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Dear Hisham, As a visit to your worshop is a pleasure at any time I will take you up on the offer. I am more than happy to strip it down with the team (or have coffee with you while we wait to see the outcome ). And for the business idea - agreed. If there is anyone with a broken jack, the Hishard Jack Repair Company is open for business. We guarantee you to repair or give your jack back in the condition in which we were unable to repair it.

Dear @Wrangeld will give it a try in the workshop. My team, went through many similar situations, and managed with our technician to find solutions and repair. Will be happy to try to fix it, but if not fixed, will be sure to give it back as is 😅. In case will go into partner ship, new business jack repair, you in marketing and we in service 50-50 😉

Good you making an attempt to fix what can be fixed than just throwing it away. Way to go Richard. Jack losing oil have 50% chance of saving if oil was leaked due to storing upside down (not sideways). If you never kept it upside down, then you are right the internal seal must be replaced. I don't have any solution, but as we have tons of these jack in our club and last two week back I noticed @Zed and @Hasan Wahlan jack was leaking too and not lifting enough in Khatim. I feel someone with mechanical knowledge and free time should find a way to fix these leaking seal issue with hydraulic jack. Just a food for thought for someone having free time and curiosity to solve this problem. If anyone is interested here maybe Richard (in Dubai) OR Zed and Hassan (in Abu Dhabi) can leave the jack for experimentation.

On my JZX i left the bleed valve a bit open without realizing it, so i lost some oil a while back and had to refill it by removing the bleed screw, the ball inside, and adding some hydraulic fluid. Right now it seems to work fine again but i am contemplating of moving towards a customized system with a bottle jack. Below base plate for bottle jack (found on Australian Ebay website) would be ideal, but i would reinforce the mounting part of the bottle jack even further by making a second plate that goes on top of the baseplate. the only difficulty i see is that a floor jack has a lower footprint, which makes it easier to get underneath the car. In this scenario the 180mm bottle jack height combined with a 20mm baseplate would mean you have to dig a bit deeper to be able to install it.

Espresso included in the offer ☕️

More than happy to have someone experiment on my jack. There's a business in this somewhere because I am 100% sure that it's not just in Carnity that this is a problem, but across the UAE 4x4 community. Alternative is that if someone has a workshop and is curious we can take a look together and see how to fix this poblem.

I have a JZX hydraulic jack - quite a common model in the club. http://www.gulf-jzxtools.com/products-detail.asp?ID=2236 It's a great model: swivel head, not too heavy, decent carry case so I would like to continue using it, but it's lost it's mojo. It's become more desert plain than Burj Khalifa. I have gone through the obvious fixes of re-priming and filling more oil, but it's clear there is a leak in one of the seals on the jack on the piston (the oil left inside the carry case is a bit of a giveaway). It is not the most expensive item in the world, but I do not want to throw it away if someone in the club has the address of someone that can repair the jack. JZX did not even reply to my mails to their service department, so they probably regard the jack as dispoable, but adding another 25kg of metal to the landfil in Sharjah just does not feel right. Any suggestions?

@Wrangeld looking at this DIY Jack Rebuild Instructions, it seems: a. Good quality brands sell a "Rebuild Kit" with instruction diagram in case it needs to be repaired. b. Cheaper brands don't bother as they want you to buy new one. c. A floor jack contains a bottle jack inside it laid sideways, so maybe you can replace the bottle jack that's hidden inside with a spare or second-hand bottle that's working fine... Else you gotta open up that bottle jack and dig deep. If the brand doesn't sell Rebuild Kits, it looks like a hassle and maybe you can call each of these guys to make assessment how much money it will cost to disassemble and repair: Refill & Bleed For others already on this thread, if it leaks or losing its mojo, do not deteriorate further by replacing Hydraulic Oil with Brake Fluid, Motor Oil or other types of oil (not even Vegetable Oil!) : 1. Buy Hydraulic Jack Oil with these characteristics 2. Bleed the air out after refilling the oil

I've been using jura for many years, no issues. Keep cleaning and descaling at the right time, runs forever. In about 4 to 5 years, sent to service once And always fresh coffee beans not capsules Discussion started with Jack's ended up with coffee Machines 🤣

I have home espresso machine need repair 🤣 .. let’s see how many in the club are espresso lovers . I like the idea Fred , the only concern is storage area in the truck !

@Frederic if you combine this with a Short Bottle like below, it will be a usable mod 😊

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Looks like a good deal, if any other position opens up pls let me know 😉☺️😁

Jura is like Italian Pizza .. one needs to travel to Italy for that...and Nespresso is Pizza Hut, gets me a good medium for 50 bucks and tastes better than what I bake and home...😂

True, best to get the discount they offer you for the new machine .. done it twice already and is a reasonable trade off

Having tried over years...Nespresso has only one fix...throw it and get another one...,,😂

NESPRESSO ☕️

Go go HJRC !

You are spot on!!!

Thanks @Abdul Rahman AK Thanks @Anish S

Congratulations @Naveen Raj

Here is the image that I fixed the tow point in 2019.

And we bring pizza into discussion. Think it's dinner time.

I am not sure I can repair, I have jura one🤔🤔

Thanks @Anish S

Time to get the Subaru dirty... Again 😁

Congratulations @Josh T.

As a first timer, we highly recommend driving alone for the first drive to avoid any distractions that can cause serious issue sometimes. From the second drive onward you are most welcome to bring your friends and family in your car as a passenger.

Thanks @Abdul Rahman AK

Congrats @Naveen Raj!

Congrats @Josh T.!

Thanks for the providing the info @munkybizness. See you on Friday morning. By the way interesting profile name.😅

Thanks @M.Seidam Thanks @Danish Mohammad

Thanks @Gaurav 😀 Thanks @Ranjan Das Thanks @Lakshmi Narasimhan Thanks @Hisham Masaad Thanks @Zixuan Huang - Charlie Thanks @M.Seidam Thanks @Danish Mohammad

Congratulations @Naveen Raj

Congratulations @Naveen Raj

Congrats Naveen