Thread: High bumper lifts??.

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Nothing to do with anyone else buying a sweet new lift.This question is just timed wrong.The ad speaks of lifting the whole car/truck with extensions up to 48".I question how safe that would be.You thoughts on the matter???.

http://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/2272684698.html

Originally Posted by 1gary

Nothing to do with anyone else buying a sweet new lift.This question is just timed wrong.The ad speaks of lifting the whole car/truck with extensions up to 48".I question how safe that would be.You thoughts on the matter???.

http://rochester.craigslist.org/tls/2272684698.html

Gary,
I think they may be selling the old pneumatic bumper jacks that we used to see before energy absorbing bumpers and frame jacking points became the norm, something like this? I wouldn't get under anything supported by one of them, much less two of them lifting an entire car! Getting it in the air is OK, but then you'd need some tall stands with stable bases, IMO.

I have had one of these lifts for more years than I can remember. It has a safety locking devise that takes the weight off of the pneumatics. In my opinion it is every bit as safe as jack stands.

Originally Posted by Smiliesafari

I have had one of these lifts for more years than I can remember. It has a safety locking devise that takes the weight off of the pneumatics. In my opinion it is every bit as safe as jack stands.

The Rochester ad is for a pair of jacks. Would you feel comfortable working beneath a car/truck supported by one of those each side at full height? Not a big deal, just wondering.

Quick answer is, yes. I've never used it at full height. It was always too high to be comfortable. And I never used it on the side of the car. Always at the end. Jack at one end and jack stands at the other. A picture with the add would have been a help. I don't recall what the safe load rating is but I always felt OK with it.

The ad seems to suggest it being used as a car lift substitute.One thing that came to mind was you going back and forth raising each side to the next lock height.I would think that would be a high risk move.Then it at full height and the type of base it has,might not be the best move.I have used these in the past,but not to lift a car off the ground one on each side.There is one other ad for just one of them and is priced at $175.Maybe not a bad pc of equipment to have around.

I agree with you 100% Gary!
Anything that lifts by a lever type means always wants to push away from the saddle end,(the casters roll as you jack). So I would think when you are using one of these on each side it would push away from each other,great, as long as it doesn't catch up somewhere.
I had looked into a MaxJack, portable 2-post lift,hooked together by one line, so they lift at the same time. They don't look stable enough where they park on the floor.
Brian