C12farmer
Well-Known Member
I thank you for your post. I have never owned a bottle jack but I never would have thought that you can’t store them on their sides or else they’ll leak oil everywhere.Warning for anyone who bought the @EV Sportline Rivian specific 6-ton bottle jack...go check on it.
I bought the EV Sportline jack March of 2023. Rivian wasn't selling spare kits at the time so I built my own. Never used the jack once, but put it in my R1T spare compartment in case I needed it. Well, I needed it. Went to change a flat tire and instead of finding my nice unused kit waiting for me I found a mess of hydraulic fluid everywhere. I needed to call AAA to come change the tire for me. Store it and forget it emergency gear can't fail like this.
Also, it might be a bit nitpicky but the rubber gasket on the jack puck had broken apart. The spare gasket was still good.
Needless to say, I won't be using EV Sportline products for anything critical.
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Is this really true for all bottle jacks or just some designs? I could imagine a “premium” design that has check valves of some sort, but it’s going to cost a few more dollars to manufacture.
I own a floor jack and store it in the case every which way except vertical. Never had a leak by storing it. Never had to read the instructions either.
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