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Installing & Adjusting Lift Arms

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What happens here

The extendable lift arms are installed onto the carriages of each post. The presenter demonstrates the locking mechanism for the arms, which uses a gear and pawl system. To move an arm, the pawl is lifted, allowing the arm to rotate. Once in position, the pawl re-engages the gear teeth, locking the arm. A set screw is used to fine-tune the engagement of the pawl with the gears, ensuring a secure lock. The arms feature different pads, including fixed and adjustable options, to accommodate various vehicle types, including tractors, Jeeps, ATVs, and UTVs. A spring-loaded pin mechanism allows the adjustable arms to extend outwards and lock into place.

Goal: The adjustable lift arms are installed onto the posts, and their locking mechanisms are checked and adjusted to ensure they securely hold the arms in position.

Tools and materials

  • Cotter Key
  • Lift Arms
  • Set Screw
  • Small Wrench

What they say

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to make sure that they stay nice and snug and tight so that cable runs through so both of these have even tension on them and that's something that's very important this is the locking mechanism right here that locks the gear into place basically if you want to keep your lift arm in position you can see right there it has just a slight amount of play if we need to move it we'll simply lift that up and rotate it around drop it back into place where it needs to be we've still got a little bit of tightening to do there's a set screw right here that will set down in to make sure that paw engages with those gears pretty cool pretty simple stuff it's locked in place pretty good right now let's see if we can back it up nope can't do it so we got one more of those to do and it just takes a little bit of finagling on this Critter and this is what it comes like so it looks just like that and you'll slide that down through and mount it all up appropriately so we'll set that guy to the side again this is from Northern Tool it is the tuxedo lift tuxedo brand lift we will not be able to use this crater today but I wanted to show you everything how it all goes together so there's a hydraulic cylinder right in here and a chain that rides in the back hydraulic cylinder is fed through under here also so there are two cables and a hydraulic cylinder in here to the second hydraulic cylinder which brings the lift up and down as you bring the lift up and down it has pause back here and this is the safety release latch okay so you pull that and it unlatches the safety release right now it's locked into position and it cannot go anywhere okay again you need to have at least I believe it said four and a half inches of concrete right here either rebar reinforced or reinforced with fiber concrete and that's what we have here on the Stoney Ridge is fiber concrete okay there are caps right on the top here those caps need to be bolted down those caps are partially bolted to the frame that this lift came on in the crate and if you do order this lift online you will have to have a tractor or forklift to get it off of the trailer we've got a couple bolts to Snug up on our pump right here this will be our power source it runs on 220 volt okay and this will take our hydraulic fluid right here and we got a minimum and a maximum level right there we will not fill it up with hydraulic fluid until we have power hooked up that'll be the last thing that we do but I want to show you guys how…

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