An E92 and the Atlas Kwik Bay 7000 Mid-Rise Lift

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I have decided to selfishly take personal satisfaction this morning at making somebody with a 335 jealous of somebody with a 328, lol.

I didn't put rationalization in my first post. Rotors, pads, sensors, etc... for a four wheel brake job costs about $500 if you shop around a bit. Same for my wife's X5. The dealer charged ~$800 to do the front brakes and rotors only. The rears are due and all mine are due. So I figure I'll save about $1500 right there.

(Don't tell my wife you don't need a lift to do brakes and rotors, 'k?)

Thanks for the comments, DSX.

Good catch on the flared connections. I hadn't noticed that. At both ends of the hose though (into the control unit and into the manifold block), the connections are not the flared type. In fact, it was the Teflon wrapped, factory connection that leaked like mad when I first tried to raise the lift.



Thanks for worrying about the electrical as well. A good shock now and then does me good... thins out the blood. But I did have the ground connected. Here's a different shot showing the green/yellow connected properly to the plug. BTW, I would have been slowed down more by the electrical had I not learned about this potential snafu in a related thread on another forum. (http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=69263 This whole forum thing is amazingly helpful. How did we get by in the last millennium?)



I'll check for stray currents as well. I do have GFCIs on all my barn outlet circuits as well.

6-3-2012

1. The end of the tube is not threaded. But I learned long ago that you can screw a non-threaded material into a threaded hole and the threads will bite in and grip anyway as long as the unthreaded material is softer than the threaded. It's not as reliable, but it often works and has held up in this case. Another option would have been to actually cut threads in the exterior of the male part, but I didn't bother. I'm sure there's a better way to hook up the air, btw, but I haven't bothered to seek it out as my Rube Goldberg fix is working.

2. With the help of a very good friend and the unexpected assistance of his teenaged grandson, we were able to load the lift onto his pickup truck and drive it to my place. I built a crane of sorts into my barn so, once there, he was able to back the truck into the barn and we then rigged it up and lifted it up. He drove out and we lowered the lift to the floor. Voila! There's plenty of good information on the website, though, if picking it up is not an option. They can arrange shipping for you. I don't know what it costs, but I expect you'd be looking at a couple of hundred bucks. Be sure to think it through too, because getting the lift off the delivery vehicle can be problematic.