Harbor Freight Air/Hydraulic conversion first test
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Harbor Freight Air/Hydraulic conversion first test
In the spirit of Christmas, I thought I would drop in and leave a little gift.
I havent been on here in a while. But over the years have gotten a lot of help on this forum.
Recently I purchased a cheap Harbor Freight table lift and set out to convert it to air over hydraulic.
but I could not find a real good source of a complete conversion.
So I stated planning, buying parts and chopping, drilling, sawing away at it.
I finished it this morning and here is a short video of the first test.
I'll get another video up later showing what I did, how I did it and a parts list for those who have been wanting to do the same.
I havent been on here in a while. But over the years have gotten a lot of help on this forum.
Recently I purchased a cheap Harbor Freight table lift and set out to convert it to air over hydraulic.
but I could not find a real good source of a complete conversion.
So I stated planning, buying parts and chopping, drilling, sawing away at it.
I finished it this morning and here is a short video of the first test.
I'll get another video up later showing what I did, how I did it and a parts list for those who have been wanting to do the same.
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Even though I use the wheel chock to hold the bike in place while I dismount I'm too fearful of what could happen so I always put straps on the bike as well before lifting it.
Nice job on the air over hyd though!
Nice job on the air over hyd though!
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Nice job on the lift. Be real careful riding that thing up though...If you happen to lose your balance at all, you are going to drop your bike at the least and get hurt real bad at worst. You might want to consider building some side ramps.
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+1 on the side ramps and for testing the lift, I'd use about 10 80# bags of Quickcrete in place of the actual bike!
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I have a platform I am going to build for that entire corner. The lift will sit flush with it when finished.
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That is the harbor freight knock off of the Condor chock.
I have actually fallen off the bike with this chock bolted to a trailer (triped on dismount).
Im 290lbs and was hanging off the side of the bike. Its damn near impossible to pull the bike out of tje chock from the side.
now the chock or wheel vise that came with the lift? Yeah straps are the only way and its a bitch to strap it and dismount by your self.