How it works?!? The CAR WIZARD shows how to operate a two-post car lift. 

Solid content here. You may have just saved some one's life and there car. Keep up the good work love the videos and you demeanor. Honest hard working mechanic.

This was an uplifting video!💪

Boy I'm glad to have all my RU-vid channels! You all are making this crazy time much more enjoyable! Thank you!

Thank you for providing entertainment during these times!

"Very thick, it used to be a factory" Such a humble description when many would be bragging nonstop. Gotta respect this guy

Stay safe and healthy Wizard!

Thanks Wizard for helping to keep us safe and entertained.

You're a natural teacher. I like how you considered the questions that might come up, like the difference between a framed and unibody vehicle and addressed both. The caution about the cars with high-tech suspensions was a brilliant bonus. This video should be required viewing for every apprentice or home mechanic.

Thank you Wizard for listening to your subscribers! Keep doing what you are doing!

I followed the instructions and was extremely cautious. This is the most accurate description of how to operate safely. Thank you!

You are a great teacher, David. The lift company could use this in their training program, IMO.

Excellent video! Very clear directions on how to properly use a 2 post lift! Thanks👍🏻

I work for SEARS Automotive in 1987 early to mid 90s man has car change ! looking to go back into the field and need to Refresh thanks !! Cars have got easy in diagnostic point they give you a starting point with the right Tools

When I was in my mid 20's, I spent a month assisting a friend installing automotive lifts. It's a hell of a process.

I have that exact lift in my home shop. Love it to death. Saves this old man's life much easier.

Thanks for doing this. I'm looking at a house with a lift in the garage and I didn't want to admit to anyone that I didn't know how to use it.

I think these last two videos are some of the best you've done. I've had a Ranger (Bendpak) Quickjack for several years that I've asked them repeatedly how to lift a truck with it with the frame being unlevel. This is the first answer I've seen on the Internet! Thanks!!!

In the old days with a center lift we used to use a steel "stick" to reach under and move the arms around in or out or wherever, the end of the arms had a steel pad which you could flip up as I recall and I think there may have been round holes in the arms which you could hook with the steel bar to move them around. By using the bar it was easier to move the arms and set the car up. Those kinds of lifts had a "stopper" kind of a metal plate with a bump on either side so when the car was pulled in that usually set it up in the middle, for most cars. There was an alleged safety poll that was next to the hydraulic giant sized poll/pipe, however I never recall locking or unlocking that thing, I think it had a piece of metal at the base you were supposed to kick to lock an unlock. The lifts never failed but would get slow leaks, I think the fluid was all in steel pipes. It was all powered by a central compressor that provided power to the hydraulics in the lifts and for air tools and the bell that was attached to the yard hose which customers drove over and caused the bell to ring. We had a drive on lift too with flaps at the end that would rise to prevent roll off once you raised the vehicle. By the time I worked there the flaps would rise but never lock as they got rusted out, so you would have to block the wheels. We cleaned the bays with gasoline and water and push broom sized scrub brush and rinsed with water pushing it all out of the bay door with a big squeegee for difficult cleaning we used battery acid on it. The gas cut the grease and the acid cut anything. we always made sure to turn off the oil furnace so it would not kick on. That's how they did it for probably 30 years before I got there and all the way until they closed maybe 10 or so years later. We lived to tell the tale!

Just started working in a shop, very useful information! Just doubling down on what I’m being taught at the shop!

My knees hurt a bit watching the crawling parts, but in the long run, these are knee savers. it's good to be very through with these lifts. I worked in a shop where another mechanic actually had a car fall. Luckily no one was hurt, but the car was totaled. These are very powerful tools that require a lot of care to use. Thanks for spreading the proper use of these.

This video is exactly what I wanted. Super informative and straightforward without skipping over any pertinent details. Thank you so much and keep up the great work!

Elliott's channel is really awesome! He's so funny, most everyone is going to love his sense of humor.

I always wondered about those safety latches. It's good to know that the car isn't resting on hydraulic pressure when it's being worked on. Safety first!

Way to go, Wizzard. Thanks for the lesson. I haven't used a lift since my days in high school working part-time at the local Gulf gas staion. Those lifts came out of the concrete floor of the garage. Your new ones look great.

I criticize you sometimes in the comments when I think your wrong, disagree with things you say but here this is a great tutorial on using the lifts it is detailed enough that anyone after watching this should be able to use a lift properly and after watching this anyone that then does it incorrectly has no one to blame but themselves.

Thanks Wizards. Out here in the PNW. It's a relief to have a calm, orderly personality to help through these trying times. Keep it up.

That red Camaro almost looks exactly like the one Hoovie passed on a trailer at the salvage yard. Hmmm...

Thanks Mr and Mrs Wizard. Crazy times we live in, glad to have your channel.

Great video Wizard! May want to mention the need to grab the subframe areas on some unibodies like the 3rd gen F-Body. Pinch welds like to fold over on these, for example. On these if you fold over the pinch weld, you will some some difficulty ever unbolting the fenders. Thank you for keeping all of us entertained!

Thanks for the increased posting of videos as many people will need things to keep their minds off the current problems.

Wizard, have you ever had a car fall off a lift or the lift pad punch through a rusty chassis rail when lifting? Great videos btw.

Thanks for pumping out extra content during the quarantine.

My cousin isn't far from you and also has 2 Cadillac Allantes they are pretty cool cars. He was able to put a 4 post lift in his 3 car garage to park one underneath the other. One day i'll have a little shop where I can put a 2 post lift so I won't have to work on my back in the driveway. Love your work!

Wizard, you and Mrs. Wizard are the best thing going these days. Thanks for keeping it rolling :)

Thank you total novice here but not attached to a garage as part of my job and this helps so much

Thank you so much! This was such a simple and easy tutorial on how car hydraulic lifts work. I'm currently taking my first physics class and am studying fluids and pressure and all that right now. One of the example problems was about a car being held up by hydraulics and I could not clearly imagine in my head how that looks like like a car in the shop, but this video solved that!

I get to use one of these in class Monday for the first time.. glad I watched this video, it kind of will give me an advantage. Thank you!

Thank you David for the tips. I'm a first year apprentice starting my journey into the automotive field.

thank you!! .. more garage videos please .. tools, business, interesting stories .. etc

Extra videos!? Hell yeah!

I love this guy. Very pleasing to the ears, zero bullshit, great videos, thanks Wizzard.

Officially in lockdown out here in Los Angeles so I’m watching every video you have uploaded

I am about to buy a hoist and this video is an awesome quick tutorial. Very much appreciated and thankyou so much for taking the time to show us!

2 year old video but you still helped me out. GJ and you explain things so well. Thank you and keep it up.

True class in helping out a friends channel Wizard!

I use a lift everyday at work but I love to support my favorite youtubers

You have a great skill at instruction Car Wizard. Your ability to clearly explain and demonstrate is what makes your channel so successful. Plus your speech tempo is perfect.

I'm not a mechanic... at all... this is one of the most interesting channel's on YT. I picked the wrong career field. Thanks Wizard!

Very informative. Some lift have safety locks that doesn't engage at the same time ( like the first lift on your video ). So before removing the weight on the hydraulic, one must ensure that 2 safety locks are engaged or the car may end up tilted and may cause an accident.

I am lucky enough to have a 2 post asymmetrical 10k lift in my personal shop and I can tell you 20yrs of working on my back it was money well spent! It was a worth while investment for me!

these videos DO make a difference. Thanks wizard.

Have a Twin Busch mid-raise scissor lift in my shop. Getting ready to get a 6ft. Scissor lift, 4-post or 2-post lift for my garage that is almost ready to start working out of. Kinda worried about the 2-post lifts because of all the fails that's on RU-vid but for working on my Foxbody Mustangs I feel the 2-post would be much better for welding and floor replacements and other things as well. You video helped answer a couple questions I had and wondered about. Guess it's about like everything else, just have some common sense and thing about what your doing and keep it balanced and leveled well before you start lifting. Thank You Sir for a pretty good video. And if I get one I'm going to do some research and study more about the Bendpak lifts.

Buying a 2-post Lift was the best automotive tool I've ever purchased! Wife was hesitant to purchase, the cost wasn't in the lift but the concrete pad, but I've used it so many times to work on our own, and her parents car that she's come around and thinks it was a fantastic purchase. May want to get the first lift serviced though, the "clacks" of the stops were a little out of sync while the truck was being lifted. Could tell the passenger side was off compared to the driver's side by how the passenger side settled, before the driver's side, when you lowered it onto the security stops.

First YTer I've seen that mentioned giving us more entertaining content during these crazy times. Thanks Weezard!!!!

When I was in HS back in 1967, I was working an an Esso station. Across the street was a Texaco where the mechanic was lifting a Toronado to change the oil. I was taking care of a customer and heard a horrendous crash coming from the Texaco. I looked and saw the Toronado with its nose planted on the floor and the ass end still on the raised lift. The mechanic didn’t realize the nose heaviness of that car and lost it. I’ll never forget that day.

Wizard did you have to reinforce the concrete floor before installing the jack post. Thank you great vid as usual.

I use my left a few times this my first lift n I watched you a few times today for the 1st time n thanks. 👍🏽

Thank you for this tutorial! Very helpful! I need to check my Bendpak when I get home for lifting pads for the Toyota Prius. I have a 2004 Toyota Prius and the jack area is grooved not flat.

I like how you used the 2:1 mechanical advantage of pushing the top of the tire to move the truck back.

Im only going to say this once your the bob ross of cars and you make everything simple and easy keep it up

In europe two-post lift usually have electromagnetic safety release and solenoid valve to release pressure. In that lifts control box have 3 buttons: 1. lifting 2. lowering without releasing safety latches and 3. lowering to ground with safety latches released. Some control boxes even don't require using lifting from safety before lowering, while holding lowering to ground button automatically pump will energize for 2 second for lift from safety latches, next electromagnetic safety latches will be released and solenoid-valve will release fluid from hydraulic cylinders in posts.

I couldn't adore the Wizard any more than I do. I'm thinking about moving to Kansas so the Wizard can be my mechanic.

100 years ago we had 2 post lifts in school. All in floor hydrolic. Kid put one of those monster 70s Pontiac station wagons up without shaking it to make sure it was stable. When the lift topped out it shook , the car moved. It cracked the lift cylinder in the floor releasing the smoo. Car was secured with tall Jack stands and stayed there for months. We came in one day car was gone, they started to Jack hammer up the floor to replace the lift.

First person on You Tube I have ever seen properly push a vehicle by the tires. You actually get a bit of mechanical advantage by doing that.

Merci depuis la France de nous occuper pendant le confinement! :)

My new 2 post lift just got connected to power. Great video!

Thanks for sharing this. I can't tell you how scary this quarantine business has been, and it's such a major morale booster to have you share content like this.

Any updates on the Rolls powered Chevy truck?

This is way more interesting now that I'm confined to home than it might have been even a week ago! Thanks for great content I didn't even know I needed.

Pushing the top of tire is very clever. Only half the force is needed compared to pushing on the body. Very well done.

Get yourself some square lift arm adapters along with your round ones you have. Square for trucks/vans round for cars and other unibody vehicles. The square ones have a lip on each side so the vehicle can't slide or slip

If you press the safety latch while raising you don't need to hurt your ears from the clicking noise. Also a foam pad for your knees when placing the arms is so nice.

amazing tutorial and extra tidbits of knowledge, just like a wizard

Thanks for giving us the proper procedure on how to properly use a lift.

Thank you so much for helping me get through three weeks of lockdown to avoid getting the Carona Virus!

im glad you you said vw audi product its never been a bentley never will be, iv'e worked on rolls and bentleys for 45 years .

yes we are, greeting from Belgium

I'm 77, got a 9000lb lift in my home shop about 25 years ago. One of those things that I instantly realized I should have had 20 years earlier. I'm always amazed to see you moving cars by hand. Doesn't work in my shop which has the floor very slightly sloped for drainage. One thing that's not always emphasized is that a 10,000lb lift for example also means that each arm has a maximum rating of 2500lbs. So, you need to know the center of gravity of the vehicle and balance it both to not over balance the lift posts, and also to not overload the individual arms. I happen to own a truck scale at one of my businesses so I can weigh vehicles and know the center of gravity before I try to lift them. If you don't know how to lift a unibody you really need to look at the shop manual to find the correct lift points so that you don't bend it in the wrong place..

You make some of the best info videos ! Glad I found your channel !

You didnt use the pivoting arm locking latches. Those are the spring weighted taps near the frame. I believe they should be engaged after you have put the arms to correct position? The locking teeth and tap can be seen on left side of the video 17:23

Great video! You saved my life! God be with you.

I really like this guy . Very knowledgeable, And informative. If you like cars , this is always interesting .

Im taking forever to lift cars, always try to be super careful, love the videos!

Hi Car Wizard! What model Bendpak lift is that? I ordered a 10AP-168 (168 = height in inches) and am wondering if that is what's in this video. It looks like a 10AP or 10APX. Thank you. I was in the Automobile Repair Business from 1973-94 and enjoy your videos! It is particularly commendable, that every indication is, that your are intelligent, conscientious, honest and proud of your trade, as I was! Thank you! Michael, St. George UTAH

Thank you mr and mrs wizard. Very informative I never gave it a thought About how much is involved in lifting a truck or car safely

Thanks for the vid Wiz, as an Auto Tech student this was perfect to prep!

This is great content! There are not that many people out there that know how to operate a lift and operate it safely. Good job! 😁👍

That's awesome you gave us so many safety points i always use safety glasses when i am under a car on a lift. Great video

Like the active suspension, please check what the proper lift points are for a car. You do not really want to always use the weld at the bottom of the sills for it, either because it won;t support weight (or only in some reinforced sections) or because it's covered by plastic that will get crushed.

Putting the vehicle on the safety locks is something most technicians sadly don’t do until their doing a big job and don’t put it on the safety’s over night. Then they come in the next morning and wonder how the vehicle has now fallen off the lift and crushed their box. Then they’ll blame the lift even though it was user error. Gotta love it when the longest part of the job is literally lifting the car lmao

Hi, good demonstration, there is more to using a lift, than I thought, but very handy to have, and a must for a car repair shop! thx again, Clay Cook

Very informative, however, why not keep the hydraulic pressure as the primary force and have the mechanical latches in place as a backup? In the current configuration, if the latches ever do fail, there won't be any hydraulic pressure in the system to support the vehicle from completing collapsing. I would also put an oil dolly underneath as a third and last resort if all else fails.

I never thought about vehicles with active suspension control. Great vid.

Do a video on short-term and long-term fuel trims and what causes them to be high and low love the channel thanks wizard.

Thank you for adding time to your day to inform and entertain us.

Wizard, you are the best, wish I could bring my car to you.

Thanks for the lift overview. Appreciate you providing content.

I'm a little disappointed you didn't talk about the arm locks. They are an important part of safety also. I've had a leg kick out and drop a truck until it smashed the underside. I had to pay 1000$ out of my paycheck as a deductible for the shop I worked in Love the channel

Mr. Car Wizard, I would like to ask you why you selected Asymmetrical lifts vs. Symmetrical ones? Are the symmetrical lifts not stronger and more secure than their asymmetrical counterparts? Or is that not true? If you could share why one type vs that other it would be greatly appreciated.

Great video. Sounds like the first lift need some minor adjustments doing to it, because when it was being raised, the safeties were not clicking exactly at the same time meaning one side of the lift is slightly lower than the other. Hence you get the double clunk clunk as it goes up. Compare it to the second lift which is perfect. Just get Bendpak to come back out to sort it.