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To be a little more specific, my 32 foot fiberglass layer is hard to handle with only one person. Most of the time I need to climb onto my roof, I am the only one home. With 2 people, it is not a problem. I have shrubbery and an overhang where I can set the ladder. I can carry it by myself and...

I have a 32 foot fiberglass ladder, I think type 1a or whatever is the highest weight capacity. It is very heavy when extended, much heavier then an aluminum ladder. I am a strong guy, but I hate using this ladder because of the weight. If I was to do it again, I would get an aluminum or a...

Back in my college days, me and a friend decided to pull the 400ci long block out of his late 60's charger. Since we were into weight lifting, we bolted a chain to the block, looped it around a bench pressing bar, put the bar on our shoulders, and squatted the engine out of the engine bay. We...

Mine has worked fine and lifts fairly evenly, within 1". I have been using it a lot lately, changed the catback and replaced the fuel pump on my 2000 Trans Am. The fuel pump replacement required lowering the rear so the entire gas tank can be pulled out of the car. I don't think I would have...

On mine, both bottom ports are labeled in. One of the ports has a steel plug in it, while the other 3 have a plastic plug in them that is red plastic which was painted black. From what I remember, 3 of the ports had a plug that a wrench would take off while the steel one needs an allen head bit...

I haven't had that issue and I am pretty sure that once I had disconnected the lines before the arms were 100% down. I needed to clean up an oil spill (unrelated to the lift) where one of the arms would contact the floor,so I lowered the arms until I could remove them from underneath the car...

I placed mine at 123" since this worked well with one bay of my two bay garage. This spacing is perfect from my 2000 Trans Am because of the short wheel base and the frame is closer to the outside of the car. When I lifted my wife's 2007 Impala, I realized that the 123" is the max spacing for...

My loaded 04 Avalanche would be a perfect guinea pig for this lift. It weighs ~5800 lbs without fuel according to the dealer invoice paperwork that I got when I bought it. Unfortunately, I don't have the height in my garage to lift it. Your silverado should be < 6000lbs as long as it is a 1500...

I finished my install today. I probably have ~8 hours total time for the install including determining the location of the columns. I used 9 quarts of ATF and had no issues bleeding My anchors reached 100 ft/lb well before the top surface of my concrete. I had to trim my washers a little bit to...

I don't mind at all. A few pics of the Max-Jax in the back of my truck are up there. Hopefully I will get my anchors in shortly. I determined the best location in my garage based upon the cars I currently own last weekend. Hopefully this weekend it will be operational. I got quite a few uses...

It was very top heavy, I was afraid it was going to tip over when they were loading it into the back of my truck. I was sweating the whole ride home because I was afraid it was going to tip even though I wedged a few pallets on the side to give it more support. The only casualty I had was one...

Picked up my maxjax today. I need to take a full inventory, but it looks good so far minus a couple of the wheels. Looks like one wheel vaporized while being shipped and another broke as soon as I put some weight on it. It is kind of odd that just the bolt was left, no remnants of the wheel at...

Cool idea. For you safety, I wanted to make sure you knew not to have the post at the edge of the slab. Looks like you have it under control. Did you build the cobra?

FUNFER2, I thought there was supposed to be a minimum of 4" from the bolts to the edge of the floor. It looks like yours is right at the edge.

Instead of complaining on the internet, I contacted Jeff/Gabe asking if I could still get some type of discount because I was not able to participate in the group purchase. The deal they offered far exceeded my expectations. I knew going into the group purchase, that there would be a very small...