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2 post lift. Install finally starting
- Thread starter shady
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Fockn be careful man ouch!
Lift looks good. Nice work… besides the blood!
Lift looks good. Nice work… besides the blood!
I'm going to do something around the lower lip to seal it better and make it look good.
Probably have that in tomorrow or so.
Waiting till Friday for the pink board insulation on the outside of the box.
And I made sure to put some more plywood around the box so I don't fall through doing it
Probably have that in tomorrow or so.
Waiting till Friday for the pink board insulation on the outside of the box.
And I made sure to put some more plywood around the box so I don't fall through doing it
I love twin post in ground just to dam expensive
Only real worry to me, at least if the newer ones are like the old one we had at work... the in ground ones don't have the safety locks.
Ours didn't anyway. Pop a line or blow a seal and it's coming down. Only thing holding ours up was the hydraulics.
I'm sure it'd go down slow enough to get out of the way probably. Buuttt.... what if it didn't? Lol
Ours was a real old service station style single ram.
Ours didn't anyway. Pop a line or blow a seal and it's coming down. Only thing holding ours up was the hydraulics.
I'm sure it'd go down slow enough to get out of the way probably. Buuttt.... what if it didn't? Lol
Ours was a real old service station style single ram.
yeah the new ones have locking system you raise it up flip a lever with your toe and the open the hydraulic dead man valve. Bottom of platform had pin that resets the lever so next raise it automatically locks. Some of our old medium truck lifts had no safety locks we use tall jack stands, under the saddles. they were installed in 1964 and worked great. Someone couldn't see past the non locks even those there had never been fault. Those great working in ground 2 post were all torn out and replaced with Chinese garbage, By Peterson hydraulic, contract winner, who hired some fly by night dude with a back hoe and bucket of pipe fittings to remove and install the new ones. 8 of them. 1st issue the rear ground boxes for the saddle to drop down into were to wide. If the cover doors are close as raise the lift it is designed to open them the old one worked perfectly, new ones would hit the diff and not clear the saddle. Had to be opened before moving a truck on the lift and then closed after moving the truck. Hmm big gaping whole in the ground for someone fall in while moving the truck. Next issue they all leaked more oil then the 40 something year olds they replaced Peterson Hydraulics sent out 2 "techs" to repair the leaks, and failing control valves. Idiots left the electric pump running cavitating, low on oil for an hour. I chewed them out for it, pump was damaged they left, never came back bunch of tools and crap left laying around, took Peterson 6 month to replace that pump. never did fix 3 of 6 leaking piping to the cylinders. Low F'ing bid gotta love it
Now all that's left is doing 1.5" pink board on the outside and sealing gaps tomorrow. Then the whole process is complete
Already have a few things lined up, including a couple side jobs, to use it for.
And having it will allow me to do some things I wanted to do on a couple of my projects.
Things I didn't think were feasible, just because I'm not young enough to want to go through all the BS anymore.
Pulling bodies off frames with floor jacks and 4x4's is for the birds.... Fock that lol.
Already have a few things lined up, including a couple side jobs, to use it for.
And having it will allow me to do some things I wanted to do on a couple of my projects.
Things I didn't think were feasible, just because I'm not young enough to want to go through all the BS anymore.
Pulling bodies off frames with floor jacks and 4x4's is for the birds.... Fock that lol.
