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I'm contemplating on adding casters to each lift to allow ease of movement around the garage floor and for positioning underneath the cars and SUVs prior to use. Each lift weighs in at about 75 lbs.The smallest heavy-duty casters I've been able to find at my local big box hardware stores are 2" in diameter. I believe the lifts, at full lowered position, are at 3" height. To current owners of the QuickJack, have you done a caster mod and how has the additional height affected your use of the lifts when positioning under your vehicles? Can you share what you've done in how you've modded yours? Thanks.
I think it could be a bad idea. The design is for the weight to be supported along its full length.
I've seen a couple of YouTube video where the casters are attached to braces that lift off the ground when raising the lifts. So, the carters only touch the ground and get used when the lifts are in the down position. I'm hesitant on drilling mounting holes for the casters for fear that it would change the weight lifting integrity of the support bars in question.
I have not even contemplated this, I really don't have any problems manuvering them on my concrete floor. My car is low enough to give me only about a 1/16" with the "always in place" pucks I have installed. If I use regular pucks then I'd have to jack the car up a little for it to fit which would defeat the purpose of them for me. So making it higher wouldn't work on mine. I'm in for other replies though to see what others have done.
In another thread a few months back, a guy had bought some thin high density nylon material, maybe an eighth of an inch tick and applied it along the bottom runners. Made them easier to slide on his concrete compared to direct metal contact.
From a thread back in December ‘19
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After several times monkeying around with my floor jack I realized I was too old for this ****. Sore and tired just getting my car off the ground. I like the idea of putting some carpet or something under the jack/floor contact points to make it easier to slide into position. I've also got some of those stay in pucks on the way. I bought some of this
During the course of my searches earlier, I saw these low profile roller ball casters in 2 sizes from Harbor Freight. The 5/8" sell for 1.09 each. The 1" for $1.99 each. I'll have to visit my local Harbor Freight and look at these in person. These lower profile caster may make it easier to strategically mount them onto the support areas that lift off the ground when the lifts are raised. I'll just have to carefully think where and how to attach them.
I use small 3-wheel dollies on either end of each jack to make it easy to slide in and out, but they are removed and set aside for lifting. These raised the jacks just enough when they are collapsed that the car didn't quite clear them when pulling in and out. So I put in a ramp system to increase the clearance. My car is not lowered - too many speedbumps through my neighborhood and the entrance to my driveway is okay at regular height but would be problematic if lowered.
When I want to use the jacks, I pull the center sections of the ramps out and set aside, roll the jacks out, pull the dollies out from each end and set aside, and I am ready for lifting. The ramps are just decking boards (5/4 inches, IIRC). They stay in place with stainless steel bolts through the boards and that fit into holes hammer drilled into the floor. This way I can remove the front and rear sections of the ramp system once the car is in the air if they are in the way of whatever work I am doing.
I've had this set up for a couple of years and it works well - makes it much easier to slide them in and out when I need them. My concrete garage floor is just rough enough that they were difficult to slide easily before setting up this system.
These are the dollies - available at Lowe's:
The location of the dollies under the front of the Quick Jacks are shown by the arrows below:
The dollies on the rear end - the bar along the rear edge nests nicely on the dollies:
I also built a cart for the Quick Jack motor/pump and accessories:
Last edited by K9Leader; Jul 21, 2020 at 09:52 PM.
I've given up on the idea of adding casters to the QuickJacks themselves. Instead, I've assembled 4 each of 12"x18" wood dollies. I used a 2"x4" to interconnect each set of 2 dollies, on the 12" sides, to create a span of about 55" for each set. The casters are 2" in diameter. Each lift will have its own dolly. I used nylon rope on each end of the dollies so they can be pulled in either direction. They're going to be stored on the dollies as well, until needed.
That's a great idea on creating a cart to carry the pump, hoses, and pads.
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