Good to see people wearing their safety flip flops when installing this heavy equipment. Better safe than sorry.

ive had this lift for almost 2.5 years now and it is single-handedly one of the best things i've ever bought for my garage. Also side note for everyone with this lift, get a heavy duty grease or a paste type white lithium (not the spray type) and apply it in each of the lift posts on the inside channels. The instructions are honestly super unclear and after a while, the lift becomes very shakey and rough without lubing those inner points up. It is not like a traditional lift and I would recommend doing it at least once a year where you wipe down as much of the old grease and apply new grease. Also, make sure to always put on the locks and check the hydraulics every now and then to make sure they aren't leaking.

Brian you do such nice work . I worked in a shop that had symmetrical lifts we got in the habit of pulling up to the lift and rolling the windows down and putting the car in neutral and pushing it between the posts .

Bought my MaxJax almost 4 years ago. Love it. Don't worry about not raising up perfectly level. Mine never has. I did set the anchors in two positions. Highly recommend anchoring adhesive. I am surprised that you didn't hit any rebar. I used 1/2" rebar 16" on center when building. Made sense before having to drill for the anchors. 🤯

I've had this jack for 5 years now, purchased because of low ceiling. No problems what so ever, mounted pump and tank on the lift post with metal tabs I fabricated and attached , looks cleaner, highly recommend!

I have the old Danmar MaxJax. Except for keeping the lifting equal it’s been great. I lift my 2012 Silverado crew cab. Another option for not unbolting the driver side post, take the arms off and hang on the wall. The arms get in the way more than the post.

I have the previous version of the MaxJack and love it. Don't really miss the higher lift possible with the higher lifts. Purchased a low rolling chair to perform work under the car. Used the MaxJack when I changed the transmission on my Mercedes 500SL and when I was restoring my '80 Corvette. I also was able to install a side mount garage door opener and highly recommend one if you have the capability. It also picks up my Chevy Tahoe and '86 Mercedes 300SDL with ease

I think calling this thing portable is a bit of a stretch😂😂😂

Once you go lift you never go back. Have had mine 4 years now and cant go without it. You see things with a lift you never knew existed. I'm into vintage Caddy's and Lincoln's. So I got a 10,000 lb one

Its great when your boys all pitch in to make the dream work! Awesome job!

Very slick! Great video man. I'm envious of both the two-car garage AND the lift. Couple observations: You can't do this as it appears your garage doors are butted right against the side walls, but for those with the extra width, wall-mounted door openers are a great option to get more overhead lifting space. Also, ideally it's good to know where your car's center of gravity is to adjust the front and rear lifters so that your weight distribution is 50/50. Might also be a good idea to get height extended jack stands for each end, just to be extra safe.

Yes have had my MaxJax for about 10 years love it

I killed a couple of cheap hammer drills before I broke down and rented and real rotary hammer and did it in minutes. As you know, the right drill made it a lot easier. The garage looks fantastic. Having a lift at home for doing body work is something I wish I'd done ages ago. Saves the knees and back a lot of pain. On single garage doors like that you can move the opener over to the side and the door will still function normal. Congrats on the new lift

Been having mine since 2020 the best investment I’ve made for my home garage! No problems at all so far! 🤞

Appreciate the detail to this video, not sure I would put one in my garage after seeing this but I'm glad to see their is a solution out there.

A lot of trust in those bolts screwed into the floor with that amount of leverage.

This is looking awesome Brian and friends. Great install, and practical 👍 😊

Nice lift. Game changer for body work, detailing, brakes- the list goes on. Garage looking sweet man. Feel free to showcase your rides- Ive seen that old TL in a few videos...

Thanks for sharing the install. Might want to buy a garage door low headroom conversion kit to give you some more height, along with convert the door to manual lift to get rid of the automatic door lift.

Very cool for a home garage. Make sure to double check everything always and lock doors when not in use.

If you're thinking of building a shed it's best to know the total height of car+lift as this will determine which shed kit you need.

Very smart working with heavy steel wearing sandals 😂

Good idea to wear safety glasses when pulling nails or cutting steel binding bands. A man at work cut a steel band. It sprung back and took his eye out. Also wear them when using power tools.

That would be a dream for me. Perfect for your new shop. Great video. Thank you.

another great video like always Brian your content never disappoints me 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

They are great , had mine for 10 years now

Man I would have lifted that last car to its max capability! I have full trust in bendpak! Been using them for years! Best in the business

Nice man!! I have the same set-up at my Home Garage🤗 I love this lift

😂😂😂😂 It awesome to see all the guys cracking the boxes ope like in a Christmas day! Very gun video to watch! 🥳🎉

That garage is huge! Maybe 3x the size of mine. Small garage 🤣😂🤣😂

There is nothing more stylish than wearing flip flops while installing heavy equipment……👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Nice clean install Brian. I prefer a full size lift myself, but I have the space. This looks like a good deal for someone with a standard height garage or minimal space.

On the 10:41 mark, the Acura looks like it has non OEM hardware on the floor board. Thank so much for this ! Looking to get a lift for my tight 20x20 metal structure garage and this would be great cause it’s movable 👍👍

There is a joke in that intro... How many painters does it take to open a MaxJax crate? Too many! That thing is packed like it's a nuclear warhead. Good to see they take their shipping protection serious. Congrats on the lift. Once you start using it you will become a prima donna never wanting to lie on the garage floor again. It only took me 2 days to become one and now I complain if I have to get on the floor. It is not pretty. A couple of points based on my experience with my Bendpak. The round pads get damaged quickly with the pinch weld lift points. I made some pinch weld standoffs matching a spare tire jack. If you want any info let me know. They work well. For the down position arm free movement, you can double sided tape spacers under where the pins touch so they all release when fully down so you do not need to lift the release pin. It looks like you have some attic space to change the garage door tracks to angle up and reposition the opener to get more height. I know that is a lot of work cutting out a section of the ceiling for the door/tracks, but it will allow you to utilize the full lifting height capacity.

I've worked with anchors in concrete for over 55 years. The wedge anchors included by the equipment manufacturer are only as good as the concrete their being set into. Most residential garage floors are at best is 3,000 psi concrete, most likely less and 4" thick, maybe and just maybe they added re-enforcing wire. The concrete is the weak link in the whole system. Anchors should be spread out no closer than 6" a part, which the manufacturer did. I'm sure in the instructions they had a disclaimer regarding the concrete integrity to cover themselves. Before you buy this product check the depth of your floor and how hard it is to drill. The safest thing to do is cut a 4ft by 4ft opening under each post and place 4ft deep steel re-enforced deadman dowelled into the existing concrete. Remember, concrete is very strong in compression but very weak in tension "pull". This lift system puts the concrete in tension.

I purchased the 7K and had to put in another 2k to make it work and be safe. Did 24 inch square base plates 5/8 . Then replaced the movable parts of the arms to extend them to actually work.

so many body men in shops work and mud and sand bent over or on there knees all day long ,this will make life a lot better.

Great setup Brian, best of luck to you.

How thick should the concrete be on the garage floor? Did you know how thick yours was before you installed the lift?

For side mount direct drive garage openers, you can get a short chain link for those and mount it on the ceiling on the side. Liftmaster part #480lm.

It's always a good idea to wear flip flops and open toed shoes when installing heavy pieces of steel🤪

Hopefully you invest in Pinchweld Adapters for this lift. Once that Pinchweld' is damaged, no going back.

A comment or two.... the rear bolts in the floor are in tension not compression. There are no front bolts as the base plate is compressed against the floor underneath hence developing the moment resistance coupling to resist the moment for the load on the lift arms. Therefore the strength of the lift posts for rotating towards the car depends greatly on the tensile bolts strength but more so on the tensile strength of the concrete. Does not matter how big are the anchor bolts, the concrete tensile resistance governs the ultimate strength. The anchor in the concrete engages an imaginary cone in the concrete when subjected to pull forces and resist the pullout by shear friction in the concrete. The thicker the concrete the higher the shear resistance. The cone developed under the pull forces (tension) must not be interrupted by a crack in concrete nor by the concrete edge. Your anchors for the post against the wall may be too close to the edge and therefore may not develop the full pullout force resistance, from the video they appear to bee about 3" away or so. If your garage slab was poured after the walls were built, floating floor, you may have to check the edge distance. If the floor was poured over the foundation walls prior to the walls above being constructed you may be OK. MaxJax manual should have a minimum edge distance specified. (also check a video of a guy with a failed anchors) I have the same lift but older model with a safety bar that you push through the holes in the posts to act as a safety. I also installed levels (for leveling the fence posts) which I can check to see if the posts are plumb in both directions front to back and left to right when I lift the load, every time. There will be some movement on the posts (bubble in the level moves but stay within the plumb area) due to the load acting on the arms and creating the moment (torque) on the arms that are transferred to the posts. The posts must be installed vertically with no load. Due to the garage floor slope you may need to shim the posts bases to bring them to a vertical position. Good luck.

In my situation, since my wife also has a garage door remote, if you lower the g-door for more clearance, I would recommend pulling the door opener safety release to prevent sweet heart remote button pushin accidents. LOL .. Nice video :-)

If i had a garage this would work great.

In the case of a garage installation in a "home" where the concrete is generally less than 4" thick, I'd worry. I measured 2.5 inches in some spots when I cut the floor and elsewhere it was always less than 4" thick. If you are pouring a new floor, make sure it is at least 6" thick or better still, 8". The MaxJax Manual calls for 4" and 4.25" minimum (which is it MaxJax?) and tells you to drill 5.5" deep into concrete. The Wej-It anchor manual calls for a 5 inch deep hole for the PD-58 anchor. I skipped all of that and did my own installation that is now going on over 10 years...and I am still here. LOL

Awesome video 👍! Love the well organized garage. Definitely planning to have a lift set up like that for my garage as well. I have one question? What do you need to do to get that floor color & look? It looks really nice!

Very cool, sir. It was nice of your embroidery club to come and help you set it all up, and you didn't even give them props.

that is a very cool hoist this would work perfect in my garage...i really like that it runs on 120 volts....

Safety wise I would never have put the controls in such a tight spot. If this lift where to fail or the vehicle becomes unbalanced one could be pinned between the vehicle and the wall. This would likely prove to be fatal. Since you were running longer hose to one side anyway, I would have put the pump and controls on the rear wall where you could more easily escape if a car starts to fall. This would also give you more equal hose lengths. I have two four post lifts and the controls are at a corner where one can easily escape in case of failure. It is much more rare for a car to fall of a four post lift, but I have seen dozens of videos of cars falling off of two post lifts. If you watch those videos you would not ever think of being so trapped when lifting a vehicle.

Great job! I would max it out with garage door up and mark the position somewhere on the arms and standups. I know my luck I would lift to max height with door down and would at some point raise the garage door and drag the door arm across the roof. You have done an outstanding job on you new work space. keep the videos coming.

Flip-flops while working with heavy steel parts is pure genius.

Great video! I would love to get one of those installed in my DIY garage and appreciate the way you explained all aspects. Your shop is immaculate, I can easily follow a man’s suggestions when his shop and business are that clean and orderly 😎! I just need 2 things to get one of these 1. Money 2. Time 😂 Thanks again for informative video

Sweet little garage! I have the same floor and setup minus the lift

Are you planning on getting a wall mount garage door lift for more clearance. About four fifty to five hundred hundred bucks at menards for a Chamberlain eliminates that damn track and unit hanging down in the way

great solution, not everyone have such a big nice garage as you though.... great value for the price also....

Definitely the ultimate garage one that you would dream of nice motivation one day I'll be on that level can't wait to work in something like keep it coming man 👍

lovin the safety flip flops

Thanks for review.

Love the way you assembled heavy metal wearing slippers. It would be nice to see something heavy fall onto his toes!!! Safety first!!!

Love the floor! What product is that? It looks like a hard anti-slip rubber surface with nice easy clean texture.

Great demo. Only tip is make sure that the lock has not been released before going under any vehicle. When you demo’ed the creeper, I noticed the locks were unlocked. Just a safety FYI for you.

I put a jack shaft garage door opener with center torsion spring on my garage door gave me about 16 in more height.

Awesome video! Keep it up

Nice addition to the garage. Garage looks amazing. Just so you know, you can relocate the garage opener to the side or even raise it up higher to gain more height.

Very nice! Curious on the slab? Post tension?

Bunch of dads doing dad things on a Sunday with a nice cold one 🍻

Man I thought I just saw you slide under that with the locks off, crazy trust. I want one.👍

Nice! I'm jealous of that garage. I would like to get something like that but the major thing stopping me is that I have post-tensioned slab and drilling into the slab is risky of hitting a steel tendon in the concrete....Ka-BOOM!!

Nice u should try the wall mount garage door opener so you can get the most height out of your lift. They are very nice an they are not bad on the pocketbook. Hope u check one out.

I have a midget wife who can perform all my mechanical needs using this lift , great vid .

Nice one🔥

Like the floor covering.

You have some diamond balls. You show how to release the locks then proceed to roll under the car with the ergo chair. You can see them still unlocked in the video. And I feel nervous getting under my Mustang with 6 jack stands!

Hey I see that Eastwood scroll compressor in the garage. Do you like it? I was thinking of buying one.

That would be perfect for small frame off classic jobs

Brian, would you be intrastate in doing a front bumper on a 2016 Jeep Cherokee Summit on here in Florida

hey do i have to sand off the clear coat completely or sand it enoguh to let paint adhere to the old clear coat assuming its in good condition.?????

I have a bend pack mid rise scissor lift in my home garage and in my opinion it works better for doing body work on there is no posts to deal with and it's completely movable if you wanted but honestly it's not in the way so it stays where it is for the most part and there is no bolting and unbolting to move it way better lift for body work and lifts it just as high if not higher then the max jack

This is a pretty good setup. I've considered it for my garage too. That chair tho, man.. I would be taking a nap in 30 seconds! :) You've got a pretty great setup going!

THE FLIP FLOP CLUB AROUND HEAVY EQUIPMENT, NICE LIFT BUT FOR THOSE OF US WITH BACK ISSUES WE NEED A HIGHER CEILING AND FOR MORE PRACTICAL USES HAVE A MORE OPEN AREA AROUND THE LIFT !!! ENJOY ALL THE VIDEOS YOU POST VERY ,VERY INFORMATIVE !!!! THANK - U BRIAN !!!!

Nice to have, although I typically manage just fine with my jack stands.

wow that's so handy to have

Very nice. I’d worry about the amount of leverage on those bolts. I’d prefer a wider foot print and/or the pillar extending to the ceiling to be secured into ceiling beams. Both of those of course effect portability but safety first. Ignoring that, if you want more lift height, look at 1) high lift conversion on that end door and 2) jack shaft door opener. You can get another foot or more of overhead range. As long as you don’t open the door, you don’t need the high lift door but your torsion bar at present likely doesn’t have the space for a jackshaft opener on either side. You’ll probably be ok for opener space after doing a high lift conversion.

Love your channel! Great install! Looks neat. I would have mounted pump and controls 2-3 feet to the left away from the car just so not to be in harms way of being crushed against the wall in the odd event of car falling off the lift...just my two cents.

Can this be used for long-term storage, storage of one car on top of another car? Or for only quick repairs?

Very nice lift for the home garage. I think you could be able to adapt the garage door motor to the vertical wall between the two garage doors. I also think if you can do that then you could move the rails that the door rolls on up higher giving you more height. I did that to my door so it's closer to the ceiling. Good luck and keep the videos coming. Thank you.

Love the floor.

Could you tell little bit about the floor, is that epoxy coating on top of concrete, my garage is having natural stones small one on top of concrete, would that work ?

On the side that doesn’t go all the way down, just put some spacers under where those lock pins touch on the bottom and the spacers will push the pins up, allowing to to move the arms without being completely down. Some sticky wheel weights would do the trick. 😜

What You’ll Need to Check to Install Your MaxJax: Concrete Slab Thickness (4.25” or more) Concrete-MaxJax Indoor Installation Only Concrete-No More Than 3-degree Slope Concrete-Compressive Strength 3,000 psi or Greater MaxJax Lift Location Overhead Clearance, Approach Clearance, and Obstructions Concrete Condition (no significant cracks or defects, especially under lift pillars) Traditional Slab or Post-Tension Cable Slab type verified Note-MaxJax hold-down bolts/anchors require 90 ft-lb tightening torque

How thick is your garage floor? What is the recommended thickness? In my FL. County, this would require a permit and inspection. The previous owner of my house installed an RV carport in the backyard. This would be an excellent addition as I only have a small SUV.

Now if you change out your garage door opener to a shaft drive you can gain a lot more lift height.

Nice video. I am constantly looking for ways to lift my Mustang. What if the post were mounted further into the garage? I believe that would move the vehicle ahead of the garage opener a bit.

How is the rest of the house coming along? Did you get all the Polybutylene pipe replaced?

whats best lift for storing cars on second level. How high should I build garage ceiling (in blueprint)

I like those safety shoes

how low was the RSX (I think) without the ramps? Front air dam height? side skirt height? Price for Max Jack?

good video

Thank you for posting I’ve been needing to see this. Thank you do you have a referral discount link or code?