Greetings,
So I continued setting up the 4 post. I will say that I was very pleased that the hydraulic cylinder had STEEL caps threaded in instead of the plastic ones my MaxJax had which were broken off. I had a couple stumbles which I blame on the terrible instructions but perhaps they are my fault. “Assemble as shown in the picture.” Picture is grainy and hard to make out details. In trying to put the safety lock release lever to match the picture I broke the threaded rod off inside the bearing piece. I broke an ez out and a tap trying to fix it so I had to find new bearings and threaded rod locally. After getting it all together I noticed it would *never* have worked the way the picture showed.
I also discovered that while the instructions insisted the hoist couldn’t be assembled within a couple feet of the wall I found that I needed it to be 15’ or so away!!!! Since I’m a cheapass I didn’t buy the arms/casters that let you roll the hoist around I had to come up with a way to get the posts up on furniture dollies. I settled with jamming 2*4s between the locks and the post so the lift carriage couldn’t go up without taking the posts with it then jacking up each corner of the carriage to get the posts on dollies. With that done it was fairly simple to roll it forward 20’ slap in the super long front to back safety release bar then push it back in the corner.
With those issues taken care of I was left with a pile of leftover parts while still missing the cable stops that the instructions say need to be around the pulleys. I threw a temporary wire off of the nearest electric panel and tested it. It ran for quite a long time before it started lifting but it eventually did. I raised it up so I could level the 4 corners. One of the corners required almost all of the threads to be exposed to get it level. I later found that it had slipped off its pulley which fortunately caused no damage and was fairly easy to correct.
With that done I raised it all of the way to find that it didn’t have enough fluid to rise to the top lock. I added some more ATF and that got it all the way up but when I brought it down to the ground the fluid I added came spilling out of the cap/vent.
Decided I’d climb up and measure clearance and see how wobbly it was. 5’ to the truss from the top setting and it dances around a fair amount. I wasn’t able to accurately calculate that since the ceiling is vaulted so the height varies.
Tried to put my truck up but it was too wide so settled for the wife’s car. (The rest of my cars stink so didn’t want them idling a bunch inside the shop haha)
Only thing left was to see if the truck fit underneath with the car on the 2nd highest lock. I must have measured it 10 times because my eyes kept telling me it was going to hit but sure enough fit with 1.5” to spare!
I contacted Dannmar today to address a few issues and thus far they have solved 1 of the 4. It seems the lift was redesigned and there is no mention of it ANYWHERE. I had to contract customer support and chat for 30 minutes before they sent me this (which explains the lack of cable guides and some of the extra bolts:
Still working out the other issues:
1.) Got fairly scratched in shipping. I’m not hoping for much beyond some color matched paint.
2.) Can’t raise lift all the way up.
3.) Extra bolts left over ???
It is going to be at least a couple weeks (if not over a month) until I can stand up the 2 post. You will see why once I get going on it!
-Hillrod
decisions, decisions............
Thanks! Just picked it up Saturday. I've wanted more or less that exact car since I was 16. Called my insurance agent: "Will this be replacing one of your existing cars?" "Absolutely not!" Haha. 
