Cheap DIY Motorcycle Lift

working on the ground smokes motorcycle

lives are like thousands of $1500 there

is that cheap Harbor Freight one I'm

gonna talk about that two seconds

instead spending a whole bunch of money

or getting something big and heavy we're

gonna try to build our own motorcycle

live today now there is that Harbor

Freight one about 450 bucks listen I'm

not I'm not an artist okay you get the

idea there's so much in problems this

lift is one the way it hinges itself up

once it's all the way up that's fine but

in the sort of half lifted section you

can see where the center of balance of

this thing is way off from where

exception the ground these things can

tip forward I know from working in shops

that 99% of time I use my work I

actually only used it like one to two

feet off the ground that's honestly best

place to use it you sit in your chair

you get your hands on your legs stand

here your motorcycles all jacked up in

the air and you stand here you can sell

but can't see you up here so that's my

first problem with it but the problem

with this style lift is because it's a

harbored frail it's about 350 to 400

pounds so this thing's not really easy

to drag around the garage I actually use

my garage like as a garage and I'm not

doing work in here I pulled my car in so

I need to lift that can actually get

dragged out of the way pretty easily now

a lot of the scissor lifts could still

meet this demand and the scissor lifts

are much safer it like for the half

raised position and they're not quite as

heavy they're still pretty heavy but you

can move them around get them up against

the wall or something but like I said

they're like a thousand of 15 on your

dollars for one of those but I actually

found that guys video online $200

motorcycle lifts it doesn't have a lot

of detail in it kind of watched a couple

times I feel like I've got a pretty good

grasp of what he did in the video

the gentleman basement takes one of

those ATV jacks underdog little Jack

here hinges up and down it doesn't go

super high in the air like that's fine

with us

it's meant for things that sit across it

the straddle across it this way we're

gonna do it when I cut that down the

middle separated like this maybe a

little further we're gonna put some

steel tubing in here bolted in because I

don't have a welder representing wood

with blue when you deck on the top of it

here motorcycle sit up here like this I

said this this lift will only get the

bike a few feet off the ground and I

don't know if I want to put a massive

motorcycle on it but my bikes way under

400 pounds I'm pretty sure this thing

will easily handle five six hundred

pound bike when it's all said and done

we show you what I got

motorcycle ATV Jackson heavy grey

plywood I picked up a while back this is

actually like rated for like walking on

that wheezing handle the bike especially

was supportive whatever needed metal and

all that stuff we're gonna do good a few

two by fours in the corner I think I

might pick up a few more steel tubing

and an assortment of hardware and this

little wheel chock thing probably a

little less than 200 into all this the

first thing to do is actually just build

the atv jacket sell

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gentleman with the video online that I

saw did this has actually moved this bar

up to where the will was on his and the

reason why is you see the him to try to

cut it across here it's just way too

tight in fact a lot of stuff this bowls

onto that's on this bar we can't really

do that we need to do it he did admit

they move this hinge point up a little

bit so my plan is to pull this pin here

but it's buried somewhere down here

about the problem though with that still

is there's no support for it out here

and there's a small tab on these tears

so if you have a welder you can probably

make a little piece of metal right here

and well that on my exit I don't have

longer so my plan is to take a bit of my

steel tubing here which I'm gonna have

to cut down anyway take a little piece

off here cut it down the middle and then

try to bend it into some little L

brackets so I feel like this is just

easier to go ahead and do why it's all

together

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I stopped you see the hinging motion is

a little off like this

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was definitely easier ways get you

strips of metal

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that's going pretty good so far but now

is the big wall of cutting this thing in

half

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what's up guys

I'll just keep dinner up here like this

so the top bars need to be the longer

bar since we extended the bottom this

tube side puppies at 6 foot so I'm just

going to use the to six foot sections on

the top will make it simpler the bottom

the bottom ones because they're hollow

and there's a lot of wasted over there I

think you pretty much sit anywhere

within that channel but will also put

two bolts down at the bottom of ultimen

and we'll figure out the link that that

use the beat in a minute I probably

should have measured before I cut it

from the hole where we've moved the

bottom to where we moved it out to but I

have it and if I put it back together

now there's some millimeters missing

because of the cob we made it's not a

big deal

I'll make it work

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so I'm going to drill these two hole all

the way through this bar then I'm going

to take another bar put it up next to it

do the same thing that I can flip that

one around both ends will have these

same four holes with the exact same

spacing

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all right so we've got our drill to the

top it's as well is it all of our

extension bars on the top on the back

one here I'm gonna drill some holes

using something again like this sort of

make a template with some of those same

holes in the bars through the front I'm

gonna drill holes in this but not in the

bar because if you remember we need to

make sure that the distance is correct

between the bottom bit and there's

enough hollow room in here for the bars

that easily slide up in there and take

up the difference we've have in the

spacing I'm confident it'll work just

back

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start we're going to put everything in

on this side loose and then we'll kind

of bring them together because this is

so much smaller than this one on this

bolt is actually running a second out on

the inside and one on the outside

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don't mind the angle because we still

need to adjust the bottom but because

all the bolts are in down I'm going to

hang them all up everything's bolted and

tighten the I except matted where I

still don't have holes as you can see

here these kind of adjustments so we

need to figure out exactly what it put

it originally I thought maybe I could

put a level across here but you know the

floor has got a slight decline to it is

all garage to do anyway so I have

another idea this platform and that

platform down there I need to be

basically the same height off the ground

it's like a break side lock down in the

correct position once I try to do I can

rock this thing up on its side

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if I haven't pointed out yet but the

steel is just there to give it lateral

strength I mean the 2x4 is going along

the side they're gonna give it a lot of

strength which we're gonna do next and

that's what the deck is gonna bolt to

and the decks gonna give you even more

strength

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on the backend of course you put a 2x4

going across there it should be great

from Bolton deck too and all that jazz

but on the front here is not really a

way to do that when this thing comes

down these are basically going straight

back because they're the kind of decking

suffering be using it's strong enough

that spanning that gap even with my

weight on it like but I'd like to have

something here so it's actually about

the depth of a piece of plywood that we

need to fill in I turn these nuts they

had a flat face of it that was

horizontal I take this trim it so it

fits in here perfectly fine even

necessarily worried about bolting it

let's just give a little extra you know

something cuz some of that weight will

be pushed into here plus when I go to

put the wheel chalk on the wheel chock

chock whatever gonna call it it'll tie

kind of into this and this is the whole

top deck on top here so sadly we think

it's really necessary but I'll sleep

better knowing I did it you know okay I

love it

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I don't even know if it's gonna need

nuts at this point I mean obviously were

gonna put him on with I thought she'd go

back and drill down bigger that was like

I guess I'll just leave them like this

because it'll make it nice and tight

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I just need to add something little

hooks in here put the legs in that down

position because this is where the quick

clearances are the tightest so taking my

little nut here you can see there's like

just enough room for this thing

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turned it on its side here we want to

put some clips in the back as well it's

done actually wheels around pretty

easily which you definitely can't do

with a four hundred and fifty dollar

Harvard Freight yeah let's get the ramp

on it I guess so we'll put a bike on it

Isis to go for it FZ o 7s a heavier bike

let's put that on there

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pretty staple I mean if I can move a

little bit Matt the stand itself you

know that's whatever right there it's

not it's his it's good and there's the

part that I'm really excited about this

like look here's like I can change the

oil without getting on the ground

doing this this is like the height I

would always put my lift at a lot of

times too and I'd rather my lips look

like eat your hands on your knees and

tools and you can I feel like you're a

little more stable this way it's all in

all the builds cost probably around two

to two hundred fifty dollars depending

on what parts you Mary have lying around

as far as building it wasn't hard to do

EJ just took a little more time than I

thought it would it does the job I want

it's still narrow enough and lightweight

enough that I can roll this thing around

Park it up decks the side of my garage

and pull my car in here which is exactly

what I wanted it is a bit more narrow

than a normal lift is but it also

doesn't go to your time like I said I

don't have any stability properties the

lift itself is literally like once

there's a bike on it I I cannot make it

rock or move it all right kind of

painted the metal I could have painted

this would part my wife told me aren't

you gonna paint it I was like why do you

see I just literally it's all

functionality for me I just don't care

did you have any suggestions or any

ideas you think that would make it

easier be sure to leave those in the

comments and you know any questions of

course and it's a good thing it'll hold

the m07 tube because the bike is about

to be going back up on this lift to do

quite an interesting project and then

you guys want to see another project out

of me and I I've been a little busy

lately but we're back on it and got some

really cool parts coming no thanks for

watching see you on the next video