So I finally start playing around with the autolift this weekend (mind you.. without the car on it!)...

The old owner of the house tells me that morning that the thing hasn't been put up in almost two years... but I figure.. what the hell.

I hook up the air compressor and flip the lever.. I hear air going in (none leaking out) and the lift doesn't budge. So I go into the shop to get some tools to start messing with it. When I come back out I see that it's come up about four inches. I look underneath and I can see that the main cylinder is super clean... the supporting smaller cylinder is rusty brown (grease and all).

So I decide to try and get the lift up as far as possible and get all the old grease and rust off of it... bring the lift back down after it's been regreased and see if that helps. To do this I have to use a breaker bar from the tire machine and a ladder for leverage and procede to slowly but surely get the lift all the way up.

After about an hour of work, I finally have it up as far as it will go and I then clean everything off, sand it down a bit, and then put clean grease down.

OK.. so time to put the lift down (in the back of my mind I hear "what if it doesn't come down now!?!). Flip the lever the other way and the lift starts to drop and, luckily, goes down all the way.

So now its down.. lets see if it will come back up now (figuring the new grease should have worked its way down). Flip the lever... nada...

dammit... so I force it back up a couple feet, and then let it back down...
repeat a couple more times.. nothing seems to help.

Fuck it... I'm done messing with it for the day.

Unhook the air compressor and go to put it back and just happen to look at the nipple on the lift. Stop.. look at it again...

Fuck... it's corroded just about closed.

Take a nail and work all the corrosion out.. reconnect the air compressor.. flip the lever... up goes the lift.

I calmly went into the house to see about getting my head removed from my ass...

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