Hood mounted high lift jack?

Hey there y’all. I want to mount a high lift jack on my 2000 4Runner. I have fabrication experience and all the tools needed to make some custom brackets to mount it. And I was thinking of drilling through the hood in front of the windshield sprayers and far enough away that it wouldn’t hit the windshield when the hood is open. However I’ve only seen that done on Jeep’s but I see no reason why I couldn’t do something similar. Can anyone think of a reason why it might be a bad idea??

 

Besides being GAF? No.

 

Keep this in mind...a Hi-Lift jack is heavy and dense weight. Most of the hood mounts I've seen are weak...and you're mounting it to thin sheet metal. If you get rear-ended at a high rate of speed, that Hi-Lift jack now becomes a heavy projectile that will likely break off or rip off the mounts and go through the windshield into your face.

Conversely, if you run into someone at a high rate of speed, the jack becomes a projectile into their vehicle if it's mounted that high on a flat surface with a weak mounting mechanism.

 

Just mount it to a custom rear bumper or roof rack.

 

Roof rack mount is the way to go imo