Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Traditional mechanical high-lift jacks have been around since Adam was a boy, a farm implement good for moving logs around. Fast-forward a bloody long way to where someone saw a chance to sell a long-travel farmer’s friend to an up-and-coming market, the recreational 4X4er. As well as high quality cast and machined models from usually USA-based manufacturers, there are cheap Far Eastern-manufactured examples, some of which bend just looking at them. Mechanical high-lift jacks aren’t especially safe to use. Even quality examples are unsteady, and lowering a vehicle causes the handle to try and knock your teeth out. These jacks have clearly been around forever, seemingly a necessity for off-road credibility to some and certainly ubiquitous within the off-road scene.
Into this established market enters ARB’s new Jack. Instead of a mechanical contraption, ARB has developed a hydraulic device to do the same job, only better.
Ye olde mechanical jack was an adaptable piece of kit; as well as lifting it could be used for (laboriously) winching. Use the winch adapter and you could use it for clamping. The good quality mechanical jacks could be driven over as an emergency bridging ladder or the handle used to sleeve a bent track rod or trailing arm or even as a breaker bar extension. At the same time they are considered a dangerous tool, not as bad as snatching from a tow ball for example, but nonetheless dangerous if not respected.
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Traditional mechanical high-lift jacks have been around since Adam was a boy, a farm implement good for moving logs around. Fast-forward a bloody long way to where someone saw a chance to sell a long-travel farmer’s friend to an up-and-coming market, the recreational 4X4er. As well as high quality cast and machined models from usually USA-based manufacturers, there are cheap Far Eastern-manufactured examples, some of which bend just looking at them. Mechanical high-lift jacks aren’t especially safe to use. Even quality examples are unsteady, and lowering a vehicle causes the handle to try and knock your teeth out. These jacks have clearly been around forever, seemingly a necessity for off-road credibility to some and certainly ubiquitous within the off-road scene.
Into this established market enters ARB’s new Jack. Instead of a mechanical contraption, ARB has developed a hydraulic device to do the same job, only better.
Ye olde mechanical jack was an adaptable piece of kit; as well as lifting it could be used for (laboriously) winching. Use the winch adapter and you could use it for clamping. The good quality mechanical jacks could be driven over as an emergency bridging ladder or the handle used to sleeve a bent track rod or trailing arm or even as a breaker bar extension. At the same time they are considered a dangerous tool, not as bad as snatching from a tow ball for example, but nonetheless dangerous if not respected.
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For more reviews, gear, news, and anything in-between in the 4WD industry visit
Our Website: https://www.unsealed4x4.com.au
Our Facebook Page: facebook.com/unsealed4X4
