Grease!

What a day... After my brother in law and I set up the KONI car lift last Tuesday, I started cleaning it Wednesday evening. After five minutes I had this feeling of 'I wish I never started ...'.
You will understand that a car lift of 58 years of age (!!) does have it's share of oil, grease, dust and sand. I have never seen a car mechanic cleaning his car lifts.

Anyway, I figured it would be better to remove most parts to clean them separately. And loose parts mean greasy parts, as they have to move or rotate. Today I spend all day removing these parts and cleaning the area's around them. Also, my brother in law helped me to clean the parts we took of the lift. He has a parts cleaner in his workshop.

Forgot to tell this lift is fully mechanical, no hydraulics or whatever. One electric 380 Volt motor drives a large pulley, which is linked to a gearbox that drives the two pulleys to which the ropes are attached. The gearbox is normally filled with oil, but mine does have a small leak so all and everything was covered in oil.

I'm done 3/4th now. Good thing is that where's grease, there's no rust!

Too bad I didn't take any pictures today. On the other hand, that would have been impossible with my greasy fingers...