polara71
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First Drive in 32 years.
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Evertything new from bolts to springs. New sitting off the car they look like they should go on a 3/4 ton Ram.
commando1
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I seriously admire you guys that do all this stuff without a lift.
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I have had a lift on the short list forever and it keeps getting bumped down the list, because of money going into the cars. It is now probably another 2 year out now. Four months ago I was ready to order one and then I found my 300. The rest is history.
I'm lucky to have the use of the Automotive Shop on the Proving Ground. Sure made putting those %^^&&* bumpers on a couple of weeks ago.
polara71
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I was so close....
commando1
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to what?
Don't be so damn cryptic all the time.
Don't be so damn cryptic all the time.
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Close to having a lift, if economy just held up a little longer. Don't ask me why I remember that, I don't know it myself.
To do a lift right, you have to build the garage/house around the lift demensions. Stan, isn't that what you did? Design the garage/house first to have plenty of room for the lift installation?
commando1
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Don't laugh. That's exactly what I did.
I drew a rectangle, located the garage and work shop, and went from there. Seriously.
Gotta have priorities...
I had X amount of sq. footage to work with and I wasn't going to say "I wish I had..." down the road. Even the contractor said to me when I was excrutiatingly figuring ceiling height: "Stan, this is your last chance in life to do it right".
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I had my house built too. I would of done things a lot differently looking in the rear view mirror. I would of built a Rancher with a 2-3 car garage. I retired when I was 41....never owned a house and didn't know how much house I could afford after the Army. Transition training from the Army to civilian life was terrible in the 90's.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
Thank you.... Someone wad paying attention
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
You dont have to build the house around the lift, sometimes you get lucky and it fits
commando1
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I wasn't leaving anything to luck thank you very much. Used all of mine up many years ago.
70NPORT
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one day I'll have a lift too, like the rest of you lucky dogs.
polara71
Old Man with a Hat
I was speaking of me, its not all about you Stan
commando1
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So you lucked out.
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polara71
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I have a habit of doing that but that was the point sometimes it happens ............. moving on now
Really? That's seriously taking the easy way out. I bought my lift after I moved into the house I bought and it took two of us most of the day and three of us (and a floor jack) to do the last hour or so of the assembly. We assembled it the way the lift was intended to be installed, but that put the pump/reservoir at the left front of the lift, at the back of the garage and I wanted it near the door opening. So we emptied out the rest of the garage and rotated the lift 180° inside the garage. It "JUST" cleared.
Got my lift from Complete Hydraulics in Franklin Indiana. Comes as a 2'x3' by the length of the lift, kit that fits on a car trailer like nothing. IIRC, they're still $2k or less, rated at 8000 pounds and come with casters, jack trays, drip trays and all the goodies. Runs on 110 or 220 and uses 2 gallons of Dexron. Couldn't be simpler.
commando1
Old Man with a Hat
Yes it was. Seriously...
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