4 Post Lift Installation Recommendations

GTXDAN said:

Like that winch idea. One thing, is your lift bolted down or do you have to tie it to the building to use the winch. Mine isn't bolted down so I would have to tie the lift to the building. Maybe I just need to mount the winch to the building.

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My 4-post is just sitting on the floor with a similar winch. It pulls cars up without moving at all, and that's up a small incline.

As long as the car is a roller, then the lift won't move if it's not anchored. I wouldn't recommend trying to drag a non rolling car up on the lift.

dadsbee said:

Wife and I did my 9000 xlong x xwide. That and our backhoe..
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How tall is your roof?

Gary Gaz said:

How tall is your roof?

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10' 3"

Did mine myself, it is a BendPak if it matters. I think most assemble about the same. Had it loaded onto a open car trailer and then when I got to the garage unpacked it piece by piece to get it off the trailer.
The photo above with the furnature dolleys is a good idea. We had used some Harbor Freight car wheel skates that were in the garage which makes moving the runways around pretty easy. We had an engine hoist, not even sure we needed it, but also used some saw horses to get under the runways to run the cables.
4-post is not anchored, and was pretty easy to assemble. Lubes the sheves and cables and adjusted the cables to level. After having the car on the lift the cables stretched a bit and had to re-level with the cable adkustments

6PKRTSE said:

I installed magnetic LED light strips on to my lift also. Don't ever need a drop light.

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I did the same, it's amazing how well it lights up everything. I felt the LED's were too bright directly in my eyes, kind of like getting oncoming high beams at night. So I got some of this white plastic angle molding from Lowes and laid it down next to the LED strips. It works like a mini-diffuser and doesn't diminish how much they illuminate.