Buying a new lift.......watch this video

[ekimneirbo]

I posted this video over in the Tools section but thought it might help some people by being in the Garage section also. Notice that it only failed when pushed to extreme limits, but it did move a bit with just a heavy load. When my son and I lift something heavy we place 4 tall jack stands under the vehicle. He has a Dodge Megacab Diesel. We used two stands we had that use a hole and pin. We just drilled two new holes at the correct height to fit his truck. Then we put the two adjustable stands at the opposite end to take up the slack. It removes a little weight from the lift and makes eveything really stable. We never tested it to failure and I hope we never do.....but its better than nothing.

Research before you buy and be safe.

 

[c39er]

Buy a quality lift.... don't buy a Diy'er cheap $ Chinese lift.
maybe then you will feel safe under a lift.
That video has been around a number of years mainly to steer customers to their Chinese lifts.

 

[ekimneirbo]

Buy a quality lift.... don't buy a Diy'er cheap $ Chinese lift.
maybe then you will feel safe under a lift.
That video has been around a number of years mainly to steer customers to their Chinese lifts.

I have a 10,000 lb American made Rotary lift. When I bought it, they offered to sell me an "identical" model that was made overseas. Don't remember where, and that was a few years back. The overseas one was offered to me for several hundred dollars less. Point here is that everyone needs to check where their lift is made........no matter what American name is on it.
My son bought a house from a couple going thru a divorce. It's a very nice place and had an existing workshop. They left a two post lift in the shop when they moved out. There is no name of any kind on the lift. So, we bought jack stands and he used it to lift his Megacab diesel truck. It worked fine without the stands. Before he got the new house, he used to use my Rotary lift. We put stands under it too.
It never hurts to use stands and it makes everything much much more stable. I used to race motorcycles. I made 3 trips to hospitals. I'm used to risks. Standing under 7,000 lbs and wiggling things to get them loose seems like an unnecessary risk these days.

 

[mjn76]

it is showing as a private video, is it still available?

 

[Buckgnarly]

Wait, do you lower the truck onto the stands, so it's not on the locks or do you have the adjustable screw kind? And you are lifting a megacab diesel with an unknown lift?!?!

One of the first things I did was junk the stupid pin only tall jack stands that were in the shop I teach at. Kids were tempted to lower a vehicle onto them. We did get 4 adjustable screw types and I make them use one or two when lifting long trucks but ONLY to take the wobble out, NEVER to take weight off the lift itself. We always screw the tall srand to it.

 

[Imatk]

Can't see the video.

I have a Bendpak but they're made in China.
Love to be able to get something like a rotary, but the dimensions were too large for my space so I had to go with what fit.
Also more than double what my lift cost... probably worth it but out of my budget.

 

[ToddG]

Don't blame China for cheaply made products. They will build to whatever specs you want. The company specifies the materials used and what thickness and they produce them. The companies contracting to China are to blame for the cheap products.

 

[Garcky]

Can't see the video.

I have a Bendpak but they're made in China.
Love to be able to get something like a rotary, but the dimensions were too large for my space so I had to go with what fit.
Also more than double what my lift cost... probably worth it but out of my budget.

It's a 4-year-old post. That video probably was taken off public view long ago.

 

[finn]

So where was the submarine made?

 

[firebirdparts]

To be honest, the video didn't really tell you anything you don't already know. You can break a lift, any lift. You just have to do it right, and they did. They broke one (not theirs) and then said "oh be afraid and give us your money" It was pretty gratuitous to anybody who knows anything about mechanical strength.

 

[Poolshark314]

I don't really understand the point of these new accounts that just resurrect old threads for no reason, It seems like an odd type of spam

 

[Garcky]

I don't really understand the point of these new accounts that just resurrect old threads for no reason, It seems like an odd type of spam

Usually, it comes when someone searches the site and then clicks on the old post title. Often, that person doesn't check the date, and replies. Then the post rises to the top and others click into it. It's not some deliberate spam thing. Just inattention, really. Not that big a deal.

 

[mjn76]

I don't really understand the point of these new accounts that just resurrect old threads for no reason, It seems like an odd type of spam

I was the one who brought this post back up, I was genuinely looking for the video as it came up on a specific search keyword I entered. I was aware of the original posting date and didn't feel that a 4 year old post was very old for a media post. I am new to this forum but have been a member on many other forums for many years. media posts specifically get messed up for a variety of reasons, site updates being a very common cause. I'm sorry if you feel that I was spamming the board, I was legitimately looking for assistance.

 

[Monza Harry]

@mjn76 welcome aboard! I personally [and I'm not anybody special to this site] welcome these resurrection for reasons you listed, honest search of knowledge. That is what we are all supposed to be here for to gather or share. Yes old threads are less photo populated than when they were built, and there isn't anything we collectively can do . Perhaps a description of what you wanted to see could yield that one from another source or a similar video for our collective viewing pleasure. Harry

 

[Shadowdog500]

I’m on another forum that wont let you reply to an old thread without checking a box indicating that you know the thread is old. I wonder if that is an option that can be turned on here.

 

[Ray Bell]

That's better than a forum which essentially locks threads after a month or two...

The forum I use mostly, the one which introduced me to forums in fact, regularly has threads over twenty years old resurrected. For a while they didn't allow it, but now we see it happen from time to time and new information is added to that which was of interest a couple of decades ago and it's good.