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Help Needed Assembling Bradbury 4 Post Car Lift
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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 290413" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>Thanks KME</p><p></p><p>I'll describe the problem so you can ask them when you see them.</p><p></p><p>The driven leg is basically a tube with a section removed. i.e if you look at it's section it's a big "C" shape.</p><p></p><p>In the middle of the leg is the tall hydraulic ram. Two flat "straps" hang down from the top of this to lift that corner of the car deck (the other 3 legs lift the platform via wire ropes)</p><p></p><p>When they got the dismantled hoist, the "straps" were unbolted from that corner of the car deck.</p><p></p><p>Now they have bolted them to the deck, but with the straps outside the leg. Now the heads of the bolts won't fit through the gap to pop it back inside the leg.</p><p></p><p>So you need to assemble it inside the leg? but of course then there's no access to get the bolts in.</p><p></p><p>To my mind, the only way this is possible is to further dismantle the leg, so you are left with just the hydraulic ram. Hang the deck from it's straps, and then lower the leg down over the ram. But that's a lot of weight to lift quite high to do that.</p><p></p><p>they have spoken to the guys that dismantled it, and they said they just "wiggled" the leg until the two bolts popped through, springing the gap open in the process, but it seems near impossible to do that in reverse.</p><p></p><p>The only other suggestion was to get the grinder out and enlarge the gap in part of the leg, but that's firmly into bodge it territory (though I can't see what harm it would actually do)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 290413, member: 6969"] Thanks KME I'll describe the problem so you can ask them when you see them. The driven leg is basically a tube with a section removed. i.e if you look at it's section it's a big "C" shape. In the middle of the leg is the tall hydraulic ram. Two flat "straps" hang down from the top of this to lift that corner of the car deck (the other 3 legs lift the platform via wire ropes) When they got the dismantled hoist, the "straps" were unbolted from that corner of the car deck. Now they have bolted them to the deck, but with the straps outside the leg. Now the heads of the bolts won't fit through the gap to pop it back inside the leg. So you need to assemble it inside the leg? but of course then there's no access to get the bolts in. To my mind, the only way this is possible is to further dismantle the leg, so you are left with just the hydraulic ram. Hang the deck from it's straps, and then lower the leg down over the ram. But that's a lot of weight to lift quite high to do that. they have spoken to the guys that dismantled it, and they said they just "wiggled" the leg until the two bolts popped through, springing the gap open in the process, but it seems near impossible to do that in reverse. The only other suggestion was to get the grinder out and enlarge the gap in part of the leg, but that's firmly into bodge it territory (though I can't see what harm it would actually do) [/QUOTE]
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