Help w/ new HF Shop Crane/Engine Hoist

Yep, the rubber "ditty" (I call them hole plugs). Use a nozzled bottle, and squirt it into the hole.

('tis messy when you overfill, too! Make sure the ram's DOWN on the last fillup)

LLoyd

Lloyd,

Thank you very much. One more Q:

What kind of hydraulic oil? Or is there only one? Brake fluid mebbe?? Thanks.

"Proctologically Violated©®" wrote: What kind of hydraulic oil? Or is there only one? Brake fluid mebbe?? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NOT brake fluid. There is oil labelled as hydraulic jack oil. In a pinch I used chain-bar oil, or something else, and never could tell the difference.

Leo Lichtman wrote in article ...

difference.

Chain saw bar & chain oil does not have the rust and oxidation inhibitors that jack oil and the various hydraulic oils contain.

For those who are not aware, on a typical self contained hydraulic jack, the outer round tube is *not* the outside of the hydraulic cylinder, it is a fluid tank that is coaxial to the cylinder. This is not true for units where the pump is separate from the cylinder and connected by a hose.

Pete C.

"Lloyd E. Sp>

Which reminds me...anyone in So. Cal know of a jack rebuilding house in the Pomona/Santa Ana areas?

I was given a FAV (italian) "bench top" 20 ton hydraulic press, that has blown seals in the ram. I just need some seals.

Oh..and the Viet that took it apart lost the valve stem for the pump..and the gizmo that the internal retract spring attaches too. But those should be managable to make up.

Gunner

It's better to be a red person in a blue state than a blue person in a red state. As a red person, if your blue neighbors turn into a mob at least you have a gun to protect yourself. As a blue person, your only hope is to appease the red mob with herbal tea and marinated tofu.

(Phil Garding)

I have always been sucessful at getting any parts from most any hydraulics repairer. My youngin lost the valve and check assembly from a 10 ton bottle jack made by Blackhawk that wa probably 25+ years old, and they had one in stock that fit it and worked fine.

Same for all the cups and seals etc >===>===

Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!

HF well, is HF. I came within a hair of buying one of them myself, but decided to kick it around a bit more..ON the way home I stopped by Advance Auto to pick up some oil filters, and they had a nice hoist in there for $20 bucks more that had a max capacity of 8,000 pounds and a lot longer reach. It was also a fold up space saver type, so that to me was a plus as well...quality between the Advance Auto hoist and the HF hoist is like night and day, even though both are made in China. Put some color in your cheeks...garden naked!

If you guys want an upgrade on your engine hoist, go check these out:

GWE

Or try this one:

A penguin was having transmission trouble so he took the car to the local transmission bandits. They said it would take an hour or so to diagnose the problem and, since it was a hot day, why didn't he walk down the street to the ice cream stand and get a cone.

So the penguin waddles down the street and buys a vanilla cone and waddles back licking his cone.

When he got back to the shop the tech looked at him and reported "it looks like you blew a seal:.

The penguin glances down at his front where ice cream had dripped and replies "Oh no, that's just ice cream"!

Ho Ho Ho

Errol Groff

Gentleman,

Just watch out for the long rams kinking and the lift collapsing when you need it most. My brother has a KILLER homebuilt engine lift that uses a 20 ton short ram jack instead of a long ram jack. Hoist uses 1/4" thick 4x4 steel tubing for all parts of the lift.

Two friends have already had the HF /import lifts destroy the ram and drop the load. One was a 10cyl Ford motor (no trans) and the other was a big block chevy with a Turbo 400 behind it (all one lift.) In both instances the stuff being lifted didn't pinch anybody or anything of worth inbetween. These were straight lifts on concrete floors not poorly supported lifts.

Just my caution for the day.

Bart D. Hull snipped-for-privacy@inficad.com Tempe, Arizona

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Gunner

It's better to be a red person in a blue state than a blue person in a red state. As a red person, if your blue neighbors turn into a mob at least you have a gun to protect yourself. As a blue person, your only hope is to appease the red mob with herbal tea and marinated tofu.

(Phil Garding)

I was using mine (in the "1000 lbs" position) to pull up on some small palm tree stumps to uproot them. I must have overloaded it because the inside and outside tubes of the telescoping lifting arm are both bent slightly now, and I can't stow it all the way in. So it would appear that the hydraulic ram does not bypass before bending the tool structure itself.

Not sure how I can straighten it, either. Bother.

I thought about that with the inside one, but not the outer.

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:58:02 -0600, the inscrutable Richard J Kinch spake:

Palms have a single taproot. Dig around the base and push sideways to crack and remove them. Then fill in the hole.

Remove it, flip it over, weld on another bracket, reinstall, and have at that stump again. Once you have it straight, do NOT attempt to pull that stump any more. ;)

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