Lifting your car up in the garage

CaptainJack · 20th April 2015, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Captain Jack.
Your shed is too tidy,so is that D2 I saw in your other thread!!!!!
Im fortunate,have a well equipped shed at home,and when I need to get underneath we have a 2 post hoist at work.
IF I ever build another shed it will have a hoist!!!!!
Andrew

IM a clean freak. I have a 3 car garage with painted and polished floors - make its easy to see landrover oil leaks

But not for long as we have to move soon.

- perhaps the next place i will build a BIG shed and put a proper lift in.

**DoubleChevron** · 1st May 2015, 10:12 AM

Look for some obsolete old alignment ramps....

they often come up on ebay... These ones had huge air rams that used to tilt them. I just cut them all away and tilt them with a trolley jack.

seeya,
Shane L.

**d2dave** · 7th May 2015, 09:48 PM

I just use my hoist. Before I had a hoist I used to get it nice and high and use four axle stands. Being doing this for years and never had a problem.
Back in the eighties I worked in a Ford stealership. We had about 12 spanners and four apprentices.
The workshop only had three hoists so I did all my work on the floor.

Nice and high and four stands. If doing an oil change it has to be level to drain properly.
And when doing a service brakes have to be checked, so wheels have to come off

**nat_89** · 9th May 2015, 07:45 PM

Ill have to agree if i built a place i would throw in a hoist as they are only a few grand extra not to much at all!!

Heres a great one on Jay Lenos Garage if only haha

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz5Y34fUjlA[/ame]

**crackers** · 30th May 2015, 07:47 PM

My first house had a pit - wonderful.
Nowadays, I use normal car stands. Going to have to get some more because I'm beginning a restoration and she'll be spending a lot of time jacked up without wheels while I need my axle stands for servicing the MG.

It all comes down the needs and money doesn't it. When I finally get to buy another house, I'd be very tempted to install a hoist ... only if I'm paying off a house, I wouldn't be able to afford one would I.

**Blknight.aus** · 31st May 2015, 09:34 AM

I use car ramps or old rims dpending on how much lift I need

**Fluids** · 31st May 2015, 10:23 AM

I had to do an oil change on my sons Mitsubishi Legnum during the week ... Dam thing sits ricer low. The BIG trolley jack only just squeezed in under the front skirt ... Jack the front end up high enough to get timber blocks (sleeper sized stuff) under the front tyres and we're good to go ... Like Cap'n Jack's done ... Nowhere under this car to put axle stands so blocks and an extra 250mm under the front wheels makes the job easy ...

On the D2 I used axle stands but only to support the axle/s when I have wheels off ... I'm a big fella but still plenty of room under the D2 for me to slide under (use a large sheet of cardboard that wraps around the brushcutter boxes we get delivered - doesn't matter how much stuff hits the deck as you slide the cardboard out from under and dispose of if it's too grotty/oily).

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**pop058** · 24th September 2015, 06:59 PM

Another idea.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaw72F78_8[/ame]

**DoubleChevron** · 25th September 2015, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by pop058

Another idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVaw72F78_8

Now that's scary ..... what's a defender ... 2.5ton'ish loaded up for the road ......... that thing has a rated lifting capacity of 2tons

**DoubleChevron** · 25th September 2015, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by Fluids

I had to do an oil change on my sons Mitsubishi Legnum during the week ... Dam thing sits ricer low. The BIG trolley jack only just squeezed in under the front skirt ... Jack the front end up high enough to get timber blocks (sleeper sized stuff) under the front tyres and we're good to go ... Like Cap'n Jack's done ... Nowhere under this car to put axle stands so blocks and an extra 250mm under the front wheels makes the job easy ...

On the D2 I used axle stands but only to support the axle/s when I have wheels off ... I'm a big fella but still plenty of room under the D2 for me to slide under (use a large sheet of cardboard that wraps around the brushcutter boxes we get delivered - doesn't matter how much stuff hits the deck as you slide the cardboard out from under and dispose of if it's too grotty/oily).

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That's why have those tilting alignment ramps....

124" wheelbase (longer than a big old chev impala).... with tires blown up to the point where they might explode... maybe 1/10" inch ground clearance under the exhaust hangers. anything with ramps is no good cos you'll end up beached.... you can't get 2post hoist legs under them. But you can winch them up a constant climb without them bellying out. so the old alignment ramps above are worth there weight in gold

seeya,
Shane L.

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