Up ya go Rambler.
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Some under car pictures, of the Rambler. We are hope fully gunna try to put tail pipes on. If we can’t do it we will take it to a shop. We did the front pipes, while laying on the door under the car. Used a wire and bent the wire to shape we needed, then went to the muffler shop and got the pipe bent the same as the wire. Worked good. Hoist will make it much easier to do tailpipes.
Noel
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Nice having a hoist I'm sure.
I had a shop replace gas tank in my honeys car recently. Had a bad feeling about doing it myself. Shop took 3 1/2 hours and he had to get his boy to help him and that was on a hoist. I'd have been writhing around under car on the floor
I had a shop replace gas tank in my honeys car recently. Had a bad feeling about doing it myself. Shop took 3 1/2 hours and he had to get his boy to help him and that was on a hoist. I'd have been writhing around under car on the floor
Where I used to work we had Benwil 2 post hoist, By state law you were supposed to use jack stands when working under the hoist.
But employes got lazy or for some other reason didn't always set them in place. Management also got lax on enforceing the rule too
I had been sent off to do a dealer job so was not there to see a Olds Aroara fall on a worker and crush him.
Other workers near by said the sound and the mess was not pretty.
Buy or make the jack stands and use them. Those small rubber pads don't always hold good on the floor pinch welds or slippery (or rusty) frames.
Al
But employes got lazy or for some other reason didn't always set them in place. Management also got lax on enforceing the rule too
I had been sent off to do a dealer job so was not there to see a Olds Aroara fall on a worker and crush him.
Other workers near by said the sound and the mess was not pretty.
Buy or make the jack stands and use them. Those small rubber pads don't always hold good on the floor pinch welds or slippery (or rusty) frames.
Al
Not a pretty sight to walk up to.
Looking at those two post hoists I can't figure out how they can be safe. Put a pickup up on one and you have a ton of weight hanging off one side and almost no weight on the other side and the foot print of the posts is very small. They must have something really heavy duty anchoring them to the ground.
Hold a 5 gallons of water out in front you at arms length and you get the idea.
A hoist sure would be handy though and the older I get the more I'd like to have one.
Ours at work were anchored with 4 inch blolt on four corners of the post 12 inches deep in concrete. then there were 4 arms that when 2 in the front and two to the rear anchored the same way.
We were taught to lift the car about 3 or 4 feel and shake the crap out of it themn finish lifting it and set the jack stands in place. Our Jack stands were tri post with a adjustable center screw.
Simular to this one but ours were made with 1/12 pipe, heavy but high capisity.
Al
We were taught to lift the car about 3 or 4 feel and shake the crap out of it themn finish lifting it and set the jack stands in place. Our Jack stands were tri post with a adjustable center screw.
Simular to this one but ours were made with 1/12 pipe, heavy but high capisity.
Al
Well, I worked under those center post lifts for years. After time goes on you begin to think about how safe hoists are. I got out of that business and did a different job. After one of my cars fell on me in the garage at home, many years ago, just up on a jack and blocks, I began to think, ya not a good thing to do. And over the years ya hear of people getting killed in their yards, while the family watches. As I got older and not wiser, my son started workin at a ford dealership. Well all hoist are two post. Allways worrying about my son. And when I went in to visit, I was very very nervous about being under the hoist. So when son wanted to put a hoist in , I tryed to get him to use a four post. Well he had his argument about four post and two post. So he won. I don’t like being under anything jacked up. As said, what really keeps the post in the concrete. A little heavy one way or the other, things are of balance. Any way, so far so good.
I have seen guys put a tall jack under the left front end of the vehicle and let the vehicle down to take the weight off that Front left suspension to do work on it. I stepped back a number of feet to see what happen. Nothing did.
Son and I were under the rambler today and was helping. Not good for me. Just have to get use to it a bit, again, I guess.
Noel.
And, lucky me, I didn’t really get hurt when my car fell on me, was pinned for a while, but was able to wiggle out.
I have seen guys put a tall jack under the left front end of the vehicle and let the vehicle down to take the weight off that Front left suspension to do work on it. I stepped back a number of feet to see what happen. Nothing did.
Son and I were under the rambler today and was helping. Not good for me. Just have to get use to it a bit, again, I guess.
Noel.
And, lucky me, I didn’t really get hurt when my car fell on me, was pinned for a while, but was able to wiggle out.
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