RE: 2 post lifts

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I'd like to thank everyone that replied to my question on lifts. There 
was a lot of good info sent.
Jeff
bill parker wrote:
> 
> I bought my 2 post 2 years ago from "Team Lift", in Ft. Worth, TX.  
> However, 
> I would have to say, looking at the picture in the listing you gave, it 
> is 
> the same thing.  (I did go for a 9000 lb model though, wanted plenty of 
> margin for the Imperial and the Rams).  Also, I ordered the 
> regular-ceiling 
> model, and they accidently sent me the low ceiling model like you are 
> looking at.  They then sent the different parts to make it the regular 
> model 
> and didn't want to pay the freight to get the low-ceiling parts back, so 
> I 
> still have them too.
> 
> I chose a 2 post because a transmission shop employee-friend told me 
> that 
> his shop had both, and the 2 post was much easier to use for many jobs, 
> and 
> when changing transmissions, even though he'd been doing it every day 
> for 15 
> years, he still had trouble banging his funny bones on the edges of the 
> ramps working on the transmissions.
> 
> The 2 primary negatives I found on this cheaper lift are (1) you have to 
> go 
> to both posts to unlock the safety locks, while more expensive lifts let 
> you 
> stand at one position to unlock both sides (2) I didn't bother with the 
> "assymetrical" arms, nor the "3 piece arms", just got the standard 
> 2-piece 
> arms; I wish I had gotten 3 piece arms for the extra dough.  When 
> putting a 
> shorter car like my wife's Neon on the lift, the arms are not short 
> enough 
> for all four sets to swing underneath the car at once, so I have to 
> swing 
> either front or rear arms under, then move the car a few inches, then 
> swing 
> the other set under, and reposition the car, kind of a pain on shorter 
> cars. 
>   One of these days I may get with the company and spring for one pair of 
> the 3 piece arms to make that easier.
> 
> The price for the 9000 pound model was $1699 plus shipping from Ft. 
> Worth, 
> too bad I didn't pick up on the existance of the company you found, as I 
> am 
> about 45 miles from Franklin.  They delivered to a buddy's body shop, 
> and he 
> and three body men helped me load the parts onto my trailer.  Then, 
> another 
> friend who needed the transmission changed in his '91 Tracer helped me 
> install the lift.  I bought a hammer drill and two 3/4" bits (nice 
> excuse to 
> buy a new toy!), five gallons of the proper fluid, a roll of #10-2 wire, 
> 
> etc, and the company had already supplied the anchors and anchor studs 
> along 
> with all other bolts and nuts.  It took us about 5 hours to install the 
> lift 
> from unloading the parts (using my cherry picker for the columns) to 
> driving 
> a car onto it and test lifting it.  Then he got his transmission changed 
> out 
> the next day, in one afternoon!  Wow that was nice.  (I'd already bought 
> a 
> cheap lift-style trans jack off eBay in anticipation).
> 
> Since then I've bought a pair of OTC underlift jack stands and one OTC 
> "foot 
> pedal" underlift jackstand, which is nice for positioning axles to 
> install 
> shocks and stuff like that, and an underlift oil drain outfit, it just 
> gets 
> easier and easier.
> 
> 
> Bill & Kathi Parker, South Central Indiana
> '56 Chrysler Windsor; '60 Chrysler Saratoga; '62 Plymouth Max Wedge; '64 
> 
> Dart convertible; '65 Barracuda \6; '65 Imperial; '68 Barracuda FB 
> 340-S; 
> '69 Barracuda FB now 360; '70 Challenger; '72 Cuda '340
> 
> 



Jeff Adams
64 Polara

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