Replacement Handle and Crank Kit for Fulton F2 Swing-Up Jacks

Video Transcript for Comprehensive Review: Replacement Handle and Crank Kit for Fulton F2 Swing-Up Jacks

Today we're going to be taking a look at the rebuild process for the Fulton Reem F2 Series or XLT series jack with the 1500 pound capacity. Few of the replacement parts we have available are going to be 1, the top cap. These can sometimes get damaged and it's a really good idea to make sure that you have a good quality 1 on there so dirt, debris, stuff like that's not going to get inside the jack and cause issues. The cap's part number is F500324. Underneath our cap, we're going to find our gear kit in there. The gear kit is going to be what actually drives that jack up and down. Comes with all the hardware and the pins that we're going to need to do the replacement.

That part number's going to be F500314. Below that, we'll have our bearing kit in there. That part number's going to be F500137. This is going to be what helps reduce any of the friction, so we don't have metal on metal contact, and again, hardware there. Also, the replacement handle. If your handle's been damaged, something that's very easily replaceable. Part number on that is F500134. Now, these few simple components can be used to completely rebuild your jack, so you don't have to replace it with a brand new 1.

This is going to give us a very easy solution to just keep all those components that don't really wear and tear and be able to rebuild it. Basically have a brand new jack when we get done. We're going to set our parts over to the side here. Give us some room to work on the jack. First thing we're going to do is remove the cap located here on the top. You can use either a quarter inch bit driver or a flat head screwdriver.

You just want to remove the small self inaudible 00:01:41 screw. Not a lot to it there. I'm just pushing in slightly and out. Then that should allow us to lift that up off of the grease there, although sometimes it does kind of grab a hold of it there. Just lift that up and off. Of course, at that point, you just replace your new 1 if that's all you we're doing.

The larger hole is the 1 you'll use to slide down over the greasesert 00:02:09 and then just tip the top in. Replace your screw. Pretty straight forward there. This here, this is a fairly new jack and you'll see that Marine grade grease that they have in there. When doing your rebuild, you do want to ensure that you do have Marine grade grease available, that way you can replace it with the same. We don't want to put something in there that might not have the water resistance we're looking for. I'm going to get this cleaned off here. As we clean it, what we're looking for is going to be that little dimple that's in our gear. Same thing here. That's where our pin rests. Rests right through there, so we'll take a punch and a hammer. This is a 3/16 punch. Tends to work out pretty well to be the right size. We'll just use our punch and our hammer. We want to drive that pin through. Now, we'll have a little bit of room we can do it straight on, but there in a minute, we'll have to turn it sideways slightly so we drive it out on an angle. Again, once we get it started there, kind of turn it to where it's slightly angled and continue tapping it out. Pull our punch out. Once that pin's out, we should be able to just lift straight up on that handle. Now, when you go that, that gear's going to want to fall out as will as the little spacer bushing that fits of the outside, so set those aside. Now, we've got our base gear and keep in mind both our gears are the same. 1 just sits on the bottom and 1 sits on the side there. We get that pulled out. Then, if we'll look in the tube, you see the top of our screws right there. There's a pin that passes through it. Now, this just sits in there. It's not in there with any pressure or anything. We want to get that pulled out. We'll stand our jack up. We're going to lift that straight up and off there. We slide the outer tube off of the inner tube there. Now, when we do that, there's going to be this little plate in here. Watch for that. Sometimes it likes to come out of there, and on top of that's going to be 1 of the washers. That's going to be the washer that comes with the gear kit right here. The thicker black washer. Pull that off of there. We can pull that plate out and you'll see it's just a hollow tube. Not a lot to them. Just put that back in there and look at our bearing kit real quick. See our bearing This is just going to sit down on top of that screw. Just going to pull off there. 1 is that larger thrust washer which also comes with the new bearing kit. At this point, we're ready to put it back together. Take the thrust washer of our new bearing kit. We'll take our new bearing. Slide that down on. Now, we just need to get 2 sections of our jack put back together. Now, as we put the 2 of these together, we just want to ensure that that small raised, look at that, rounded hump rides right down in the groove that's here on the inner tube. Then once we've got that in place, it should slide nice and freely. If we just want to bring that screw portion right up through that plate. Now we can take the flat washer that we removed. We're going to slide that back on. We've got the shorter, larger diameter pin that's going to slide into our top of our screw, there. Just like that. Now, of course, we're going to reuse the gears that came out since it's a brand new jack, but you'll be putting in new gears. We just want to make sure the enclosed little groove in there goes right down on top of that pin. You'll know it's seated properly because that screw's going to be almost flush with the top of the gear. First we'll put our bushing in. Outside edge there. We'll take our gear. We're going to position that so that the teeth of this gear mesh with the teeth of that gear. We'll just hold that as we slide it through. Need that to come through. All the way through the other side there. Now we need to rotate our gear kit slightly here to where we have that little indention facing us. We'll pull our handle out so that the hole in the handle lines up with that indention. Now we'll take our small pin there. Line that up with the hole in our handle and get it tapped back into position. Just check for good, smooth operation. You'll see that our pin is a little bit off center, so just want to make sure we get it about equal sides coming out on both sides there. All right. Looks good. We just want to take your marine grease and put a little bit more in there. We left some, but it's never going to hurt. Can't overgease the jack. All right. That should be more than enough there. We just want to get our cap put back on there. Reusing that same little self inaudible 00:08:13 here. That same set screw that we have before. We'll be ready to put our jack back to good use. We hope you find this video helpful in showing that with a few simple parts, you can rebuild your jack rather than doing a complete replacement.