Lift install help

[toadjammer]

I am installing my used two post lift this weekend. In the process I realized the location I want to put it to optimize space has about 1" difference from one post to the other in height. This lift has lower chain driven equallizers. My feeling is that I am best off with mounting them down in the current locations and adjusting the height on the rams so that they are level at the lifting pads. I know this may affect the locks engaging at the same time, and will have to look and see if there is an adjustment for this. It is an older weaver lift if that helps at all and I don't have a manual for it.
Thanks
Toad

 

[krooser]

I have an old Weaver 9K lift.

I'd bolt it down and see how it operates.... at the very worst you may have to have a couple 1/2" steel plates fab'd to space the mounting surfaces so they are level.

Weaver's are good lifts... I've had mine 10(?) years and it's been trouble free... it was about 15 years old when I bought it.

Good luck...

 

[brownbagg]

what I did , was ground the concrete under one foot print to equal mine, I did not got an inch but more like a quarter

 

[toadjammer]

Ok more lift issues. As I said earlier the lift is used. And with that the chains that run from post to post have coroded. Today I took some of it off to get the correct sizing. In doing so I found out that the rollers are a different size than standard. The rollers measure .331 and the newer chain measures .463 with both of them having the same pitch, width and thickness of links. This lift doesn't use sprockets, but rather rollers that just roll the chain around to keep the rams the same length. Any help or sugestions would be great.
Thanks