How to Fill and Bleed a Floor Jack

How to fill up your floor jack with hydraulic oil and bleed the air out of it. This will improve the functionality of your jack and prolong its life. It is not hard and you don’t need special tools.

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[electric]

Also a good idea to wipe and clean around the fill hole to eliminate dirt, dust etc from going in the hole when you add oil.

[pendragonshall]

I would recommend for anyone reading to NOT use stop leak in a new floor jack. Only in an older one of several years or if it's starting to leak. Stop leak causes swelling in any rubber or gaskets which while great for older or leaking jacks is not good for perfectly good new or only a couple years old jack. It lengthens the life span on old gaskets but shortens it on new in other words

[louismendoza]

Concise direct to the point Nice video

[oscarp]

This jack is branded NAPA in the states. Mine is exactly the same as yours but its painted navy blue. Thanks for the lesson.

[ejewell]

Great info. I'd only like to add that while you're performing this maintenance, give any grease fittings a shot or two of a good quality grease. 😁

[MrSpandya]

how do you get the old fluid out first?

[Cmimss]

I did this, but everytime I try to lift something it doesn't go no higher than 6 inches maybe.. its a 2.5 floor jack

[gabrielneipp]

My floor jack has plug instead of a screw. The jack lifts, but the plug shoots out if weight is put on it. I can't see the weight rating as the sticker has faded, but I don't believe it is that as I don't even need to put my full bodyweight on it. Am I doing something wrong, or is it a bumb jack. (Jack is definitely on the older side, although I don't know how much)

[alexavierD]

Thanks for the vid but, aren't you supposed to pump it wiith the bleeder screw off/loose to let the air out as you pump and afterwards retighten the bleeder screw? How is the air suppposed to escape while pumping it while the bleeder screw is closed?

[mrbreezeet]

I don't quite understand how full you're supposed to fill these I've read a few different things several different things but I still don't understand it it said something about a secondary cylinder top of the secondary cylinder or something I don't understand it?

[markmatias]

Is that a canadian geese on the background? Otherwise helpful video.

[busancun]

Watched several videos about how to bleed, but different videos show different methods. Which method is the standard one?

[Mike-werb]

Fixed my Jack cuz wasn’t lifting. Now it can only lift 200 pounds. Not my car

[evelynmahoney]

Well intentioned but his hand is blocking what needs to be seen by the viewer.

[nineteen-sixty-nine]

Theres no such thing as stop leak jack/hydraulic fluid/oil! Also please check the jack with a load on it as it can be very dangerous!