Pre-Drilling & Shimming

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What happens here

Once the lift posts are aligned according to the measurements from the installation manual (134 and 5/8 inches between posts), wooden shims are placed underneath the base plates to roughly level them. This helps in achieving an accurate mark for the anchor bolts, preventing issues where the metal shims might get caught if the post is not level. The presenter explains that this preliminary shimming makes it easier to slide in the permanent metal shims later. The lift requires specific concrete thickness and anchor bolt depth (at least 3.25 inches, aiming for 3.5 inches here).

Goal: Before drilling the final anchor bolt holes, temporary wood shims are used to level the posts, which aids in accurately marking the drill points and ensures proper final leveling.

Tools and materials

Installation Manual
Tape Measure
Wooden Shims

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string line here and a string line here and we measured it all off so we have a perfect straight edge to go off of now we went over in this block you can see the cut lines in this block of concrete we want to be at least six inches off that cut line we actually went three feet off of that cut line and about two and a half feet off of that the thickness of the concrete here is about six inches it's fiber reinforced it's really strong right here is our lime for where the edge of our post is going to go so we're going to go right here and right here just so you guys know so you can see chalk line here chalk line there and that's the center Mark okay this is approximately 18 inches wide we already have the other one in position I'll show you that got a little hydraulic fluid on the ground but it's in position right there and that's how we're going to do this we're going to mount it up once we get them all into the appropriate position we have to put

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