d_yarnell wrote:
Got the jack appart tonight to find threads sheared from nut. The threads were stuck in thes screw shaft. I think I can fix it. Anyone else fixed one. Any ideas where to find a nut that will work?
My LCI jack had the same problem with the nut being stripped out and I too thought I could fix it. The problem is that the nut and threaded shaft are not normal threads. They are left handed Acme threads with an abnormal number of threads per inch. I looked and looked online and found nothing that would work short of replacing the rod and nut with a more common thread and having the top of the rod machined to fit the key chuck that goes into the motor assembly. The cost of doing this was about the same as a new Barker jack and at the end of the day I would still have a crappy LCI jack.
