As it happens, I've been there, done that, with the jack that came with the truck. It did a fine job.

 

Hi lift Jack would work great as well. It's cheap too.

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ive used the screw type bottle jack that came with my tundra and it worked fine but after the lift and tires it was no good. so i went down to harbor freight and grabbed a 4 Ton bottle jack for $20 and it works fine. i have to use a block of wood to jack up up the rear but other than that the jack can be stored on it side in the same place as the bottle jack the truck came with.

 

Thanks. Think I'll get a hydraulic jack and a couple of pieces of treated 2x4's just in case. Better have and not need than to need and not have. I also had to pickup a different lug nut wrench right after I bought it because stock wrench would not work with the aftermarket wheels the dealer installed. And to top it off, The security wrench didn't come with it either so Had to borrow the special tool used to remove them when you don't have the special socket. I replaced them with standard lug nuts because I've never had, nor heard of tires being stolen anywhere around here.

 

My garage jack sucks and I've been frustrated with it for over a decade. I hate it but have not bought another one because the damned thing works. I don't "trust" it as I always use jack stands and I have to use the darned block of wood technique every time because it is so small. I have had my eye on a Harbor Freight aluminum 3 ton low profile jack. I may pull the trigger soon because I'm tired of the discount auto parts tiny jack that I have. Glad I got that off my chest. It always comes down to money...

 

i have the 3 ton HFT jack and its awesome. its a bit heavy for aluminum but lifts like a boss.

 

Unless a comet takes out the world in the next 3 months... I'm buying a HF jack... just can't beat the price.

 

Hey... I wanted to add this because I just remembered it... If you were not the dude who put your own wheels on, you may want to check to see if you can even get your lug nuts off. I do my own rotations, but my wife took my Sequoia in to have the tires rotated by the animals at Sears here in Key West while I was in Afghanistan. Fast forward about 7500 miles and I tried everything to get them off. I broke two breaker bars, bent the factory lug wrench almost 40 degrees and still only got one lug off of the front left. I went in to Sears and was livid. The smart ass behind the counter told me to pull it around and he would show me how to take lug nuts off. Game on *******. He used a 1/2" long breaker with a massive wrench for leverage. He got one after a serious amount of cursing and grunting. He popped off two stud right in front of me and could not get the others off. He tried another tire and snapped two more studs. I was foaming at the mouth. He said that I must have over tightened them. Thankfully one of the mechanics in the back (the only own worth a **** in my opinion) recognized my Afghan camo pants and struck up a conversation with me. He looked at the paperwork that my wife got when she got the rotation. Turns out the mechanic (animal) that did the work had been fired shortly after doing the rotation. Apparently he used a tractor trailer air gun without a torque stick to put the lugs on. Every one of them was torqued at over 450 lbs. Every one of them were ruined. Most of them snapped when the tractor trailer air gun was used on the lift to get the tires off. They wanted to cut me a deal and charge me $500 for 24 lugs being replaced. A few calls to Sears corporate fixed that. Never again.

Do it yourself. I was in a pickle and my wife had to get the truck serviced while I was walking in the desert with Achmed, but if you have the option, do it yourself. I generally go between 60-80 lbs per stud and that makes it somewhat easy to get the nuts off if you have to use that ridiculous factory wrench on the side of the road.

 

Thanks for your service, and sorry to hear about the trouble. Hopefully, the hubs and rotors were not destroyed. Sears definitely has a training and hiring problem. Managers have a very lax attitude these days.
Achmed made me laugh. Why were you walking with him anyways, lol, silence I kill you.

 

Achmed made me laugh. Why were you walking with him anyways, lol, silence I kill you.

LOL. Jeff Dunham is a riot.

 

I have Harbor Freight's 3-ton low profile steel jack at home ($50 during some sale). It's heavy, but reliable and gets the job done. Jacks up the Sequoia just fine, and even fits under my sister and cousin's M3s.