Lift suggestions

[Vettelover]

Buying a new condo. Site is surveyed but NO construction has begun. Want to install a lift in one side of the garage to store a C-5 and work on a restoration or do service on family vehicles. Need to choose a suitable lift before slab is pored so mounting hardware can be poured in slab floor.
All suggestions/comments/experiences/problem comments welcome. Thanks in advacne for your help.
Vettelover7

 

[JohnZ]

With a typical 4-post lift (you indicated storage and occasional service was your primary consideration), you don't need any "mountings" in the floor; they just sit on the pads on the bottom of their columns, and if you go for the optional caster kit, you can move them around any time you like.

2-post lifts are a different matter, and require a specially-reinforced floor, especially if they're the asymmetrical type, which generate a major cantilevered load at their mounting points. They're great for major chassis or suspension work (and body lifts/drops), but they're lousy for storage.

I have a Cytech Double-Park 4-post lift ( www.doublepark.net ), and I love it; top quality engineering and manufacturing, and it's the only 7000# lift that's tested to 21,000#. Whatever 4-post you buy, get the optional aluminum ramps instead of the standard steel ramps - the steel ones are a PITA to horse around and store.

 

[Robin7TFour]

JOHN, please adopt me and take me home with you. i want to live in your garage>


robin