Recommendations for a floor jack?, My Sears "Professional" PoS is puking fluid Options

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I've got a Sears Craftsman "4 Ton Low Profile Service Jack" that after very limited use over the past several years will now "Professionally" dump hydraulic fluid all over the concrete. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)

Checking their website for an image (link), I now see review after review about it doing this to countless other suckers customers. So alright, they got me - no receipt, bought it back in 2007 or 2008 so if they're screwing people with receipts from 366 days ago, I'm done.

My question is, what should I have bought? What will provide years of lifting and lowering, and scoot under my p-cars, without drama or hassle?

Thanks.

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I have a old 3-ton Astroline jack, been working great for over 30 years (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)

Have you thought about taking your 'Craftsman' jack apart and replacing the seals?


I also carry one of those cheap lightweight HF ones in the trunk of my car ... I think I bought it in '07 or '08 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

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Thanks for all the feedback guys - I'll keep watching, I'd never even heard of Astroline but there's all kinds of stuff when you plug it into Google.

Have you thought about taking your 'Craftsman' jack apart and replacing the seals?

I did think of that, briefly - there is a parts & service number (888-448-6746), open Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM Pacific. Not exactly the project I wanted to be focusing on, but I do hate to think that that 80-90 pound hunk of metal is just scrap...

Just for a point of reference, somewhere lost in storage is my small black Sears 2+ ton floor jack that I used plenty for six years at home and at DE days, prior to 2005. Never a bit of trouble from it.