The Carburetor Chronicles

Larin Motorcycle Jack

You have just got love a woman who gets it. 

This motorcycle  jack was a gift from my wife. The manufacturer is Larin.  I know exactly nothing about the company, but I really like the jack.

She also bought me the stool seen in a lot of the rebuild pictures.  I have gotten requests for info about the jack after it was seen in other pictures. She bought it for me at Costco, but it is essentially the same jack sold at Sears. 

I am told that the Sears jack is missing some of the nice touches on this jack; the tie down points you see at the ends of the platform, the square bracket and the screw-in frame supports.

It isn't perfect and it does not work on all bikes. If your exhaust goes under your frame or oil pan it will not work.  The R60/2 exhaust runs lower than the frame and oil pan so when the exhaust is on the bike the jack does not work. The jack comes with some mounts that might work for some bikes where the exhaust runs under, but not on the /2.

There are a lot of photos of it in use on the rebuild section on the R100.

The jack lifts up the bike high enough that you can sit on a stool and get nearly all of the important parts. Not having to lay on concrete (as I write the outside temp is - 4) make this thing worth about four times what my lovely wife paid for it.  Putting a bike on the jack is a little bit of a chore but not too bad.  Much easier if two people do it than if you wrestle with it alone, but it can be done alone.  Ratchet straps are a necessity for stability.  My R100 has sat on the jack for weeks at a time with incident, but of course your mileage may vary.

Here is the jack with out any brackets.

Here is the jack with the square bracket. I need the bracket for the R100, and it still has to set on the jack just a little cross ways because the oil drain plug would sit in the jack, putting a lot of weight on the surface of the plug.  Using ratchet straps makes a pretty secure mount, without the bike would fall over in about three minutes . . . max.

Here is the jack with the frame brackets. I have not used these brackets yet so I cannot vouch for them.

I am pretty happy with the jack. Without it I am not sure how I would have managed the projects you see on this site.

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