Inground lift

marty79

marty79

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Newton, NC
My new shop has this, and it works now that I got air to it. Anything I need to service/ know/do to it for maintenance or anything. Thank you
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Been long time since I used one, what's the lift capability
 
orange150 said:
Go ahead and take the time to reseal it.. if you can. Every time I see one it's surrounded by kitty litter and is slowly leaking down.
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Yeah every shop I worked at with these we had thick steel tubing to keep it from slowly leaking down lol but at least this one has the safety lock on it.
So there's hydraulic fluid in it correct? How do you "add" or can you?
 
marty79 said:
Yeah every shop I worked at with these we had thick steel tubing to keep it from slowly leaking down lol but at least this one has the safety lock on it.
So there's hydraulic fluid in it correct? How do you "add" or can you?
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You have to go underground!
 
Somewhere on the floor away from the cylinder you will find a pipe cap or plug, make damn sure the system is vented of air before you loosen it. That’s the hydraulic tank fill. Stick the tank to figure out how deep it is and how much oil is in it,. Too little oil and air will cause the cylinder to jump up and you’ll loose the vehicle. Too much and it vents oil when you drain air to lower and makes a mess. When cap is in place and you apply air it pressurized the tank and pushes oil into base of cylinder. Good luck, those are notorious for suddenly swinging an arm and vehicles falling off. There are no locks
 
Blkvoodoo said:
Somewhere on the floor away from the cylinder you will find a pipe cap or plug, make damn sure the system is vented of air before you loosen it. That’s the hydraulic tank fill.
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Dont have one?!

Blkvoodoo said:
those are notorious for suddenly swinging an arm and vehicles falling off. There are no locks
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I've used them I've never felt sketchy but I've also never put big ass trucks or suburbans on them either lol
 
If it’s like any of the others I’ve seen, it changes it’s hydraulic oil by leaking into the ground and you constantly have to keep adding and adding. Most shops I’ve seen have switched to the 2 post lifts.

if you are buying the property, be sure the oil hasn’t leaked into the ground and groundwater because you will be buying the environmental issue along with it.
 
Blkvoodoo said:
Good luck, those are notorious for suddenly swinging an arm and vehicles falling off. There are no locks
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How is that possible if there is pressure on the arm? I must be missing something.
 
RatLabGuy said:
How is that possible if there is pressure on the arm? I must be missing something.
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Most of these types of failures are attributed to operator incompetence...
 
jeepinmatt said:
Most of these types of failures are attributed to operator incompetence...
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"Make things idiot proof and you breed a better idiot."
 
rockcity said:
be sure the oil hasn’t leaked into the ground and groundwater because you will be buying the environmental issue along with it.
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Lol well ground is already considered contaminated since old gas tanks are still buried under parking lot so kinda good for me lol, why house and shop has to be on city water not well anymore
 
Seems there was some Federal mandate, Years ago, to remove the old tanks, or maybe fill them with sand, concrete, something. You may be ok, as long as no contamination leaves the property. If it does, your SOL! If you bought it, tanks & all, I'm somewhat surprised! Didn't think the property could be sold with in Steel in ground tanks. Maybe a Disclosure covered the PO?
 
rodney eppes said:
Seems there was some Federal mandate, Years ago, to remove the old tanks, or maybe fill them with sand, concrete, something. You may be ok, as long as no contamination leaves the property. If it does, your SOL! If you bought it, tanks & all, I'm somewhat surprised! Didn't think the property could be sold with in Steel in ground tanks. Maybe a Disclosure covered the PO?
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It was all covered/ taken care of and approved by city before deal was made so all is good
 
marty79 said:
It was all covered/ taken care of and approved by city before deal was made so all is good
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so they are ok with the sale, but that in no way relieves the owner (previous or new) of any liability for groundwater contamination. The gov doesn’t care about your own well, they very much so care about wells on adjacent properties. This is where your risk lies and has been known to cost millions to owners for clean up.
 
rockcity said:
so they are ok with the sale, but that in no way relieves the owner (previous or new) of any liability for groundwater contamination. The gov doesn’t care about your own well, they very much so care about wells on adjacent properties. This is where your risk lies and has been known to cost millions to owners for clean up.
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All adjacent properties were already forced to switch to city water, as mentioned it's all been taken care of
 
marty79 said:
All adjacent properties were already forced to switch to city water, as mentioned it's all been taken care of
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it doesn’t matter if they get their water from the city or not. Groundwater contamination that spans beyond your property is what matters, drinking wells or not. That’s the issue.

companies that contaminate groundwater have been known to just purchase vast tracts of land to avoid cleaning up contamination. It happens. And it happend last year in NC for a very similar situation.

Do what you will and listen or not, a leaky cylinder for a floor lift and underground gas tanks can pose very costly remediation costs to a new owner.

to me it sounds like a sweetheart deal, for the current owner. Looks like he found a sucker buyer of his brownfield site and passes all clean up requirements to someone else and he walks away scott free with a few $ for an otherwise worthless brownfield property due to contamination.


is it likely this serious? Maybe not. But depending on age and how long it was leaking, it could pose serious financial risk for remediation.
 
rockcity said:
If it’s like any of the others I’ve seen, it changes it’s hydraulic oil by leaking into the ground and you constantly have to keep adding and adding. Most shops I’ve seen have switched to the 2 post lifts.

if you are buying the property, be sure the oil hasn’t leaked into the ground and groundwater because you will be buying the environmental issue along with it.
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This you can stuck with insane environmental cleanup cost with those things. Seen it happen.
 
Be careful around the cap in the ground that is on the tank. My neighbor almost got killed back in the 90's when one blew off and hit him. Put him in the hospital for months and to this day he has very little memory of anything before his accident.
 
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