Dusty
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- May 13, 2000
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The front stop is at the extreme edge of the runway. The ramps drop down as you raise the vehicle, and the rear tires stop them from fully dropping and allowing the stops to move into place. The tire tread flattens out for a few inches, and that is enough to cause the problem. I have been looking at extending the front of the runways by a foot, but don't feel comfortable with this alternative. I fear that if the home made extension were to fail with the car on the lift and me under it, I would be squished like a pancake. Having 4 tons over your head comes down quickly. I will call them, but I have resigned myself to the fact that they probably won't do anything for me. If they were stocked locally, that would be different. Since they are only sales agents and the units are shipped from California, I don't think that they will do any thing for me. The first unit that I got from them was a customer return that they had on "clearance". It was missing a lot of parts and was sold to me as being the wide unit, but wasn't. I had a hard time getting them to take that unit back and ordering me this unit. It also cost me some additional money. The difference between the "clearance" price and the actual selling price of a new unit. The pictures below should give you a better idea of the problem. One of my greatest fears is that if I should lift one end of the vehicle with a jack, that the other end might just roll a slight amount, and I will be in real trouble as a result. I want to live long enough to collect all the money in Social Security that I have paid in, so if it means that I have to "eat" 5 or 6 hundred to be safe, I rather do that then leave this earth prematurely.
I have also considered buying 2 new runways and 4 new cables to change this one to the longer version, but I have a feeling that the cost will be prohibitive when you figure in the 3000 miles of shipping that I will have to pay for. My guess is that it costs almost as much to ship 2 runways as it would cost to ship a complete lift.
Dusty
I have also considered buying 2 new runways and 4 new cables to change this one to the longer version, but I have a feeling that the cost will be prohibitive when you figure in the 3000 miles of shipping that I will have to pay for. My guess is that it costs almost as much to ship 2 runways as it would cost to ship a complete lift.
Dusty