**** HF Jack Stand Recall ****

[Moparfiend]

Not sure where this should go as its a priority announcement but here it is:

The Harbor Freight jack stands 3 & 6 ton that we've all bought, borrowed or seen in our friends' garages are being recalled due to a risk of collapsing under load. Go check yours immediately.

 

[Islandkent]

I wonder if there is a certain year they were produced or all of them. I'm from Canada and I think I bought some that looked like that from Canadian Tire. But about 4 years ago.

 

[yella71]

imagine that......Chineese made crap that could fail and hurt/kill you? covid stands? When will this world learn to stop using ANYTHING from there? (china)

 

[khryslerkid]

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/harbor-freight-jack-stands-recalled.194029/

 

[MADCIMA]

no longer produce the equipment of the past

 

[MCODECUDA]

I have an old set of jack stands that someone on YouTube identified as being dangerous as the locking pawl is not positively locked on the hand lever. https://youtu.be/T3W8SEDsuCI
After seeing this I rushed out to the garage to check mine and found that my same model jack stands have a drive pin that locks the hand lever to the pawl therefore were not at risk for this failure.

 

[diesel_lv]

Well my car is sitting in the air on all four corners on the recall 6 ton ones. Has been for 2 yrs and a lot of pounding. I'll have to wait until I'm done before I take them back for their "in house gift certificate".