Transmission Jack

Rich Z · 01-12-2016, 07:21 PM

Was taking a closer look at the new transmission jack yesterday, and noticed that the adapter head (or I believe it is called a "saddle") had some play with the tilt adjustment as well as the lateral movement adjustment. There are adjustment nuts on both threaded portions of the saddle, so I ran them as tight as they would go, and there was still a noticeable gap between the locking nut and the washers. So I just added another washer or two to take up the slack and that seemed to remove just about all of the play.

Now I did notice that whereas the lateral adjuster had thrust bearings on both sides of the shaft that actually moves the platform, the tilt adjuster lacks a bearing on the top side. Not sure if that is intentional or not, as there really doesn't look like there is enough space to put another bearing there anyway. I put oil on the bearings and the sliding surfaces, and it seemed to work smooth enough.

01-12-2016, 07:21 PM	#4
Rich Z Administrator Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Crawfordville, FL Posts: 193	Was taking a closer look at the new transmission jack yesterday, and noticed that the adapter head (or I believe it is called a "saddle") had some play with the tilt adjustment as well as the lateral movement adjustment. There are adjustment nuts on both threaded portions of the saddle, so I ran them as tight as they would go, and there was still a noticeable gap between the locking nut and the washers. So I just added another washer or two to take up the slack and that seemed to remove just about all of the play. Now I did notice that whereas the lateral adjuster had thrust bearings on both sides of the shaft that actually moves the platform, the tilt adjuster lacks a bearing on the top side. Not sure if that is intentional or not, as there really doesn't look like there is enough space to put another bearing there anyway. I put oil on the bearings and the sliding surfaces, and it seemed to work smooth enough.