FINALLY finished my Hein-Werner restoration............whew!

Finally finished this beast! Took way longer than I anticipated but it came out pretty nice. Many thanks to Hiball for his rebuild kit and technical help and also to Elroy, without whose 2 rebuild threads, I wouldn't have even tried!

Here's a couple of before and after pics.

BEFORE..........







AFTER..........











Here's a couple of little tricks that might help someone if they're undertaking this task.

First off, when filling the ram, these things take exactly 8 oz of hydraulic jack fluid. It's best to fill a measuring cup with 8 oz because the ram will only take a little at a time and you have to keep 'burping' it to get all the fluid in.



These Hein-Werners have a tiny fill hole. What worked really well was the application tube from a tube of RTV. Then use the smallest funnel from one of those nested funnel sets that you can pick up at the dollar store.



Now, you really need a face spanner wrench to loosen and tighten the brass packing nut on the ram. You can try a hammer and punch but you'll pretty much wind up destroying the brass nut. I didn't want to spend $35-$50 for the proper tool, so I made my own. Took about 10 minutes! I had a piece of scrap 1-1/2" aluminum bar stock laying around. I measured the distance between the slots in the packing nut and transfered that to the bar stock. Drill and tapped 2 holes and threaded in 2 bolts. Ground flats in the ends of the bolts to fit in the packing nut slots. Worked like a charm!







I'm really glad this is done. Now I can move on to my Craftsman drill press resto!

Congrats man... Now its time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Rock'n BABY! I can't get over how awesome older jacks and vintage equipment looks when restored! Thanks for sharing! Awesome!

Very impressive!!!!!!!!

Beautiful job! I'm looking for one of those babies myself. I thought I found one on craigslist last month. Was advertised as 2 ton Hein Werner jack which it was. But it also was some cheapo line that was made in Taiwan. Boy was I pissed for wasting my time driving all the way to that guys house.

You did an excellent job .. bravo

I hope you're not going to use that on dirty, greasy cars now.

Beautiful job, the thing looks like new. Did you touch up the name plate or just clean it up? How about an after shot of the name plate.

Welcome to the Hein-Werner club. A very satisfying experience. Congratulation.

OH, By the way:

Nice color combination.

Excellent!!

Nice work

Great work, I wish I could find one like that to work on.

Awesome - I like that tool you made. I don't have a welder, so I may have to make one like that some day. Thanks!

Very nice job on that jack. I also am in the process of restoring one of my Hein-Werner jacks. I took the easier route and sent Hiball the hydraulics to rebuild.