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Installing Hydraulic Power Unit

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What happens here

The hydraulic motor and pump unit (weighing approximately 45-50 lbs) is mounted onto the bracket on the designated post. An adapter is screwed into the pump's block, and a hydraulic line is connected from the adapter, running through the base of the lift post to a banjo connector at the bottom. This connects the pump to the lift's internal hydraulic system. The presenter notes that the unit is not yet powered, as the shop electricity is not fully installed, but the electrical connection will require 220V. Hydraulic fluid will be added later once power is available.

Goal: The hydraulic motor and pump unit are mounted onto the designated lift post and connected via a hydraulic line.

Tools and materials

  • Adapter
  • Banjo Connector
  • Hydraulic Line
  • Hydraulic Motor and Pump Unit
  • Wrenches
  • Hydraulic Fluid

What they say

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the more concrete you have the better off you'll be and we need to be away from these relief joints so that we don't accidentally heave up our concrete pad we're pretty close to the drain over here which is kind of disappointing when I built this building I wanted the drains to line up perfectly with the doors and this one does not line up It lines up in the center of this 28-foot Bay so that's why we're doing a little bit of head scratching and we'll probably have to put a few extra shims right here because it's clearly just a little bit cattywampus this is a 220 wiring unit we will not be wiring this up because I simply don't have power up here to the shop building just yet so this is preliminary just setting it in place consult your electrician if you're going to go ahead and get it wired up into place and we'll run conduit down from the ceiling and feed this Critter right here now Josh why did we decide to go with wood shims right here instead of just shimming it up with the metal ones well it helps you get underneath it if you already have it set then you can just slide in your shim the metal shims otherwise it'll just you'll try to slide two or three at a time and that top one will always fall off and you'll be fishing it out from under there yep be wobbling a little bit it's already set you just slide them in if you're all your anchors already good to go tighten her up that is a money shot that's perfect 100 now we're ready to start drilling our holes and getting everything mounted up and we'll put our metal shims in place the drill that we're going to be using is a Milwaukee uh hammer drill this Critter right here awesome tool and again we're using a three-quarter not a 3 8 it's a three-quarter inch bit and we set this thing the depth finder on the bit all the way down to about three and a half to four inches so next thing we have to do guys is hang our hydraulic motor and pump this weighs about 45 maybe 50 pounds put those through right there drop them in the holes

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