Here's what I made tonight to hold my HiLift










I did circles around my truck trying to think of a place to mount the HiLift, but came up empty handed. I haven't built a front bumper and this is too long to fit inside and still have two passengers in the back. So I mounted it as shown to the 2x4 bumper car bumper that I built a couple years ago.

I used 1.25" square tubing for the H frame that the lift will mount to and made hinges out of 1.5" 1/8 wall square tubing. The smaller tubing fits perfectly inside the larger stuff. The hinge points are 3/8" bolts w/ nylon lock nuts. I found some pins at Home Depot to hold it in the up position which I will eventaully chain to the H frame so they don't get lost.

I plan on welding a few bolts in place with wingnuts to hold the jack on (the picture just shows some bolts and nuts I had lying around).

Total cost: $10 in hardware and leftover material from when I built my rock sliders.

This isn't a permanent solution. When I build my cage, I plan to mount it up top. But for now it should work well and still allows the tailgate to drop.

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