hey everybody its Justin welcome back to my pit lane garage today we have a very
fun video for you I'm going to be unboxing my brand-new QuickJack that I
just received in the mail today obviously still in the boxes we're going
to get this thing unboxed get it set up and hopefully test it out today we'll
see how much time I have but I am very very excited for this one no more eject
in finally I have some sort of automated lift system to get my car up and off the
ground I'm underneath the BRZ and my BMW a lot and I get really tired of jacking
that thing up because it's a pretty intense process with a lower car like
this I need ramps I need side Jack's to get the side of the car jacked up to fit
the main jack underneath and anyways I'm really looking forward to the QuickJack
seeing how it works so let's go in and get started like I said we'll get this
thing unboxed show you what comes in the package what you get for what you pay
for we'll get it set up and trying to test
it out
everything is out of the box we have a lot of different parts here kind of go
over what comes in the box when you buy your quick Jack this is a 3500 pound
version it's the smallest or most inexpensive version that they sell I
think they have a promo going on on the quick Jack website for I can't remember
if it was nine hundred dollars or nine hundred and ninety dollars that's where
I bought it from and it seemed like the best deal out there at the time so what
is in the box obviously we have the two long frame assemblies we have I draw a
power unit back here we have a number of quick connect hoses it looks like about
two hoses for each assembly all of the quick connect fittings that come with
the kit and an assortment of rubber lift blocks these are the pieces that you put
on the frame assembly that actually touch or make contact with the jack
points on your car and these guys here quick frame handles I'm not quite sure
what they're used for just yet but once we get into the instructions we'll
figure it out
so next I'm going to go ahead and start the process of assembling all of the
hoses and fittings the instructions are pretty in-depth and detailed so I'm not
going to do a detailed video on how to put this thing together or set it up you
want to follow the instructions exactly as they are stated in the manual
they are pretty straightforward and simple there's just quite a few steps in
there we're getting all of these quick connects the fittings and the fouls and
things hooked up in the proper areas
all right so I have the first of the fittings installed it's basically these
little 90-degree fittings I have an o-ring on one side I'll show you them
right here so basically these fittings here are the first step they fit on to
the long tube cylinder and the thing you need to keep in mind is when you tighten
them down they need to be in a 10 o'clock position so as you can see this
is pointing outwards and a 10 o'clock position this would be your vertical or
12 o'clock now the second step for the fittings is to install these little air
inflation valves and I've been sitting here staring at my instructions for a
few minutes looking for these vowels because it does say to put teflon tape
on them thread them into the air inflation valves themselves but on my
kit they are already installed so I'm not sure if this was a kit that was sent
out and somebody installed it or tried to start installing it and returned it I
hope that's not the case but at any rate my little air inflation valves were
already installed will show you which ones I'm talking about here so these
guys here that fit on the smaller cylinder those are the air inflation
valves so with those guys installed actually the next step and this is
pressurizing those air bottles the instructions call for 50 psi of air
pressure in those little air cylinders so I'm going to grab my compressor
behind me here and my air gauge my air pressure gage will fill up the cylinder
check the air pressure and make sure it's at 50 psi
so the canisters are now pressurized again it's 50 psi max when the rails are
down like this there is warnings calls over the
instructions that say don't inflate above 50 psi it can be very dangerous
when you do go to lift the jacks and there's more pressure in there than
there should be so leave the warnings in the manuals and you will be fine so the
next step is prepping the power unit itself there's a couple fittings that go
into the power unit they are these male-male looking fittings one side has
an o-ring on it and the other side does not have an o-ring on it what we're
going to do is take some of the provided teflon tape wrap the side that does not
have an o-ring on it and then we'll install the fitting into the lower port
first get it tightened down and there's actually a quick-release this guy here
this fitting this threads on to the male end of the fitting coming out of the
power unit we'll do that for the bottom port and again for the top port
basically the same process just repeated
now that we have those fittings in place is time to fill up the reservoir with
some ATF fluid some automatic transmission fluid the instructions call
for two and a half quarts approximately of Dexron three ATF or similar fluid
now with the reservoir all filled up the next step is actually taking our longer
hoses removing all the little plastic end caps that are on there wrapping
those in the teflon tape and then we're going to be screwing on the larger
female quick disconnect fittings and yes these are the females even though they
have a flat face I assure you that he's guys do actually connect to the male
Quick Connect fittings I've never seen that female quick disconnect fitting
like this but it does fit
all right the long hoses are equipped with the female fittings here's what
they look like and what's the cap off
all right I think we're at the last of our fitting attachments we're grabbing
the short hoses they're just a couple feet long one side has a male threaded
end which attaches to this male quick disconnect fitting the other side is a
female end which connects to the fitting that we put on in the first step I think
it was the jack itself okay we have the fittings attached to the short hoses I
didn't show you how that was done because it's basically the same thing we
did before on the longer hoses wrap them with teflon tape then tighten down the
male fittings the other ends are compression fittings which are going to
attach again to the 90 degree fittings down on the hydraulic cylinders
themselves
the assembly is now complete I have both of the quick Jack laid out on the garage
floor here we're going to start connecting up all of the hoses we're
going to take each of our long hoses with the large female fittings on them
connect those to each of the hydraulic pumps on each quick jack basically these
two go together here and then the same thing over on the other side once we
have those the tasks take the other ends of those
way back here these are going to attach to our powers unit okay we're all hooked
up I'm going to double-check the air cylinders because the instruction manual
says so before you do the first list or the priming of the system so I'm going
to double check those I'll set up the camera and then we'll get ready to do
the first test list all right everybody we're ready to go everything is hooked
up double-check I am donning my safety glasses because there are explosion
warning labels all up over these air cylinders so safety first guys all right
here we go at my detonator I mean my up and down button we're going to see what
it does
all right we had sounds from the motor but the no action yet I'm not sure if
it's still priming the tubes probably with the fluid so we'll give it a little
bit more here
why
all right so the initial test was successful it did take a few seconds for
the fluid to fill up the line in silica hydraulic system so no issues there
everything went as planned the manual does say to cycle it up and down a few
times to about half height you don't want to jack it up to full height
without any load on it according to the manual so I'm going to go ahead and do
that start cycling in a few more times and then there's actually a bleeding
process that you have to do I got to go read the instructions but I got to get
through that and then hopefully we can get this thing under the car and get the
car up in the air so we cycle the jacks up and down a few times now get the
fluid all throughout the system next up is leading the hydraulic cylinders of
air bubbles and fluid so what you're going to do is get two jacks up a half
height like this and then on the back of the hydraulic cylinders there's a little
screw in there with a hex head on the end or an allen key you want to loosen
that up just a little bit and then it says to tap the up button a couple times
on the controller to get fluid to push through the hydraulic unit basically
what you're doing is bleeding out any of the air bubbles and that fluid that's
gotten into the bottom of those hydraulic tubes so I'm going to put the
camera up close it's probably going to be a little bit messy and naturally I
only have one rubber glove left this is so I'm gonna get the camera down there
attempt to get you an idea of what it looks like to bleed out these hydraulic
cylinders we're going to loosen me Allen nuts just a little bit okay we're go
ahead and tap our up button a couple times and see if it starts bleeding out
there we go now I see some fluid coming out of there
hard to tell if there's any air or not believe it out one more time and then
tighten up the nut I can't see the fluid coming out down there now you want to
tighten that bolt up snug not too tight and as you can see the fluid did come
out of there I don't know how you're supposed to tell if there's actually air
so that coming out of there but we did a few few pumps of the fluid so it should
be cleaned out now that we have the air blood out of the hydraulic pumps you
actually have to bleed out the air canisters the manual says there's some
packing fluid or something in there so you got to have them filled up to their
50 psi of air pressure and then bleed them out with a screwdriver or some kind
of valve relief tool and cover it with a rag or a towel or something because when
the air bleeds out it's going to push out some fluid in things so we'll do
that real quick one other thing after that which is to check the reservoir for
the ATF fluid you want to make sure that you top off the ATF fluid it says that
the fluid should be 1/2 inch from the top of the canister so we'll do that as
well we can finally get this car up on there and see how it really works
so I'm not seeing much of anything coming out of the air cylinder I'll fill
it up with 50 psi of air pressure again and bleeded once more see if anything
else comes out of it but I think we should be okay with that
all right everybody we're just about there I got the car straightened out in
the garage so I had some more room on the other side I've already got the
jacks set up on the far side of the car I'm actually going to be using the big
blocks it comes with a couple different sides of these blocks to use and I
thought with being as low as my car is I would have to use the shorter blocks
they're half the height of these ones but larger ones do fit in there so that
will give us more overall lift so we'll just slide it underneath here make sure
our hose isn't bound on anything and you kind of want to line it up to the jack
on the other side so line up where your rubber blocks are so horizontally across
the car you want to make sure those guys are lined up then we're going to line up
the rubber blocks so that they're right in the middle of our jacking points and
I think it should be good to go all right I've checked all of those make
sure everything is clear set the triple checked again got my safety glasses I
think I've got enough room at the front of the garage because the car will go
forward a little bit as it lists but enough wasting time let's see what this
thing does
now it says to not stop the jack until you're beyond the halfway point so we'll
get it past the initial lock and then let it down all right so the car is up
that wet smooth a little bit of a pucker moment appear to be honest with you but
I'm going to go around check things out give it a look see underneath just to
make sure everything looks kosher and then we'll lift it up the rest of the
way all right so I check things out everything looks good I wanted to show
you guys something real quick the way these lifts are designed they're not
totally wide enough to actually go the full length of where your normal jack
points are so see if I can get some good light under here but you'll notice my
normal Jack point is right here and the Melissa block is a few inches in front
of it which is totally fine I did that on the front as well so what you want to
make sure to do here's the stock Jack point the distance to the lift block in
the front and the back is the same distance from here to here that way you
just have everything balanced properly in the weight distribution is correct
the other thing I wanted to show you guys is the locking mechanism these have
built in safety features so these are safety lock devices as they're called it
has this little cam block down here that just hangs there so when the jack is
elevating the bar is going across the bottom here and there's a little notch
down there you can't see it because it's locked in place but the other not right
down there when the cam lock rolls over that thing obviously comes up and
there's a notch in this bar here that allows the jack to lock in place when it
slides backwards so that's kind of your safety mechanism now even with these
safety devices in place I personally would highly recommend using jack stands
as well you can still fit a jack stand under the normal Jack points down here
just for added safety especially when you're going to be going underneath the
car to do like an exhaust or a header or something like that if you're just
changing out wheels which I you a lot almost on a weekly
basis I'm probably just going to lift it up to the first lockout point here and
then I can do my work on the tires and be done I don't need jack stands or
anything like that since I won't be under the car so we have the car up
halfway it's at the halfway lockout point we're going to raise it back up to
the full height looks like it goes another six or seven inches but we're
going to get it up there and see how high it actually goes all right here we
go rest of the way up
you watch closely you can see that a cam lock as it slips over the lockout hold
there go so we're over the lockout point we can go ahead and hit the down button
now the safety lockout arms have lowered down on to the safety lock point and the
car basically stops where it is even though I'm still hitting the down line
all right so we raised all the way up here we're gonna see just how high off
the ground it gets I brought one of my jack stands over for reference and
obviously the jacks and goes maybe about two and a half and three inches higher
than the car but I'm not going to lie I'm not going to Jack my car up this
high all bodily jacked in I usually only go about four notches or about that high
max when I'm working on my car that's all the room I need and that's kind of
what I'm comfortable with when I do jack stands the quick jack goes about the
same height as what I'm used to working on so for a measurement on the rear at
the rear Jack point was sitting at right about eighteen and a quarter inches we
swing over to the front it's right about the same maybe about 18 inches so
there's just a tad bit of a slope towards the front I don't know if that
just because of the rubber jack pads but overall it's pretty level and again just
demonstrates I can fit a jack stand down there raise it up to the stock jack
points so we have added safety if needed when we're going underneath the car and
doing some work all right so we've got the car up in the air now if we have to
bring the car down and the way you do that is you have to release the safety
lock devices first so what you do is actually raise the car back up a couple
inches so those cam locks down on the bottom
they'll kind of flip up and then the way that they're fixed on there when the car
starts coming back down they'll actually roll over the lockout points so we'll
take it up a little bit
just enough so that we can list the safety lock bar up and that little cam
lock flips down I went ahead and did the same thing on the other side real quick
so now we should be safe to lower the car so with those cam blocks down
they're actually going to rule right over the safety lockout point so a
little jiggle by the car as the tires come down onto the surface I'm going to
release the ebrake just to get the tension out of the wheels and everything
alright everybody I think that just about wraps up this video the quick Jack
was a success I'm pretty happy with it so far I think this is going to save me
lots and lots of time and effort when it comes to getting my car up and down off
the ground where I have to do tires or sauce or suspension work so from my
point of view this is pretty good value for nine hundred or a thousand dollars
for the 3500 SLX quickjack for those of you that are only getting under your
cars maybe once or twice a year a few times a year it's probably not worth it
Jackson traditional Jacksons are probably the
way to go but for those of us that are working on cars a lot multiple cars like
myself and a lot of you out there I'm sure as well doing the same thing this
is a big time saver when you can't fit a full-size lift in your garage so there
you have it everybody quickjack 3500 SLX model unboxing and setup and testing
using my Subaru BRZ as the test car of course all of my cars are well under
3500 pounds that's what this particular quick jack is rated for they do make
models that can lift even more weight of course they're more expensive but I am
certainly happy with this one so far I think after a few weeks and after I'd
use it some more I'll probably do another video where we talk about is it
worth it to get one of these quickjacks and I'll let you know how it's been
me but so far with these first test definitely can't complain so that does
it everybody if you have any thoughts questions or comments please leave them
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