ive used the snapon equivalent, and it makes stuff really easy. to get a car up on it tho might require 2x6's as ramps......

any one have any experience with these? cheap enuff, and should last forever at the rate i use it....


http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/disp...temnumber=46604

I found a thread on Pelican about this.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread....or+freight+lift

thanks for the link!

seeing if pops will go halves on it...

You're quite welcome!

HF....lifting my pride and joy....working under it....HF.....hmmmm, not MY idea of a good time.....

For double the price, I got a 4 post lift installed....

It's been on my wish-list for quite some time already
But there's always something else that I need more urgently

Agreed that it's not as good as a 2 post lift, but I don't have room for one of those in my garage anyway

HF?

Do you want trust your life to something a 10 year old in China built?

I bet that 10 year old put a lot of work into it, ya know?

b

Last year Car & Driver magazine had an article about die-cast model car production in China. Pretty interesting. It seems that a majority of these models now come from China.

Along with Harbour Freights tools.

they have a good rep over at pelican......

and they have lock features.....

Don't forget too that Harbor Freight is liable, so it's unlikely it's that much of a POS. They are a fairly sizeable company, and I suspect some form of certification/testing is required by them by their vendors for potentially dangerous equipment.

Andys

very cool
wish i hadn't just bought a car hauler, cause i'd be buying one of those

I guess one could always make 39" tall jackstands for a little bit more support

they already make extra tall stands.....

http://www.tooltopia.com/index.asp?PageAct...ROD&ProdID=9086

Hmmm... Those Astro Pneumantic stands have a minimum height of 56". I don't think the HF lift goes that high. (I presume there are other mid-height stands somewhere though.)

Skip

Starting height on the lift is 15-3/4" Isn't that taller than the bottom of most 914s?

Edit - Nevermind! It says the minimum height is 3-7/8". So then what does "starting lift height" mean?

not sure what that means...

but


and the pelican guys just drive up on 2x10's to sit their 911's on it

probably the first lift lock position.

sounds logical

colage ejakated

The HF runs off 220? I have been looking at this one fromGreg Smith Equipment I like the fact that it runs off 110V. Costs more the HF.

apparently the HF lift that is 300 more runs off 110...

and the guys on pelican say that this is 110 also....

Duh! It was 90+ degrees in my office when I wrote that and it was difficult to breath, much less think. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

I hope you're right. I love HF. I buy quite a bit of stuff there. But.... BUT... You gotta be careful!! MUCH of their stuff is absolute junk. Goes with the territory, being so cheap. But shopping at HF the closest I come to gambling.

I don't go to casinos, but I shop at HF. I'm careful... I think... is this item the kind of thing that needs to be reliable? Hmm...

You would think a jack is pretty fail safe. I think I might risk that one.

But my last trip there, I bought a laser level and a dremel tool. Put the batteries in the laser level and the laser was on. Switched the switch. Switched the switch. Switched the switch. DOH! Switch is not functional... have to pull the batteries to shut off the laser. Nice. Plug in the dremel tool, turn it on just to hear it run... woohoo, it runs..... then it slows down.... and can't even turn itself under no load. I just pulled it outta the box and plugged it in and it can't... W@L#RJLKF a!@$(&

Ok, I'm done rambling now. But my point is, there's an art to shopping at Harbor Freight.... If you average it out, I think you come out about even with shopping at a quality tool store. That being said, I'm looking forward to their next flyer......

It's been pretty vocal on my views on HF. Like I have said before, if it has moving parts, don't by it at HF. I bought a little sissor lift tranny jack a few years ago. I figured what can go wrong with a threaded rod with a socket end? (thats how it works) First time I use it (on a piece that way 1/2 the rated loaded) the thrust bearing takes a crap. I've since spent more time dicking with it to make it work than it is worth. The design of the thing is very poor and the materials are junk. The threaded rod is mot made of tool steel but of soft pitted turd rod. The clearances are so loose that it binds up under load.

HF does carry some name brand stuff (ChanelLock etc), but I've checked thier store prices on this stuff and it is no cheaper than HomeD/Lowes.

You got it right, you are gambling at HF.