Bought a 2 post lift
 

I bought an old used 2 post lift to work on my diesels! $450, very heavy duty old american made, looks to be 70s or 80s vintage.

Now I just need to buy some beer so I can get some volunteers to help set it up!

Just make sure your slab is thick enough to anchor it to. Minimum is 4" and most like 6". Most light slabs aren't that thick.

You lucky dog! If you lived in Austin, I'd be there to help :D

Does you garage have high ceilings?

that is awesome, and a sweet workspace too.:D

I had the 2 post in mind when i built the garage. I put in scissor trusses that give you a cathedral ceiling. i am 12' 3" at peak, and 9' 6" at the sides.

The floor is 5" thick 6000psi concrete with wire reinforsement.

I'd love to have one, and am trying to talk my mom instl spending $2000 on one, it'll increase the value of the house...

Call me paranoid, but on something of that age, and second-hand, I'd invest in 3 or 4 railway sleepers :)

Just in case.....

A professional lift won't really increase the value of a home, it's too much of a niche thing.

If you can get your mom to install a lift, you've got an amazing mom.

I'm sure you will suddenly have lots of friends that just happen to be at your house when they need to work under thier cars:D

Is this gonna be......
 

Your contribution to the tool loaner program for forum members:clap: :clap: ?
And how do I get on the waiting list?

Regards

Run-Em
1983 300SD - aka- SPARKY THE DIESEL :silly:

My mom disliked my fascination with old jalopies in high school, until I used my tools to fix the dryer, the kitchen sink, the lawnmower, the garage door opener....

A mom that installs a lift.... well that's some kind of super-mom, and/or smart enough to know that it will keep a kid at home more often than hangig out with the punks down the street.

You just did what I have in mind to do... unfortunately, I can't do it where I live now. Ceiling not tall enough. Plus, don't know where to find them yet. Next house will either have to have a tall garage or a tall pole barn. Congrats
!!!

I'm envious. I hope to get a lift someday....First I need a garage though :D

Just curious but what is a railway sleeper?

Kevin
1979 240D manual
1984 190D manual

Brit for crosstie. http://www.tietechinternational.com/images/tracks1.jpg

I thought I was the only paranoid person on this site with regards to being crushed under a car. Being claustrophobic doesn't help either. I've seriously considered buying some ties, stacking them and building casters and adding a draw bar to move them around. Usually I just stack two spare tires and place them in the middle of the car.

Kevin
1979 240D manual
1984 190D manual

paranoid
 

Talk to me about being paranoid after you've put a G-wagen up on a lift. It's a nightmare. Nice garage man!

Paranoid, NAW! Not if things are really out to getcha!
 

I was on my back working under my 56 Chevy Nomad one time. Car was on a slope. Nose was uphill and on ramps with BIG chocks behind rear wheels. Well, sir, the ramps broke, dislodging the chocks. So the car rolls downhill and up onto the right side of my chest. I only had one arm/hand free and pulled the car uphill and off of me THREE times (amazin what some excitement and a lil adrealin will do fer ya). It kept rolling downhill and up onto me each time I got out of breath and tired....was screamin fer help just a little. My Mom-In-Law heard me scream, and jumped into the car, fired it up, and drove that sucker offa me--draggin me a little. Anyhow, car was now off of me, I crawled out from under, rolled onto my stomach and proceeded to do a push up to get up.......that is when she let it roll back downhill and stopped it on my right hand. Broke one finger and squished three fingers out of place. Ouch!

So in the emergency room, the staff was admiring what a pretty tire print (water sipes and all) I had on my skin right above my liver--even thru a T-shirt. Then doc put the three fingers back in place. Felt so good I was ready to go home. But, NOOOOO! Doc then informed me that finger was broken and he'd have to pin the bones together. So he puts this apparatus to hang my hand from the finger on (looked like the little woven Chinese thumb cuffs we used to play with as kids). Doc was teaching an intern and runnin off at the mouth stead of payin attention to th job at hand and dropped the darn set-up. Luck was with me, as I saw it fall, and went down to the floor with it. It would have given me a compound on the fracture had I not done so. So, I proceed to tell doc how #$^%&%^&#EW$@W$ lucky HE was that I was watchin, and that by GOD he better pay attention or I'd stuff him under that car. So he just puts the squeeze on the adjustment on the i.v. morphine, shoots a little more lidocaine in the finger, and a good time was had by all. NEXT round is on me, barkeep!!

So far in this old life I've been shot in the back, stabbed thru one calf to the bone, cut, had the car parked on my chest, rolled a VW four times, got off of a motorcycle at the wrong time (had a front tire blow out at about a buck-thirty...resultin in a separated shoulder and lost about 1/3 of my skin in just a few seconds), had 38 kidney stones (those suckers hurt - when they cut off your water -- last stone did that causing me to spasm so bad that I pulled two vertabrae out of place...crushing the disc and squishing the left sciatic nerve), had my heart cut out-fixed and stuffed back into my chest, then had the second heart attack.

So sometimes, "it" really is out to get you. So I asked God --why,why, why me Lord. And He replied, "Well, Max, I just don't know, but there has always been something about you that just chaps my ass!"

All of the above is TRUE, cept fer th last paragraph, I just say that lil joke I made up. If I can laugh at it on a really down day, I figure I'll make it.

So y'all be carefull out there. Ya just might not be paranoid and somethin IS out to getcha!

Regards

Run-Em (Max)
1983 300SD-aka- SPARKY THE DIESEL :silly: