Routing & Tensioning Cables

like a globe well that went easy huh so we've got this all mounted up guys it's just Loosely mounted for now there's an adapter right here this adapter screws into this block then it goes down via this hydraulic line right here to this banjo connector right there and then all of our Hydraulics will be hooked up we are using the recommended hydraulic fluid for this machine whatever you decide to get it says it in the instruction manual exactly what hydraulic fluid and it takes 12 quarts and we'll fill this Critter up supervisor showed up guys we really gotta crack down so now we got us a lift all right we are on officially day three of this install my buddy Josh had to leave he hopped on a plane yesterday back to Illinois and I've got a few things to button up on this Critter so I'm gonna go through everything that we've already shown you just so you know if you're installing one of these there are no good videos out here on the internet for a budget two post lift in your shop and the next lift we'll be doing will be a four post lift you can expect that in a probably month or so something like that once we get power here in the shop so let's take you through real quick exactly what we've done so far and then we'll button up all the rest of it so if you'll remember we had to Route our cables through here so the first thing we did we started with is getting everything centered so we got the two posts or pillars centered where they needed to be and our measurements needed to be correct your instruction manual will have all that information we have the arms in place right here but not fully installed I'm going to show you a little bit more about that we don't have all the bolts in here because it took six batteries on the Milwaukee hammer drill to accomplish this task now we had to go in and we had to tighten these cables these cables need to have right around a half of an inch of play in them and that's about what they have they have a lock nut and this lock nut is not in place this is the last lock nut that has to go in here I wanted to show you we snugged it down right here and that cable runs down through this Channel and right up here into here okay so down through the channel back up and back down I do believe we've already got the lock nuts in place for this one and again this cable has to have about a half inch we want to double check these after a couple of weeks and after a couple uses to make sure that they stay nice and