Air Compressor/Floor Jack

[Justin]

I asked for a nice Air Compressor and/or floor jack for my birthday from my parents... they asked me in return what brand.

I'm generally a Craftman guy, what's not snap-on is Craftsman... are there any brands I should look at instead?

I am looking at the 200 dollar, aluminum, super-cool, floor jack at Sears, and some Craftman air compressor... bigger style.

Anyone have a better brand recomendation?

 

[starscream5000]

I like this AL floor jack that I had, until the damn seals gave out while trying to jack a freaking Geo Metro up :3d_frown:

But it was a Wal-Mart floor jack, don't know how the big name companies will be with the AL ones, but I'm going back to the heavy ass floor jacks from now on.

 

[Ckanderson]

I have a craftsman alu/steel jack, it works fine, pretty light too.

Buy a GOOD compressor. craftsman professional?

my dad has a 35 gallon craftsman normal model and it sucks cause it doesnt have the flow that he needs.

I also reccomend 1/2 inch line IIRC. Always buy more then you need when it comes to compressors. You dont want to be stuck with low flow!

 

[bigaaron]

I have two Craftsman 60 gallon "professional" compressors, one blew a headgasket and had to be replaced, and one leaks from almost every fitting.

 

[xarewhyayen]

ingersoll rand makes alot of the best pneumatic EVERYTHING in the industry

 

[Ckanderson]

I have two Craftsman 60 gallon "professional" compressors, one blew a headgasket and had to be replaced, and one leaks from almost every fitting.

Enter 7m-gte comment here.

 

[tissimo]

Now when it blew.. were you pissed or more like easy fix hahahaha

 

[mkIIIman089]

I have two Craftsman 60 gallon "professional" compressors, one blew a headgasket and had to be replaced, and one leaks from almost every fitting.

I've heard a lot of things like that happening to them.

Also I hear craftsman compressors, the big end of the 120V scale, suck so many amps its almost impossible to run them in a normal house.

 

[iwannadie]

I have all craftsman but Ive herd all bad things about their compressors as well. I dont have a compressor but a buddy of mine has a huge compressor from costco, hasnt had any problems with Alot of use.

As for the floor jack, I have a craftsman professional heavy duty one. It lifts like twice what the supra weighs. Havent had any problems with it at all and its seen alot of use for a few years now. It weighs a ton but I dont care its on wheels. I only carried it once when I moved so I dont need/want a light weight aluminum jack. I think the key is getting a jack that lifts alot more than youll ever need. If your pushing the jacks limits it will fail sooner on ya.

 

[mkIIIman089]

Missed the jack...

My recommendation is to get one with the absolute lowest minimum height, so that you can actually fit it under the front subframe where it belongs. Craftsman does not offer anything thats low enough for my taste.

I do have a lot of Craftsman hand tools, which work pretty well for the price, so don't get the wrong idea on my impression of craftsman.

 

[iwannadie]

Missed the jack...

My recommendation is to get one with the absolute lowest minimum height, so that you can actually fit it under the front subframe where it belongs. Craftsman does not offer anything thats low enough for my taste.

I do have a lot of Craftsman hand tools, which work pretty well for the price, so don't get the wrong idea on my impression of craftsman.

I ran into that problem when I lowered my supra. The jack is about 1/2" to high to fit under. I just put a 45lb weight behind a front tire and reverse up on it. That gives me enough height(very stable) to then get the jack under.

 

[mkIIIman089]

Thats what I normally have to do (I use ~1.5in concrete squares though), which is why I say go as low as you possibly can to anyone looking to buy a new jack.

 

[iwannadie]

Thats what I normally have to do (I use ~1.5in concrete squares though), which is why I say go as low as you possibly can to anyone looking to buy a new jack.

From what Ive seen though the lower min. height jack you go, the less it will lift. I think horsepowerfreaks.com sells a cool roll-on box(its pricey!). My 45 does just fine though although its kind of big to roll on sometimes. Gotta give it alot of gas to get on it, maybe a 25 in front of the 45 lol.

 

[MassSupra89]

I usually have some 2x6's laying around that I can just drive up onto for low clearance issues.

Craftsman Aluminum here.