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We've got an old hydraulic floor jack at home that has provided many years of trusty service at home, but the thing now no longer holds pressure very well.

It's a pain to pump the thing up without any weight on it, and subsequently takes ages to get the thing to reach the subframe of a car. Once there's some weight on it, though, getting a car off the ground becomes a lot easier. The seals have been replaced previously, but it still leaks a bit too, so maybe the bores are not as smooth as they should be...

Does anyone know (roughly) how much it would cost to sort out, and if it is worth repairing? It is (or was...) a pretty decent jack, and cost my old man a fair bit of coin when he bought it. It's a 2,000kg one, and not your average cheapy, which is why I'd like to know if it's worth repairing/reconditioning, and keeping.

It's an old "Formula" jack, if I remember correctly... I will double-check tomorrow, but most likely all the labelling has been worn off over the years.

Sorry that I can't help you with a particular place, but I knwo that there are places that do hydrolic jack repair.

When I was googling before when I was looking to buy a trolley jack, there were heaps of places.

I can't tell you which place is good or not, but if you go to google, and type hyraulic jack repair, there are many places. I tried to copy the googly results, but the link doesn't work.

I tried a Google search too, but would prefer a recommendation if someone can offer me one.

I just want to know if it's worth keeping and repairing, or just buying a new one...

depends on how well the jack works. Good jacks are hard to come by.

I have bought two jacks recently and they're shithouse. they're not those little jacks, they're big 2500 kg trolley jacks.

For your jack, if it's just taking a while and lowering after time etc, it's probably just the seals.

That plus an oil change (yes, you're supposed to change the oil in them) may fix it.

Give some of the blokes a call. you might honestly be suprised at the price.

I'm now stuck in a pickle. For the amount i've spent on the two jacks, I could've bought a snap on jack.

Edited by MANWHORE

Ok, thanks for that.

I'll see how I go. Used it today, and it made that "cracking" noise (like when you're trying to remove a really tight nut/bolt) every couple of minutes as it slowly started dropping bit by bit under the weight of the car. We used stands, of course, but weren't under the car for too long anyway.

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