.Measure from ground to position of each arm to check if different side to side. Usually the cables have some adjustment on the ends.

Might unload car from it and run it up and down fully a couple of time then try again.

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Should I do this with a car on it or off it?

 

Level the cables.

 

OP - is your slab level? Serious question. Look at your pic.

 

Was gonna say same thing!

 

While we're lookin at stuff! The conduit is crooked also!
The oil is level!!

 

Not really. Oil level looks higher on left than right

 

When you lower to locks does it even out or does it stay crooked? The arms look more even than the car. Lifting from wonky spots underneath?

 

Stays crooked... lifting from the same spots on both sides.. the passenger side front arm seems to be angled down harder than the rest of them

 

The slab is not perfectly level, when arms are fully down one set rubs the ground and the other set is like an inch or two off the ground..

 

You answered your own question right here.
Your columns aren’t even. Aim the arms at each other. Raise the lift. Watch them either drift apart or closer. You will see also that they aren’t going up level. Your columns either aren’t fully plumb or one side of your bay is lower than the other.
I know with my Rorary SPOA-10, you can get a solid steel leveling plate for a situation like yours. You very well may need to do that.
I fought with mine trying to get it absolutely perfect. Every time you torque the bolts down it shifts a teeny bit. I got it perfect though.
Anything over 1/4” thick on a shim though you should full under the pad with non shrinking grout.

You’re probably going to have to get the leveling plates for under the pad on one side.

 

 

THIS ^^^^^^^^

 

Driver side needs more buffing..

 

Someone sprayed black paint on your license plate.

 

That don't hide nothin'. If we want it we can extract the GPS data embedded in the picture binary code.

How do we know the camera was level?

Same as above.

 

The lift looks level to me, looks like the jacking point heights and/or suspension are the difference.

 

Extensions under the frame pads on left, not on right?

 

 

Adjust the cable, easy to do and should be done every time a lift is installed. Over time they will stretch slightly and need readjusted as well.

 

The pad seems to lean the other way.

 

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How do we know the camera was level?

 

The pad listing makes the left arm aim up and the right arm aim down. Unless it's an optical illusion based on camera angle.

 

The right side lift arms are lower than the left side lift arms. Either bent or out of adjustment.

 

This

 

put a plumb bob and a carpenters square , and steel, tape measure on those vertical support columns
Id bet they are not perfectly vertical and parallel, run the lift arms up to eye level and measure the distance,
too the slab surface on both arms in the extended position.

 

Never go full Mustang.

 

Arms look to be the same height .

Car looks crooked .

 

Cables are not adjusted right. I bet if you grabbed the cables when the car is on it one will be tight and the other loose af

 

Look how much lower the right rear tire is compared to the arms .

The arms look level .

 

If he is down on the locks then cable adjustment is not going to make a difference. Has the same problem with my new worth lift, right side column was made about 1/4 inch lower so therefore all the lock steps was going to be shorter then the left side. I lived with for awile and the company said they could adjust it, never did so I got it replaced, just the right column though. Now thing is level works good

 

Could it be that it’s just pushed to far to the right thus loading those arms more?

I didn’t notice a significant different in tension of the cables and that is the car sitting on the locks.

Do people typically pick up on the pinch welds? I didn’t but I’ve read some people do that

 

Could it be that it’s just pushed to far to the right thus loading those arms more?

I didn’t notice a significant different in tension of the cables and that is the car sitting on the locks.

Do people typically pick up on the pinch welds? I didn’t but I’ve read some people do that

Yes, you need to pick up on surfaces that are level side to side and if they are not level front to back then you adjust the feet (that's why they are threaded) until you have the same distance between the lift pad and the lift point of the car front to back.

Keep in mind no slab is completely level and cars often have a corner that sits lower than others so don't get too anal on this. But by the same token if the car does not have perimeter pinch welds at the same height front and back you will either need to adjust the feet or accept a high in the back/front stance when lifted.

I did most my mechanicing before the total dominance of uni-bodies and it was very common to have a few short sections of 2x4, 4x4 and 6x6 to level the vehicles...particularly on Chevy trucks with the step frame.

 

LOL at the people saying the pad looks like it is not level.......The camera is being held crooked. If the camera was held level that would mean the pad is off about 1 foot from right to left, plus the car would be leaning the other way. A blind guy building the concrete forms would get it closer than 1 foot out of level. God god people

 

So how do you explain the posts not looking plumb to the pad?

 

Assuming the slab and lift posts are all level,

Get some plastic tubing, water and dye.

With the car up in the air to load the lift, take the Spanish builders lazer (the plastic tube full of colored water) and see if the two lift arms are at the same height.

If not adjust cables till they are.

Now raise the car again and make sure the part of the arms where the lift pads thread into are at the same height.

If not decide if you want to repair the lift (sometimes its something as simple as a missing bushing at the point where the bolts go through the lift arms).

Or whether you want to mickey mouse it and adjust the lift pads to compensate for the misalignment/bent parts.