Customer Reviews

Grizzly H8089 1250 lb. Low Profile Transmission Jack

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My sons and I are drag racers with a variety of different vehicles. Changing out a transmission or converter is a tough assignment with the car just sitting in the garage on stands. Normally a floor jack and a piece of plywood were our tools of choice for this chore, but no more. When I purchased this paying just $119 I figured it might be a bit on the cheap side as far as construction goes, but with the limited use that we had for it, we would be okay. I was totally blown away when I opened the box. The construction on this jack is fantastic, heavy duty components are utilized and the welding is very good. I am not sure that you could build one yourself from scratch for the price. The handle moves in a 360 arc so no problem with not being in the right position to use the jack, the low profile means that with a car on standard jackstands there is plenty of room to drop an automatic transmission down and roll it out from under the car. Storage for the unit is good too as it is easy to stand it up against a wall in the garage taking up less floor space.

If you are looking for this type of jack, I really believe that you cannot go wrong with this purchase. We have used ours a couple of times already with zero issues and compared to our previous method, this is almost too easy. Imagine putting a floor jack under the car, then sliding a complete automatic transmission under the car and then lifting the transmission onto the floor jack in that limited space! That was our previous method. Now we just put the transmission on the Grizzly jack, slip the safety chain in place and wheel it under the car and up it goes. No fussing and no more cursing.

I used it to replace a transmission on my Toyota 4X4. Worked very well
really easy to move around and great adjustability. If you do your own transmission work get one it saves a lot of lifting and straining

Used it for a isuzu rodeo transmission replacement. worked well. thought chain was a little cheap but other than that it was all good.

I purchased this item as a gift for my son, and he says it is really a good tranny jack. He does nearly all of his auto repair work, including transmissions, and he has just finished a tranny change out and all went well. I would say that it is a good auto shop tool.
Charles

I've never written a review before and I rarely will again. But I just wanted to say that this jack is solid. Finally a product that isn't junk and doesn't rip you off. It's bigger and heftier than I expected, which is nice. Serious bang for the buck.

I'm in the process of finishing installing a motor in my 90 4x4 2500 GMC I've been using the jack to support the trans, had nothing else for the support of it ...That grizzly held that in place for 2 weeks eaisly...while waiting for the motor work to be done on the block...I had read reviews before I made the purchase when I got the jack very impressive to look at very strong, was told it is the best and it is for what it does...I'd recomend it anytime to anyone....