408sbc

I was wondering if anyone here has this lift? HF Item # 91315. Question: I read a comment from one reviewer (amongst many other reviews - almost all positive) that said the arms on this lift will not reach out wide enough for vehicles with wider jacking points like late model Corvettes. Could someone with this lift measure the widest width? Does anyone use this lift on a wider jack point vehicle like a Corvette? Thanks

jdmdohcpower

Don't waste your time. You cant even drop the exhaust with that due tot he bars in the center. I have the ranger quick jack 5000. My car is dropped as low as stock bolts will allow and I drive right over it. Love it.
http://www.quickjack.com/

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...able-lift.html

Oakmtnbody

Atlas Kwik Bay 7000lbs Greg Smith Lifts Georgia

Oakmtnbody

This made installing my Borla X pipe a breeze.

ktoonsez

Doesn't look like it gets the car off the ground very high, checked there website and couldn't see a measurement?

Busa Dave

The only thing that that lift is good for is working on the wheels, brakes, exhaust tips or license plate. Way too short to get under for serious work.

408sbc

LOVE! the Kwik Bay 7000 and that's on my short list. With shipping it would be +$1300 over the HF. I have had a call into Greg Smith in Iowa for 5 days and they forgot about me I guess. If I went with the Ranger Quickjack, I would skip the 5000 and go with the 7000 they are coming out with and taking orders for now, but the Ranger is very limited for lifting height. The HF would be about $1225 with shipping this weekend with the 25% coupon. I do have access to a buddy's 2 post Bendpak if I need access to the entire center section of the car.....so that sort of makes the HF design more tolerable.

Oakmtnbody

I think wheels, brakes, exhaust, and suspension covers what most people on here are doing.

Oakmtnbody

Well here's the same lift only higher, again Greg Smith Lifts.

408sbc

^ Another nice Atlas lift - that one would be recessed into my floor if I had the ceiling height to work with.

Anyway, can anyone answer my question in the first post in this thread?

Bill Dearborn

It looks very close to my old Eagle Mid Rise 6K lift. With that lift the arms were just long enough to reach the shipping slots (with jack pucks installed) if the car was placed properly over the lift. Here are a couple of pictures of my 03Z placed on the lift one from the rear and one from the front. You can see the arms out close to their maximum reach and where the jacking pucks are located on the pads.






I can't comment on the HF one other than it says the bars will reach a maximum width of 57.5 inches. The Eagle lift reaches 57 inches which worked for both my C5s and the C6Z. A couple of things you should be aware of:

1)The HF lift specs say it is a 220 volt lift while the Eagle lift is a 110 Volt unit.

2)The HF unit doesn't come with height adapters while the Eagle lift comes with two different height adapters which permit usage with a vehicle like a full size SUV or pickup truck.

3)The last thing the HF unit is $1k higher priced than the Eagle unit.

I used my Eagle lift for 10 years and sold it for $900 in 2013. I only paid $1299 for it so it held its value quite well.

All mid rise lifts like this pose potential problems for the concrete in your garage floor. These lifts only contact the ground at the cylinder in the front and the two small wheels in the rear. Because these are circular objects the width of the contact area on each of them is very small (maybe a 1/32 of an inch). That means it doesn't have a lot of square inches. It might not be as much as 1 sq in. The lift weight is 900 lbs and if you assume a Corvette weight of 3500 lbs that means you are placing 4400 lbs of pressure on a small area. Assuming a half square inch of area in contact with the ground that means you could be subjecting those points to hell of a lot of pressure (8800 psi). When I put the lift in my garage in NY State the concrete was 34 years old, had no expansion joints and had a couple of small hair line cracks in it. In other words it was good stuff and tougher than the stuff you get in modern houses. The area where the rear wheels tracked was slowly pulverizing over the years and when I moved away you could see the tracks in the concrete.

This picture shows the tracks on the concrete. The track leading to the left side lift wheel is obvious. This picture was taken about 3 years after I installed the lift.


One other comment about Eagle lifts. I got a good price on my Eagle mid rise because I called the company and talked to a salesman who offered me a discount off the web page price.

Bill

408sbc

Thanks Bill. Yeah, I definitely see your point on the contact area of the rollers. I would throw a couple of lengths of 6" wide 1/4" plate where they track. The HF lift would run about $1225 delivered this weekend with the 25% coupon - not bad. I'm still being drawn back to the Atlas Kwik Bay however.........

Oakmtnbody

I can't say enough about the Atlas sbc, I've had everything from Buick GN's, atv's, mowers to my Hummer H2 SUT on it and from building differentials to replacing rear main oil seals on the Buicks and it works great. The center is open and allows access to most everything, it's rock solid and the air actuated locks are pretty fool proof.

Oakmtnbody

Most car can park over it, could make ramps for the vette's

Bill Dearborn

I have looked at those lifts over the years and thought they would be a great way to get the car in the air without taking up a lot of room and still be able to work in the center of the car. However, when I purchased my Eagle Mid Rise Scissors lift in 2004 the lift you are showing ran about $7000 and I wasn't going to spend that much. When I moved to NC and built a new house I went with a MaxJax which is nice but I have to move one of the posts if I want the two car garage to still be a two car garage.

Bill

jdmdohcpower

True, you are on your back. With a creeper I have to stretch to reach the car so I never have it up all the way. There is a lot of room but you aren't standing. Again, I don't like those other lifts just because the first thing I did with mine with the x pipe and you cant with those because of the cross sections.
I don't really need to stand, I can get everything I need done on the creeper. I lifted my s2000 up enough to wheel the engine out from under it

Oakmtnbody

The Atlas goes up to 42 inches so after you add the aluminum pucks and the rubber blocks that come with it you are almost 4ft so a small stool like this is perfect.