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Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?
mouser:
I might try to build a set of 4 wheel cribes, as described here: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/wiki/wood-cribbing-block-diy-for-raising-the-car-in-addition-to-jack-stands/
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I might try to build a set of 4 wheel cribes, as described here: http://www.myturbodiesel.com/wiki/wood-cribbing-block-diy-for-raising-the-car-in-addition-to-jack-stands/
-mouser (March 09, 2015, 09:04 PM)
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that wood work but why bother?
[url=http://www.walmart.com/ip/Torin-Jacks-3-Ton-Jack-Stand-Pair/14560047] costs significantly less, takes up 1/4 of the space to store, and is guaranteed to work
mouser:
Well, if I only needed to lift one side at a time, I think I would just buy some ramps.. $50 to lift one side 6 inches is within my budget and seems safer than jack stands.
But.. my problem is that there is some work that I'd like to do which could really benefit from lots of room under the car for a prolonged period (scraping rust and then painting with rust encapsulator).. and I would not feel comfortable being under the car with the entire care raised up on 4 jack stands.
Shades:
My mother drove for a taxi company when I was a young kid and I spent quite some time in his garage and houses. The guy did all the maintenance himself...or delegated to his sons. His garage had a hole in the floor where an adult could stand in. It was all tiled up, had stairs for easy entrance, room for tool storage on decent height. All that was left was to drive the car over the hole, leaving the bottom exposed for any kind of job you require. Very safe for when you need to work under a car.
mouser:
I would love to have such a pit -- i don't understand why all neighborhoods don't have one somewhere that people could use.
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