what's wrong with the jack? No lift!!!!!
The oil level is fine. Do you think we need a separate posting for recommended jack oil? wonder if they have synthetic... what about the weight? do you need non energy conserving jack oil

OK.. nuff of that.... tried purging the air per the manual.
Hell, just got up enough motivation to remove the wheel and now I'm messing around with the freakin jack. Kinda reluctant to get into tearing that thing apart.
From looking at various internet post their are a number of folks PO'd at Sears for not selling a replacement jack for their lift. Sears has an SOL attitudes I think.
May be less hassle to just buy another entire lift... (from someplace other than Sears)
I doubt like 7734 if there is anything wrong with your lift. Sears lift has a pretty worthless bottle jack on their unit.
Take the old bottle jack off, go to Harbor Freight, walk in the door and tell em you are looking for a bottle jack like this. They will be all over ya like stink on a black and white kitty....... If ya have to drill holes, do so, you can't hurt the jack any.
If you want to see if it will lift the jack before ya drill holes, lay it in place and jack away. You might have to open and close the valve knob by hand.
Quick question, are you sure the handle is closing that valve on your current jack? It wouldn't be the 1st time I saw one that was out of alignment.