Lifting Bendpak RJ45 rolling bridge jack

[aruba]

Hi All,

I just picked up my Bendpak rolling bridge jack from the freight carrier. It weights in at roughly 300lbs. If I don't have an enging lift to place the jack onto my lift ramps, does anyone know of any other way? It might be a struggle for my wife and I to lift that much.

I was thinking of placing it on my motorcycle hydraulic jack and somehow positioning it below my lift and somehow maneouver it to the top-side.

Thanks.

 

[Ray916MN]

Motorcycle or even floor jack should work fine. Just get it on the jack in such a way that you can rotate it 90 degrees on the jack.

Raise your lift high enough to roll the jack with the bridge jack on it under the lift into the space between the runways and lower the lift to the floor. Jack up the bridge high enough for you to rotate the bridge jack 90 degrees on the motorcycle or floor jack and lower it into position.

 

[nehog]

something to lever it up, some 2x10s (or 12s) to put under it? Work up one side at a time a couple of inches slide in one piece of 2x10 then go to the other side (end) and do the same. Just make sure it is stable!

 

[James E]

I picked mine up at the freight depot with my F-100. When I got it home I backed the truck as close to the lowered lift as I could, put a piece of old carpet down on the floor and slid the ******** the pallet and just walked it on end over to the lift and set it down. Manouvered it into place by myself.

Two should be able to do that, although one man and one woman would have some difficulty actually carrying it any distance.

If I'd been thinking, I would have raised the lift to the height of my tailgate and just slid the thing right into place.

 

[gygeneral]

What I plan on doing is lifting it out of my truck with a chain host I have in another garage and lowering in on a moving dolly. Then raise my hoist so I can wheel the dolly with the jack on it in between the runways. Then lower the hoist down to the ground and rotate the dolloy 90 degrees. Line up the jack and raise my hoist and the jack at the same time.

 

[mhm993]

^^ with some variation, that's what I did.

 

[darkk]

floor jack Just get it on the jack in such a way that you can rotate it 90 degrees on the jack.

Raise your lift high enough to roll the jack with the bridge jack on it under the lift into the space between the runways and lower the lift to the floor. Jack up the bridge high enough for you to rotate the bridge jack 90 degrees on the motorcycle or floor jack and lower it into position.

X2.......

 

[e-tek]

I lifted mine - with one hand.


Don't be such a girlie-man!!

 

[Steves32]

A little common sense.

Place rolling jack on a furniture dolly.
Raise lift enough to roll the jack under the lift.
Turn jack sideways so wheels are at front & back of lift.
Lower lift.
Turn jack to correct position.
Raise lift & pick up ******** the dolly.
Easy as pie.
Use your head instead of your back.

 

[Cryptic1911]

How about working smart, and using your "lift" to lift it. Get them to drop it in your truck, back under your lift, and unpack the jack. Use some ratchet straps to hook it to the ramps on your lift, and lift it out of the bed of the truck, drive the truck out, and set the jack down on a $9.99 hf furniture dolly (with some wood blocks on it) sideways, and then let the lift all the way down. Once the jack clears, spin it so the wheels line up, and raise the lift back up.

You won't have to lift a thing

 

[ezzzzzzz]

I saw a really nice modification done by BendPak on a RJ-45 over at www.ferrarichat.com website. Working with Jeff at Bendpak, the outer roller blocks were welded almost flush with the top of the support bracket which set the arms nearly 2" lower. This provides ground clearance of 2.5" instead of 4.5". Many folks wouldn't care either way. I know my 280Z track car sits low enough that the stock RJ-45 would never allow me to drive over it without laying some staged boards to raise the car up on the rails. It's my understanding that all Bendpak products are direct shipped from the factory so a custom order would be easy(?).

 

[Cryptic1911]

We had that done on ours too.. They made us lower arms so it sits on the ground when the lift is down, and also got the top flat rail replaced with one that has rails on the outside edges so that we can slide stands on it to lift a car right from the top plate instead of the retractable arms if we want

 

[HIRISC]

^^

Link to lowered RJ-45 lift thread:
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=311379&highlight=bendpak

I have an email into Jeff. Will report back. I need something < 4" off the ramps for my cars.

 

[ezzzzzzz]

We had that done on ours too.. They made us lower arms so it sits on the ground when the lift is down, and also got the top flat rail replaced with one that has rails on the outside edges so that we can slide stands on it to lift a car right from the top plate instead of the retractable arms if we want

I can't envision the rail mods. Can you post a picture or two?

 

[Cryptic1911]

Here's ours.. sorry for the ****** picture, but you can see how low the carriage assembly sits. the wheel blocks used to sit like 1.5" below the top edge of the flange on the carriage, now it's pretty much even.

and here's what the top rail looks like.. If you look back at the pic above, you can see the silver standoffs with the lift pads holding up the truck on the front suspension, instead of the slide out arms

 

[Cryptic1911]

 

[Cryptic1911]

Here's a shot from bendpak's site that shows where the wheel blocks usually sit, and you can see above it is like 1.5" of the flat flange. When you have them make the modded carriage, they move those blocks up higher on the flange, so the whole assembly sits lower

 

[ket-tek]

A little common sense.

Place rolling jack on a furniture dolly.
Raise lift enough to roll the jack under the lift.
Turn jack sideways so wheels are at front & back of lift.
Lower lift.
Turn jack to correct position.
Raise lift & pick up ******** the dolly.
Easy as pie.
Use your head instead of your back.

^^^ That's exactly how I've been doing it. On the initial install and the few times I've taken the jacks on/off.

No lifting, set it down on a dolly and roll it around and in or out of position.

 

[ixlr8]

My last email with Jeff, about 2 weeks ago, he said that all of the RJ45's are now the lowered version.

 

[Steves32]

Not only is my RJ45 lowered- Jeff customed narrowed mine so it can pick up my roadster front end.
Mine doesn't have those sliding rail pads like pictured above. That came about later after mine was already modified.
I'm happy.