Abstract: In a multi-purpose vehicle hoist including a wheel lift and a chassis lift, the elevational movement of the wheel lift may be used to generate a force to raise the chassis lift.

Abstract: A vehicle hoist includes a wheel lift operable to raise and lower a vehicle by its wheels, and a frame lift operable to raise and lower a vehicle by its frame. Each lift is disposed and operable to raise and lower the same vehicle independently of the other, one of the lifts being permanently mounted on the other to be raised and lowered thereby when the other is operated to raise and lower the vehicle. In its preferred form the lifts are hydraulically operated, the skirt of the lower piston being upwardly extended to form a chamber for the piston of the upper lift.