precision engineers

I’ve got this one, well made things.

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equ...olley-jack

stan wrote:

i use my 3 ton jobby [from machine mart] to lift from the front and rear..i jack each side on the rear on the wishbones ...

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/garage-equ...olley-jack

Mine is similar to this and the extension tube slots on.......would that fit easily?

Yes, that would do the trick.

Don't think you need a precision engineering solution. You could use a cut off railway line even.

I have a Halfords 2.25 tonne jack and a draper 3 tonne jack. The Halfords jack really struggles to lift the RR, a 1.5 tonne jack is really going to struggle 56 TDV8 Vogue SE
9 Freelanders, 2x 2002 TD4ES, 2001 TD4, 2002 1.8GS, 2000 XEDI, 2x 2000 1.8ES, 2004 1.8 & 2000 1.8 GS (rolled)
91 Lotus Carlton (sold)
90 Lotus Elan (BRG)

Can't believe I've seen this, a disaster waiting to happen

Whoever came up with this idea should be hung by the neck.

Thank you all

47p2 wrote:

Can't believe I've seen this, a disaster waiting to happen. Whoever came up with this idea should be hung by the neck.