Wow - what a difference with my new 4-poster
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Racer
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Wow - what a difference with my new 4-poster
Ok - it's finally DONE!!!!!!
I ordered a BendPak 4-poster a few weeks ago - and yesterday I finally got to use the finished product.
What an effort
I wouldn't say the instructions were great - but they're better than the ones you get from a Bilstein or H&R suspension kit
The biggest issue was the sheer weight of everything - the ramps themselves are about 350lbs. - and it took four guys to prop each up onto the lift bars - we all came away with bruised shoulders.
The other very interesting bit was - I had no idea that these lifts require a compressed air feed to release the safety locks.
There were also no instructions on installing the optional hydraulic jack - which works great - until I realized that the warning notes on the jack again referred to compressed air.
In the end, I already had a compressor, but what I did was to run air lines throughout the garage, and now I have hanging air hoses in 3 locations in the garage.
So, this is the first big step in my garage reno - which is going to be dedicated to my auto fetishes
Here are some pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/enrico.p...ndPakRocksDude
Let me know if you can't see them.
I ordered a BendPak 4-poster a few weeks ago - and yesterday I finally got to use the finished product.
What an effort
I wouldn't say the instructions were great - but they're better than the ones you get from a Bilstein or H&R suspension kit
The biggest issue was the sheer weight of everything - the ramps themselves are about 350lbs. - and it took four guys to prop each up onto the lift bars - we all came away with bruised shoulders.
The other very interesting bit was - I had no idea that these lifts require a compressed air feed to release the safety locks.
There were also no instructions on installing the optional hydraulic jack - which works great - until I realized that the warning notes on the jack again referred to compressed air.
In the end, I already had a compressor, but what I did was to run air lines throughout the garage, and now I have hanging air hoses in 3 locations in the garage.
So, this is the first big step in my garage reno - which is going to be dedicated to my auto fetishes
Here are some pics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/enrico.p...ndPakRocksDude
Let me know if you can't see them.
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looks great Enrico! Is there enough space to park another vehicle underneath for storage purposes, or does BendPak offer another set up for parking purposes? Curious about the garage door/ceiling req's too!
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing.
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I'm curious about the clearance as well.. how close does your car get to that big and heavy wooden beam you got up there? I'll bet there isn't much clearance!!
I hadn't seen the pictures of when you unpacked it.. that must of been much more work than I gave you credit for! LOL
BTW.. that's a gorgeous turbo you got in the background!
wooden beam you got up there? I'll bet there isn't much clearance!!I hadn't seen the pictures of when you unpacked it.. that must of been much more work than I gave you credit for! LOL
BTW.. that's a gorgeous turbo you got in the background!
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Did you order it directly from Bend Pak in the US? Or do they have a Canadian distributor? And if the former, how much hassle was the border stuff? I've had aggro in the past with couriers and charges and other assorted nonsense...
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Racer
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BTW.. that's a gorgeous turbo you got in the background!
And thanks for helping me take down the wood beam!
can you remove wheels when it's on the lift?? if so how is that done?? What's the cost diference between your lift and say a mid rise??
Oh yeah, before I forget, I haven't installed them yet, but this baby comes with casters - that's right, I can move it around if I want to put it in the middle of the garage - pretty nifty
Did you already modify the garage doors to track higher or was that how they were originally installed.
I had a local company do the work, the original doors were wood and we had mushrooms (not the smoking kind) growing out of them - so we replaced the doors with insulated ones while we were at it.
Is there enough space to park another vehicle underneath for storage purposes
How high is your ceiling?
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Did you order it directly from Bend Pak in the US
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Oh yeah, one more thing - garage door openers. You can see from the top of the car that if I had an opener - it would be quite a problem. I removed my original Sears openers, and I'm having the company who installed the doors put in jack-shaft door openers which work on the spring in the garage doors.
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Looks good! It will be interesting to compare this to a two post lift...I just ordered a 9000lb two post lift from Greg Smith Equipment and hopefully will be installing it by Christmas....can't wait!