Car Lift for Home Use

[JJ91284]

Anyone have experience with a Home Lift? My brother's looking at different 2 post lifts as well as 4 post lifts. The lift would probably only need a 6,000 lbs limit, but of course a bigger safety margin is always nice.

Any thoughts on

http://www.costco.com/Dannmar-MaxJax™-2-post-Portable-Auto-Lift.product.11731656.html

MaxJax Portable Two-Post Lifting System by Dannmar

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[Mook]

[MENTION=410]Bruce Jibboo[/MENTION]

 

[Zack]

I have this, works great for storing cars, and the occasional trans fluid change.

Atlas® Garage Pro 8000 Portable Hobbyist 8,000 Lbs. Capacity 4 Post Lift

 

[Yaj Yak]

i'd go two post, my dad's garage has a four post, and while it is cool for storage, being able to do wheels/tires/brakes/suspension and stuff like that would be neat with a two post.

 

[DEEZUZ]

I have this, works great for storing cars, and the occasional trans fluid change.

Atlas® Garage Pro 8000 Portable Hobbyist 8,000 Lbs. Capacity 4 Post Lift

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[JJ91284]

Keep the posts coming....thanks guys

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I have this, works great for storing cars, and the occasional trans fluid change.

Atlas® Garage Pro 8000 Portable Hobbyist 8,000 Lbs. Capacity 4 Post Lift

I have this but the EXT model so it gets the bottom of the lift 7' in the air. Great for when used for storage so 6' people don't have to duck. I also got a set of hydraulic lifts so you can get access to all the wheels while on the lift.

Bendpak seems to be a better lift but the same setup was $3k more and not sure if it got the bottom 7' in the air.

2 post doesn't take up much room but if you ever want to use the lift for storage I would go 4 post w/ the hydraulic jacks.

 

[Yaj Yak]

is there any downfall to storing on a two post? suspension being uncompressed always? errr...

my friends grandpa has three two posts he stores on... i don't think of many negatives really, other than it's more annoying to get it in the air than a four post.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I'm sure the 2 post locks just like the 4 post but I have a false sense of security the car will capsize

 

[Yaj Yak]

that'd be a bad day.

 

[SleeperLS]

I really want one as well. But KJ pretty much posted up the dilemma I keep running in to. I would use it for working on my car rather than storage. BUT, I don't have room for anything right now so I can't talk...maybe storage capability is worth it.

i'd go two post, my dad's garage has a four post, and while it is cool for storage, being able to do wheels/tires/brakes/suspension and stuff like that would be neat with a two post.

Can you still do tire/suspension stuff on a four post? Are there just special Jack adapters or something?

 

[bimmer4life]

Anyone have experience with a Home Lift? My brother's looking at different 2 post lifts as well as 4 post lifts. The lift would probably only need a 6,000 lbs limit, but of course a bigger safety margin is always nice.

Any thoughts on

http://www.costco.com/Dannmar-MaxJax™-2-post-Portable-Auto-Lift.product.11731656.html

MaxJax Portable Two-Post Lifting System by Dannmar

How high is his garage ceiling. Hopefully its at least 10-11 feet. Im stuck with 9' so I have been looking at the MaxJax.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

agreed, clearly you will want to take ceiling high measurements into account

 

[Yaj Yak]

I really want one as well. But KJ pretty much posted up the dilemma I keep running in to. I would use it for working on my car rather than storage. BUT, I don't have room for anything right now so I can't talk...maybe storage capability is worth it.



Can you still do tire/suspension stuff on a four post? Are there just special Jack adapters or something?

there probably is, but you're always going to have that flat plane where the car drives on in your way

 

[EmersonHart13]

Just another alternative:

BL-5000 QuickJack- Portable Car Lift- Racetrack jack- Ranger

Only 5k though.

 

[SleeperLS]

there probably is, but you're always going to have that flat plane where the car drives on in your way

Legit point

 

[JeffsLightning]

I have this and it works great. Did not have to anchor to the floor.
http://www.gregsmithequipment.com/Atlas-408SL-8-000-LB-Four-Post-Lift_2

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

I did not anchor mine to the floor either, for light residential use its not required per everything I've read.

mine came with the caster set as well which is cool but no plans on moving mine.

 

[Zack]

My 4 post measures 110" wide.
The most narrow 2 post I could find at the time was 130ish IIRC.

That width will render a normal 2.5 car garage useless

 

[Yaj Yak]

huge point there as well.

 

[LikeABauce302]

I have an Atlas 9kbp in my garage. It's a 2.5 wide garage, so we offset the lift to the wider side of the garage so we can still park a car next to it on the other side. The posts are 9 feet high. We modified the ceiling to allow a car to be raised to full height. In this picture, the ceiling is still unfinished.

 

[bimmer4life]

I have an Atlas 9kbp in my garage. It's a 2.5 wide garage, so we offset the lift to the wider side of the garage so we can still park a car next to it on the other side. The posts are 9 feet high. We modified the ceiling to allow a car to be raised to full height. In this picture, the ceiling is still unfinished.

Who did the ceiling modifications? Did you hire someone or tackle the project. Just curious as I was looking into doing the same thing.

 

[LikeABauce302]

My dad and I did the ceiling modification. We added some additional bracing higher up to tie the two sides of the roof together.

 

[ITL Cobra]

I have this, works great for storing cars, and the occasional trans fluid change.

Atlas® Garage Pro 8000 Portable Hobbyist 8,000 Lbs. Capacity 4 Post Lift

Thats the one I have.... I got the jack for the middle for changing tires and brakes...

 

[FESTER665]

My dad and I did the ceiling modification. We added some additional bracing higher up to tie the two sides of the roof together.

Do you have any pictures from that? I'm thinking of doing the same thing as well but guess it wouldn't hurt to have a structural engineer take a look at it...