Recent content by Kidd-7

Here a pic from when it was stuck. I believe that is the smaller piston, hard to tell from the pic though.

It happens when off load. It will incrementally raise overall. Meaning it goes up, come down a little then goes up and down a little. Overall after a few pumps it higher, stays up and would hold my weight (which ain't much compared to a car).

I had some time to play with this today. I added some oil and pumped it a ~10 times. It now will go more up than down, but is still going down with lifting the handle. One note, when I opened up the fill hole there was air released, not sure if I need to purge more air out or not. I'll work on...

Thanks for the insights here, I'll be giving this a try and report back.

I was directed over here from another forum to seek the wisdom of hiball. The pic below is the jack I have, it's about 3-5 years old and as of Saturday it will not longer stay up. When I pump the handle the platform goes up and down. I placed the front of the car up on stands, changed the oil...