[prj24149]

Can anyone recommend some reasonably priced car ramps that will fit under the 968. I would like to get all four wheels up on ramps. Obviously 2 ramps can be taller and go in front or behind the car but the other 2 will have to fit under the car.

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[gryphon]

I'm anxious to read some comments. I had nothing but trouble in my youth getting cars onto ramps without them sliding away.



Tom

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[bob blackwell]

Paul, I use two ramps from an auto accessory store (PEP Boys, Auto Zone, etc) which are made of metal with two hard plastic helper ramps to get the car up on the metal ramps. The nose is low enough that the metal ramps alone will not work. After the front is up on the ramps you can raise the rear with a floor jack and slide some additional ramps under the back wheels. Best of all would be to find a friend with a lift in his garage. Good luck, Bob Blackwell.

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[jpk]

I made up a set of wooden blocks that I can use to support the car. I made four of them for $16. I use the floor jack to lift the car on one side (if I lift at the rear jack point, it'll lift both the front and rear tires high enough) and slide the blocks under the tires, set it down on the blocks, then go around and do the same thing on the other side. it takes maybee 5 minutes total.



It gives about 9" of lift in all, which is quite enough to get under there and do halfshafts, exhaust work, torsion bars, etc... No worries about stability or the car rolling off.



The blocks are 16" long. You can make two of them from one 10 foot long 2x8. Cut six pieces at 16", then cut whats left into 4 even pieces for the end stops. A little gorilla glue, a few screws, and you're in buisness.





   

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[rhudeboye]

[quote name='jpk' post='38710' date='Jul 23 2007, 03:04 PM']I made up a set of wooden blocks that I can use to support the car. I made four of them for $16. I use the floor jack to lift the car on one side (if I lift at the rear jack point, it'll lift both the front and rear tires high enough) and slide the blocks under the tires, set it down on the blocks, then go around and do the same thing on the other side. it takes maybee 5 minutes total.



It gives about 9" of lift in all, which is quite enough to get under there and do halfshafts, exhaust work, torsion bars, etc... No worries about stability or the car rolling off.



The blocks are 16" long. You can make two of them from one 10 foot long 2x8. Cut six pieces at 16", then cut whats left into 4 even pieces for the end stops. A little gorilla glue, a few screws, and you're in buisness.

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HA, Ingenious!



Paint ‘em black and add a Porsche logo. Now there worth $90.00

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[Fox944]

i've tried several ramps, even when the car was @ stock ride hieght, the bottom of the bumper would scrape. Now that the front end is an inch lower & i have a Lip on it...there is no way i can get it up on any of the ramps i've tried.

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[Ryan]

Slipping ramps is no fun. None work on alll 4 wheels of the 968. If you buy a few 12' - 2x10s and use two as your base, you can cut sections to match up with your wheel base. Make the cut sections stair-stepped and nail them to the base 2x12 in the front. Pull the car on till it gets to the front steps and stop and put on the back steps. I had a couple dowels that hold the steps in place on the base. Crude but they worked.



I now have a lift, but the car is so low I still use 2x10s to drive on so I don't rub the lift. Hope this helps.

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[flash]

i'm still wrestling with this one - a lift just doesn't seem to work in my garage - everything i can find is too heavy to move around and/or too tall - my car is too low to work on most of the drive ups too - i am sick and tired of the arduous and dangerous jackstands (the concept, not the stands themselves)



the board/ramp idea might be a decent stopgap for some stuff, and i'll think about that one, but i really want all 4 wheels in the air for most stuff - i think i need to work out a portable lift design



ah - another project - oh joy

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[Darth Vadar]

Not sure I'm following the question...



I use two aluminum Race Jacks ($125 each from Sears), which fit right under the front jack points, one on each side...



Front goes UP... then place a ramp under each front tire, with the "ramp" portion pointing AWAY from the car...



Lower the car... move Jacks to the rear lift points (I like to use one of those aluminum "Locks" between the Jack head and the car)...



Rear goes UP... and place two more ramps under the rear tires, again pointing AWAY from the car. Car is held between the two sets of Ramps...



I have sometimes used a small wood "chock" in front of the Front wheels, just to keep them from trying to escape down the front ramps if I over lift at the rear...



Result is about 16 clear inches of ground clearance underneath... enough for a clutch change!



If you need access to a suspension item, just put the Jack under that corner point, lift the car off the ramp at that corner, pull the wheel off, and fit a Jack Stand under the nearest secure point on the chassis... ease the car down onto the Jack Stand. Remove the Ramp. I usually leave the jack in place as a secondary precaution against weak Jack Stands!



   

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[prj24149]

Wow, thank you all for great ideas. I think I've got it in my head now what to do to get my sway bar installed and torqued correctly.



As I used to say back home

Mahalo plenty.

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[oppositelock]

For years in my old house with two car garage I used a Kwiklift, for all my work on a few different cars, including the 968. Very handy for those with a height challanged garage. I would leave it in place and park on it and it is super quick for oil changes. kwiklift.com. I had a red one, just like the photo with the 55-57 T-bird photo.

Mitch

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[flash]

yeah - looked at that one - nice unit, but i have a a couple of problems with it in my application



my 968 is too low to drive up on it without some additional ramping



i want the center section of the car clear when it is in the air



i'm not sure she would like driving over it every day, as she parks in the 2 car section where it would have to live, and the 968 is in the 1 car section of the 3 car garage



still looking and thinking

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[unknown4u]

I made a big hole in the ground from my garage. So now I have a concreet basemant. Deep enough (1 m 85 deep, 3 meters long and 1 m wide ) to walk under the car and do all of the work!!. I installed electrics etc.



It cost me 3 days to dig and to make it. After that I had to wait four long weeks for drying the concreet.

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[RPM]

I hired four Sherpas last spring. They live in the garage (a very quiet people with fastidious personal habits). Whenever I need access to the underside of the car they just hoist it up over their heads. It's the damnest thing you ever saw - I'll try to post some pictures later.



Their current 'hoisting' record is 1 hour 37 minutes. Apparently, with Raleigh NC at virtually sea-level and the 968 fairly lightweight at 3,000 pounds, this sort of exertion is nothing for these guys. So far I have barely tapped their potential.



I am looking into franchise opportunities.

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[mpiazzola]

I bought a 2500 pound, 440 volt 3 phase electromagnet I've suspended from the roof of the garage with bungee cords. Got it at a garage sale at the NASA warehouse. At full power it levitates the napa968 about 12 inches off the slab. A few minor side effects: had to hide the power bill from the missus last month it was $600, my neighbors' lights dim when I crank that baby up, and I'm losing more hair than usual, but the view from under the car is amazing . . . .

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[rhudeboye]

Dynamite will get her up off the ground pretty high as well. Its cheap too. Just get your work done really fast.

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[RPM]

I'm so glad a few of you finally responded. I laid that (I thought) funny egg and it just sat there for a couple of days.



I started to worry that I was going to get hate mail from Nepal and wake up to parka-wearing grizzled little men with giant packs on their backs protesting outside my house.

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[mpiazzola]

Ralph, I couldn't resist. I laughed my a*& off when I read your post. I understand your concern, a few tipsy astronauts showed up at my house saying they wanted their magnet back.

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[flash]

sorry it took so long to get to this - i have been stuck trying to get my car back down out of the air from when a bunch of amateur sorcerer / harry potter fanatics showed up last week to try to solve my lift problem and didn't think it through all the way - the up side is we finally got it down - the down side is that now my dog has the ass of a chicken, and keeps dropping egg shaped poops all over the place

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[rhudeboye]

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What a great thread. can we make it a sticky and title it Example of thread gone bad?

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