Hi-Lift Jack Hood Mount Jeep '13 JK

[JeepMann]

Working on Erik's XJ mounting the sliders figured I'd do my easy project and mount my Hi-Lift jack at the same time. Surprisingly we finished both projects.

[munepit]

Why do people mount them to the hood? Never understood that. Why not on the back bumper? Doesn't it impede vision?

Pics of sliders?

[JeepMann]

It was the only place that I could mount it and it look good.

I thought it would, but after I sat in the jeep I it doesn't mess with visual at all.

Not to many pictures but look in the thread right under this.

[Desert Dog]

[quote="munepit"]Why do people mount them to the hood? Never understood that. Why not on the back bumper? Doesn't it impede vision? [/quote]
Doesn't really kill the vision at all, as long as you sit tall enough in the seat. Short people might have a problem. For people that wheel in the rocks frequently, hi-lifts don't last very long when on the front or rear bumpers. Several club members have bent / broke theirs on the trail. I bend one up like a pretzel when it was mounted to the front of my XJ.

The only real negative to the hood mounts is that you are limited to a small hi-lift. The big 60" jacks stick out the sides too much and get caught on trees / rocks. Most jeeps with 37"+ tires can't even use the small hi-lift (a 60" high lift wont lift a tire off the ground on my jeep, I have to chain the axle to the frame)

[Trainhop91]

[quote="munepit"]Why do people mount them to the hood? Never understood that. Why not on the back bumper? Doesn't it impede vision?

Pics of sliders?[/quote]


Sorry I haven't gotten some pictures up I'll do that ASAP. Need to download them to the computer still. I've rode in his jeep since then and I had no problem seeing past it.

[Trainhop91]

Here they are, I mounted them but since I bolted them on I'll be taking them off later on and cutting the edges down and capping the ends off. Other then that I think they look great ha. They seem to have helped in stiffening the unibody a bit as well!