Having picked up a full size spare wheel to replace my "can of foam" I also need to get a jack and wheel braceto go in the back with the wheel! Thought about the LR official part but figure a decent bottle jack from Machine Mart might be cheaper and more useful in the long run!

Only thing I am not sure about (without getting out and meassuring) is the height of jack that I would need - I am guessing some clever soul on here will be able to point me in the right direction?

Ground to sill is 26cm on a level surface.

I went for this one:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-245113-...amp;sr=8-3

18cm minimum height so give a bit of leeway for uneven ground. Comes in a nice blow moulded case.

A 2 tonne jack would be fine but I prefer a fair chunk of extra capacity! John
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Remember too that you have more wheel travel than on a normal car, so the jack needs to be able to lift high enough to raise the wheel.
Also there are very specific jacking points on the FR2 for non-standard jacks. I know there's a diagram on here somewhere but can't remember where. A search might find it.

Ah yes, here: https://www.freel2.com/gallery/albums/user...KING~0.pdf

How much lift am I going no need to get the car off the ground then? allowing for suspension etc?

I was looking at this from Machine Mart http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/...ottle-jack

19cm to 39.5cm so I would expect that to be more than enough?

Sorry, but I'm not going out to jack my car up in the rain to find out! Others will probably know

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Ground to sill is 26cm on a level surface.

I'll agree with that with 4 inflated tyres, but the whole idea of the jack might be for a deflated tyre or two. Would a 190mm Machine Mart jack go under then and the lift of 190mm is 'iffy' as to whether the wheel would be off the ground.

A good scissor jack has a range close to 300mm lift and can have a bigger footprint for safety.

Transit vans used to be supplied with a jack that was too tall to go under vehicle with a flat front tyre! Solution, drive flat wheel up onto spare wheel before raising car. Depends how much you value your alloys I suppose...

Tyres are 235/65/17's so the side walls are 65% of the 235mm width - which I make 152.75mm in total

Take this off the 26cm sill height and the 19cm jack should go under ok - allowing for the fact that the tyre, even when flat would provide a little but of height to the equation!

JST wrote:

Ground to sill is 26cm on a level surface.

I went for this one:-

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverline-245113-...amp;sr=8-3

18cm minimum height so give a bit of leeway for uneven ground. Comes in a nice blow moulded case.

A 2 tonne jack would be fine but I prefer a fair chunk of extra capacity!

Thanks for the link JST, got one on the way.

thats a cheap Chinese jack with a small foot print but use it with care and you should be fine. probably safer than the LR jack and the end of the day.

RRS comes with 2 folding wheel wedges/chocks a good idea, most jacking accidents happen when the car rolls away from the jack.

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Good point CG....I always carry a couple of lightweight wheel chocks just in case. Even the old Disco 1 came with a metal wheel chock. John
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Triumph Rocket 111 (sadly gone!)

You could get one of those air bags the recovery services sometimes use, placed under the sill, connect to the exhaust, start the engine and inflate. They have a non return valve in the supply hose so it cant go down on its own. Big footprint to spread the load on soft ground too.
And it can be packed flat and kept on top of the spare in the well

The wheel chocks are supplied on Disco and RR because the transmission brake could in theory allow the vehicle to move once a wheel is off the ground. FR2 has handbrake drums on rear wheels so not a problem (unless you lift both rear wheels of course )

Mona Geeza wrote:

You could get one of those air bags the recovery services sometimes use, placed under the sill, connect to the exhaust, start the engine and inflate. They have a non return valve in the supply hose so it cant go down on its own. Big footprint to spread the load on soft ground too.
And it can be packed flat and kept on top of the spare in the well