The one for my 460 started to leak too.  On mine it was the seal for the telescoping center portion that started leaking.  The outer portion is easy enough to get apart byt turning the big hex nut looking thing on top the whole top of the jack unscrews and the ram comes out with that top nut.  If yours is leaking from either of the canister seals, you can get to those that way.  But once you get that far, I got stuck.  In order to get to the ram seals you need to unscrew a cap form the bottom of the ram.  That cap requires a face-type pin spanner, which I have, but the tough part is holding the ram while you try to turn the cap.  I haven't been able to hold it tightly enough without fear of damaging the smooth surface which would of course render it useless.

I was told a couple years ago by Travis, then of Europa, that you could still buy the jack and that the rebuild kit was nearly the cost of the jack.  Both were too expensive to make it to the top of my list yet, so I'm still hauling a Hi-Lift around.

My next method for holding the jack ram was going to be to get a 2-piece collar held together by bolts and machine the ID of the collar to match the OD of the ram.  Weld the collar to a bar of steel, clamp the ram in the collar, and hold the bar in a vise.  I even thought of making a 2-pin spanner out of an old impact socket.  I'm sure I could get it apart that way.

Once apart I could take the seals by the local bearing house and see if they could match something up for me.  That way would probably be cheaper than MB if the seals could be had.  But I've had bigger fish to fry, and the Hi-Lift works okay, even if it does take up too much room.

-Dave G.

I too went with the Landrover replacement but I used the Discovery jack and this does fit under the bonnet with a little bit of grinding of the base to fit the existing bracket. FWIW

 John