How high does the car have to be to attach to the Bottoms Up Lift?
The adjustable Bottoms Up Lifts will pick a car body or frame off from a set of jack stands. The fixed height units require the body be lifted about 30-35″ from the floor. If varies somewhat depending on the balance adjustment. The fixed height lifts are made to 360 degree rotate the widest body we’ve found. The Body Lift, which we manufacture, is made to remove bodies from the frame and set on the Bottoms Up Lift. It uses your engine hoist (cherry picker). The adjustable units save a little work on unibody cars because you can jack them right off the jack stands. The adjustable option also does give you the ability to pick how high to have the body when working on it. Doing side panel work, you might elect to not have it high enough to rotate the car. However, the fix height units work fine. I look at it this way. If I was using the tool every day to restore cars, I’d spend the extra couple hundred for the convenience. If I was only doing one car, I’d stick with the fixed height, unle
