Car Lifts (for personal garage use)... Thoughts needed

[TheTorch]

Chris,
Those torsion bar cover extensions as jack points are fantastic.

[John Straub]

As I only have 8 feet to work with I use a MaxJax. The quality is just OK. It works and gets the job done. I wish I had more vertical to work with so I could stand under the car. With the car all the way up I have 2 to 3 inches of clearance.

Chris, can you sit under the car on a rolling stool without being bent over?

John

[Chris Pomares]

Yes. With a MaxJax I had to bend my neck maybe two inches with the roller stool I had at that time. If I had one just a tad shorter I wouldn't of even had to do that. They are a nice lift. If my shop was a little bigger I would have kept it so I could lift two cars at the same time.

[Chris Pomares]

Chris,
Those torsion bar cover extensions as jack points are fantastic.

I took the idea from a 356 I saw many years ago. I don't have to worry about the floor pan anymore. The pan on my car was pushed up by the drivers side torsion tube. I don't know if I did it or the original owner. Anyways I had it repaired. These solved the issue. I never liked using the sway bar bracket as a jack point. The cost was in design and setup. So once my machinist got going I had him make about 8 sets. The ones in on my car were the trail set. I used 2 sets on cars I'm doing for a friend, sold 3 sets and have 3 sets left I think. They are aluminum and are welded to Rebel's bushings.
Here are a couple pictures of the repair. Notice the lack of rust in the internal parts. Pure luck on my part.

[62S-R-S]

I spent many decades rolling around on the floor using one of those. I still have one. After a spinal tumor, broken hip, broken femur, broken clavicula, broken arm, several cracked ribs, open heart surgery, etc., it's nice to stand up when I work on cars.

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Always enjoy your posts, and with a small project last night, of hands and angles prohibiting path of oil into a gearbox, the setups on this thread kept flashing in my head, with the relative ease of doing various tasks. A small cubicle room under the floor could also work, but there is little doubt that the floor jack method is not a pleasant experience.

[62S-R-S]

New type mini industrial back hoes, seem able to dig out small, or even large areas, in a few hours time. Add a poured foundation, rather than block, and it might get interesting...


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