Bendpak going up tonight
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Burl
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I'm in the market for the same lift. Good luck.
ct03911
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Nice
LX-Markham
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Beauty!
....and you opted for the black
nice
....and you opted for the black
niceMonte406SS
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I got a quote for the same one and am ready to pull the trigger, just waiting for the garage door guys to do their thing. I am going to follow this one for sure as I am on the fence of installing it myself or paying someone. Local guy wants $1,000 to take delivery, install and supply oil. Seems high. Good luck!
It all depends on how you value your time. For me, I enjoy doing stuff like this and am not really in a hurry to get it done. I took the cash I saved and bought a nice engine hoist that I always wanted, a laser level that I'll use a lot on other projects, the materials to build some nice heavy duty moving dollies which will also get used frequently, will rent a hammer drill for the 16 x 3/4 anchor bolt holes and still had a few hundred left. Some will say they make x per hour so it costs them as much to do it themselves. I am paid by the year, not the hour and like I said...I enjoy projects like this. You also probably couldn't pay me enough to put somebody else's lift in for them because then it would be work and not a hobby.
If you have a floor jack (mainly to get the package up on blocks so the legs of the hoist could go under it), a few decent moving dollies (maybe not needed if you have lots of room to maneuver), a cherry picker / engine hoist and a basic laser level you can do it yourself. Once the cross beams and ladders are in the posts (while laying down), my wife (who could probably not pick up a 5 gallon pail of water) and I easily stood each end upright. The individual posts are actually light enough for one guy to just lift and carry. The cross beams are pretty heavy but not too bad. The runways are the heavy part, the power side is probably 700+ pounds. I can still do that alone with the cherry picker (we'll find out tonight).
I'd document this with 100 pictures and 5000 words but that takes the fun out of it for me. If I was in a hurry and the floor was pretty level, I could do a second one in well under a day. This one, if you count the time I spent staring at the floor deciding where to put it, reading the manual, cutting shims since I have several inches of slope to deal with, and pausing every other minute to look up at the TV, I'll probably have 40 hours in it
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Yeah, I did mine by myself with a cherry picker. Just be careful you don't knock over your posts & crossbeam with the first ramp as you're positioning it. Once you have the first ramp in place and bolted in you're home free.
marksland
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Subscribed.....Ordered my HD-9XW last weeek and it shipped today. I'm also on the fence of installing mine or hiring it out. Local installers want $850 and up. Since I'm not in a hurry and I have a machine to move it, I'm leaning towards taking my time and doing it myself.
jayoldschool
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Uh, yeah. Unless you meant "he" seems high.
Angelfire
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Thanks for the post and information. I will eventually install one of these myself so all of these install threads are interesting to me. Just curious on one of your pictures. It appears you placed the two columns nearest your G-Door on a raised pad of sorts but didn't raise the two columns furthest from the door. Just curious to know if this is part of the standard install or you're trying to adjust the level of the lift for some reason?
Cheers
Cheers
NewShockerGuy
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Looking good!
I didn't realize how much real estate 4 posts lifts actually take up.
-Nigel
I didn't realize how much real estate 4 posts lifts actually take up.
-Nigel
cajunfirehawk
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Awesome, wondering why you got the wide version of the hd9? I also see you opted for the extra $ for black, nice the way it all ties in, kudos. Hoping Santa brings me an HD9
The wide gives you more room between the runways to work on the underside of a vehicle and the standard width would have been narrower between the posts than the width of my 8 Ft door. With it so close to the door, I didn't want that. I did a lot of measuring before I decided, with the extra tall I can get well over 6 feet clearance under the runways with my Mustang still well clear of the door opener. I fortunately have 12' 9" ceilings to work with. A few years back, Bendpak revised the design of this lift so that its only 110 inches wide overall.
Luckily, this lift was best for my situation and could be had in black. I also considered Atlas, Direct and Rotary Revolution plus a few others. I would have had a hard time deciding if I had to go with blue to get what I wanted dimension wise.
The primary use, at least in the winter is car storage but I can back my 19'4" long F150 on and raise it even with the lift so close to the door..... assuming I measured correctly. We'll see. The rear bumper will have to be within 6 inches of my toolboxes to pull that stunt.
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darkk
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My son and I installed ours in a couple nights. Not hard and doesn't take long. Really simple. Just read the instructions a couple times so it all makes sense.
We took it off the truck with an engine hoist and one of those $10 Harbor Freight moving dollies. We didn't bolt it to the floor. Didn't seem necessary considering it's got 4 posts. It's been in for around 3 years now and hasn't come anywhere near falling over so it was a good move. I'd do it myself and save the money.
Good luck.
We took it off the truck with an engine hoist and one of those $10 Harbor Freight moving dollies. We didn't bolt it to the floor. Didn't seem necessary considering it's got 4 posts. It's been in for around 3 years now and hasn't come anywhere near falling over so it was a good move. I'd do it myself and save the money.
Good luck.
I'm going to bolt but mainly because of the floor level issue. Along with the almost 3" front to back, I have issues within the 10 x 12 inch footprint of a few posts. The shims are drilled at the bolt locations with the same diameter as the bolts (3/4 "). The bolts will insure the stacks stay aligned and the whole thing doesn't walk on me over time. The shims are a fiberglass reinforced composite with a very high compressive strength. No worry that It will even be close to ever crushing but pretty confident the whole stack would eventually walk downhill. The stacks are layered with epoxy and are basically as solid as concrete.
Monte406SS
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Thanks and it looks great. I am more concerned about the delivery, so I may look to see what can be done since I have an engine hoist. My street is very busy and would be a bear to get it in via a trailer. Good luck with your install.
Junkman
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I had mine delivered to the local lumber yard, and they dropped it in front of my garage with their fork lift boom, that they deliver sheet rock and roofing shingles with. They are not difficult to put up, and easier if you have some friends helping. I put up one of mine (I've had 3) with my wife, and another one with my 75 year old neighbor. If you have a floor jack, and some old tires and wheels to put under the runways, it makes it even easier. Read through all the assembly threads, and you will find pictures and helpful hints. Saving $1000 will go a long way to paying for a rolling jack.
Here is the thread and pictures from 2008... Hard to believe that it was that long ago.
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Biz Jet Tech
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New guy here.....Hope you guys don't mind if I ask how much you have been paying for this lift and where you found the best price?
Thanks
Prices don't vary much from what you see on the Bendpak website so find a local guy with similar pricing. The wide, long, tall 9k version will run a little north of $3000 shipped. I did get mine all snugged up to the floor last week and took the summer car for its maiden voyage to test it. I was able to get about 6'8" under the runways with room to spare above the car.New guy here.....Hope you guys don't mind if I ask how much you have been paying for this lift and where you found the best price?
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Biz Jet Tech
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Thanks, I did not see prices on the bendpak website. Nice looking set up you have there. Is that a GUV I see on the left side of the pic? Where did you buy it?
Maybe I just looked at multiple sellers but I thought I saw prices on the Bendpak site (I looked at a lot of lifts). Regardless, just Google: Bendpak + the model number and you'll find Northern, Amazon, best buy auto equipment, summit, aes, and a half dozen other equipment retailers sell them. Add your state to the search and you'll narrow it some and also find the local guys that sell to repair shops and car dealers. There is at least on member here who became a reseller to facilitate a group buy... that may be an option but I can't say I looked at it. The guys I bought from are 10 miles away and are very well established.
It is a GUV (Hoover), I think I found an Ebay seller that was under Amazon pricing. Again... use the Google, it works. Its fine to vacuum car interiors and general clean up but it isn't a super strong shop vac. I'll hook up to my miter saw when cutting 2x4's and it handles that pretty well but the big standard shop vac I have in the basement has way more suction. I'd buy it again because floor space is at a premium and it does fine in most cases..... just a warning its not incredibly powerful.
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