Rotary SPOA10?

[naturalgas]

I've been searching for the right lift for my newly built garage and have settled on the rotary spoa10 for a few reasons. First I thought I planned my build out thoroughly but in hindsight I should have made my ceiling at least 12'6" instead of 12'. Here is what I have. A 36x40x12 garage. Because of excavation mistake of a couple inches the GC adjusted my walls so as to have a 12' finished ceiling. So what I ended up with is a 12'1/2" finished. I thought would be fine. Add to that 4 rows of 4, 8' led light fixtures about 3 1/2 deep leaves me with a safe number of 11'8" ceiling height. I was pretty well settled on a bend pack 4 post since the beginning and all would have been good. But now that the garage is up and I'm using it I don't want a 4 post to take up all the room it would.So my question for guys who have this rotary lift is will I be ok with lifting C6 corvette to a F350 CC diesel. According to specs I will need 11' 81/2" for spoa10 which is just about where I am without removing a couple light fixtures.


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[lakeroadster]

You should be ok. The lift will fit the space no issues, I have an SPOA10.

The only issue I can see is you will need to be careful when lifting short wheel base tall bodied vehicles that they don't hit the ceiling, but it would have to be a unique vehicle for that to happen. One where the roof wasn't under the overhead lift bar. On wife's Jeep Wrangler 2 door, the radio antenna hits the overhead cross beam, but at full lift the roof is still below the overhead cross beam. If it had a rack or Thule cargo unit, then that might be an issue in your case.

For long wheel base vehicles the roof will be under the overhead lift bar, so no problems.

Make sense?

At 7800 lbs is the F350 CC diesel to heavy for the lift? I know the lift has a 10,000 lb rating but you might want to call Rotary and ask them for their advice. Diesels are so nose heavy, they may suggest locating the front wheel on the spotting dish instead of past it.... would be interesting to hear their counsel. Three stage arms would be better, and the SPOA10 has 2 stage.

 

[naturalgas]

I hear what you say about F350. Local installer/ sales, said It will lift it no problem. I'm looking for verification from a user.


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[naturalgas]

Any suggestions on best location of lift? Looking at this pic I'm going back and forth between right where pickup is or angled in right corner where orange tractor is.


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[lakeroadster]

Any suggestions on best location of lift? Looking at this pic I'm going back and forth between right where pickup is or angled in right corner where orange tractor is...[/IMG]

I'd think angled in the corner, or slightly angled where your truck sits now.

Here's what I did at my previous shop. I used duct tape on the floor to layout where the columns would be,. Then made note of how that would impact my normal activities.

Would you be lifting the truck with the snow blade on it? Of course (says Captain Obvious) take that into consideration.

 

[ltusler]

Also watch out, the black rams extend above the blue columns when fully up.

 

[WhiffySpark]

The 10k rotary will lift the diesel but a 12k will make your life easier. But you may have to jack the c6 up to get the arms under. We have to do that on a 10k sometimes

 

[walrus]

I have an spo10, symmetric lift. I lift an extra cab, 8 ft reading tool bodied 2013 gmc on it. Not a diesel it's a 6.0 liter

 

[zkdiesel]

It will not lift your crew cab ford short or long bed nicely. Will do it, but will be sketchy.
Had one, took it down and sold it

 

[zkdiesel]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=265430

 

[nehog]

My SPO-10 lifts my Hummer H1s easily.

 

[bob_the_builder]

It was a tight fit but I installed my SPOA10 in my home garage with a ceiling height of 10' 5". I notched the ceiling around the cross bar. I thought it was a better option then getting a lift with a floor plate.

Bob