Our first true experience with this was back in the early days when we were competing in a 3000-mile rally from the US border to Cabo San Lucas and back.
Somewhere in a high-speed, whooped-out section south of San Felipe, we were hearing a noise in the rear end we needed to check out.
We jumped out to do a quick visual and found barbed wire wrapped around the driveshaft. We also noticed our 3-ton Pro Eagle was gone, mount and all.
We had underestimated the beating that the truck was taking and the welds to the custom mounting plate simply snapped. With no idea how far back we lost it, we pushed on.
About an hour laterwe heard somebody asking us to use our jackover the radio. Little did we know that the truck that had been on our tail all day, who are also friends of ours, had come across our jack in the middle of the course and picked it up and wanted to mess with us a bit.
After some friendly smack talk we got our jack back and to our surprise, it barely had a scratch on it after tumbling down the racecourse at speed. It still worked flawlessly so we strapped it down and kept moving. That same mount still holds that exact jack on one of our chase trucks today.
The most memorable and probably notorious use of a Pro Eagle Jack happened in May of 2023 about 50 miles south of San Ignacio on our way to Scorpion Bay.We were shredding up some Baja Sur dirt when one of the trucks hit a corner with a little too much sauce and ended up blowing the left rear end off of the truck.
We were in a pretty remote spot in a mix of dirt, silt, and lava fields. Our chase crew got as close as they could but this still left us about 10 miles away from the trailer.
When we are down south it is a regular occurrence to have to use a “Baja fix”, but this one was one for the books. With no other optionwe took a brand-new Pro Eagle 3-ton jack and strapped it to the snapped rear end in place of the tire.
We had no idea if this was going to work at all but somehow when the lead truck started to tow the disabled dinosaur the big Pro Eagle wheels started rolling and we were off.
Mile after mile this jack rolled and bulldozed over rocks, through silt, and everything in between ultimately getting us to the awaiting chase truck and trailer.
How this piece of equipment meant to lift things literally carried a fully loaded prerunner over the surface of Mars is still completely insane to think about.
Over the years we have used every Pro Eagle jack that exists, andwhen we say “used” we mean “USED”.
With thousands of Baja miles and hundreds of trucks along for the ride, issues are inevitable, there is no way around it. Some of these issues have happened in sand, silt, rocks, washes, lava fields, and beaches.
We have never had a Pro Eagle failure, ever. 7/10 of our customers have Pro Eagle Jacks when they arrive on our trips, and the rest end up buying one when they get back stateside.
Some jacks may look equal in press photos or in the pits, but when you see the reality of what these things can do in truly gnarly situations, there is no doubt what you want holding your vehicle up while you work under it, what you want to help get a three wheeled vehicle on a trailer, or what you trust to use as a wheel when things get really bad.
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