use hydraulic lifts down or up in winter for storeing
was wanting you guy ideas on this.. should i raise the tire off ground for winter using the hydraulic jacks
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mtrumpet wrote:
BTW, the rods on the hydraulic levelers are chrome plated not bare steel. They will not rust when exposed to the elements. (Think of the hydraulic cylinders on all the mobile equipment out there.)
Cylinders WILL rust over time. The oil coating will protect them for quite a while, but the chrome coating is amazingly porous. While in college, I worked nights in a factory that manufactured hyd cylinders. I ground the shafts to size, then polished them after they were chromed. If they weren't wiped down well from the coolant after polishing them, they would begin rusting before my shift was over.
Sure, adsorbed oil from retracting the shaft will protect them for a period of time. Usually they don't sit long enough for that protection to become a factor. If they do, they rust. You can get most of it off with steel wool though, and continue to march as though nothing happened.
I used to "take some of the weight off" with my jacks. The last time I did that, I found a retraction spring broken when I went to retract the jacks. Not quite sure how, or why that happened, but I quit doing it.
