How To Refill And Purge A Hydraulic Bottle Jack

I will show you how to ad oil to your bottle jack. This will keep it performing properly. When you first buy a jack you will need to bleed the jack of any air. Manufactures may not put enough oil in so a top up of oil is often necessary. Purging a bottle jack of air can help fix a jack that won’t lift or won’t stay lifted

[Don_ECHOguy]

Rescued two jacks from the local County Recycling, one worked and the other would not until I used your purge instructions... all good now. Many Thanks!

[andybailey]

Had a jack lay on its side in my truck toolbox and leak. This was exactly how i needed to refill the jack. Thanks.

[GoViking]

I can’t believe with 43, 000 views you only get this many likes & comments. Thanks for sharing the knowledge 👍🏽

[michelleinthemeadow]

Thanks for the video. I opened my bottle jack too much and lost quite a bit of oil. Glad to know how to fill and bleed. Thank you.

[dmullinax]

That's exactly what I was looking for how far to fill it. Thanks for keeping this video short and to-the-point I appreciate it.

[BrigT]

This video was so awesome!! Thank you so much for taking the time. Shirt, sweet and to the point without all the rambling...
Thank you!!

[mkironman]

A1. Clear and concise. I was adding oil but not doing anything else. no wonder my jack only lifted 2 inches. Much appreciated.

[johnclamshellsp]

Thank you for this great tutorial video on filling a hydraulic jack. Just got a engine lift and jack low on fluid.
Thank you
JA

[paulrobertss]

I got a bottle jack for my boat trailer. Put in the back of my SUV and had to lay it on it's side to stow it. Most all of the Oil leaked out, so this video was perfect, thanks!

[nsxt]

Good video. I have 2 bottle Jacks that should get an oil change. I'll try your method

[spiveym]

Thanks man! You helped me salvage a jack I thought had blown a seal - it just had low oil.

[mikemm]

Thank you, straight and to the point 👍

[t.c.]

Thanks for mainly the upright refilling, oil leveling, & bleeding process young man!👍🏾...WILL like & sub!

[michaelfornes]

With your help, I just got a bottle jack from 1983 working again. It wouldn't extend all the way under load.

[grahamgodden]

Briliiant ! Thanks for sharing that, the manufacturer's instructions aren't very clear.

[TheWhiteleather]

Could have saved $45 if I saw this vid before cursing my jack for ruining my trousers and buying a new one.

Still managed to salvage the old one. Only cost me $5 in oil and a new seal.

Still need to buy another pair of trousers...but the others were beat.

Cheers!

[wesbellmore]

Very refreshing to watch a how to video when the guy doesn’t say “go ahead and” two hundred times

[dr.awkward]

I just bought a 20 ton jack from Amazon. It arrived with all the oil leaked out all over the box. It won't lift at all. I'm going to try to fix it with the help of this video. Wish me luck!

[steven.h]

I love how most jack videos show exactly what a pain in the butt it is pulling and replacing the rubber oil plug 👍😎✊

[Ms_AP_]

Does this work for air hydraulic jacks too? Where does the oil ho anyways?