[SANDOVAL]

I wanted to share some new pics taken in my garage this weekend. Friday I went and picked up a low rise lift in need of some TLC. My PCar buddy Tim W. and I went on Friday with a Uhaul trailor and picked it up. The guy put it on with a fork lift we got it off using egyptian pyramid tricks. A bit of scrubbing, Paint, New rubber pads and some fluid the lift is in the garage. Saturday was filled with a few set backs starting with the new hose breaking at the fitting. Luckily we found a Tractor shop that had the tools to make me a new hose. Later in the day the pump fell over when we moving the lift. The lever to let the lift down broken off. (See the replacement crest lever... MUCH Cooler) All in all the project was a ton of fun. I am so excited to have a lift it is going to come in handy! I found the lift on Craigs list for $400 it turned out to be a great deal.

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[tom968]

That's one nice garage!

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[SILVY968]

Everything is totaly awesome! Do you know who is the manufacturer?

Looks very clean.

Being a low rise lift, can you get underneath to work?

Brian

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[SANDOVAL]

It's a "Rotary" brand lift, Before my rehab work it was red and used at Discount tire. It lifts to 30" which is a pretty usable height. My TT is pretty low but the lift is only 4" at the top. I had no problems driving up and over.



Here is another brand low rise lift similar in design.

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[SILVY968]

I have been lusting over a mid rise lift that I saw at SEMA. It is made by DIRECT LIFT, model PRO-6MA.

5" tall with 52" max height, capacity 6,000#.

Dual cylinders, 13 positions. weight 999#, price $ 1095

Going to have to wait...maybe I should launch Craig's list!!!

Brian

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[Darth Vadar]

I've been looking at the same mid rise lift. There is a dealer in Franklin, IN (not that far from me) and I was thinking of having him load it on my car hauler, and I would have to slide it off when I got it home (garden tractor?) Then set it up and it is supposed to be moveable with the hydraulic unit as a handle...



But, up til now, I have been using two aluminum racing jacks...get the front (or rear) up and slip a set of ramps under the tires perpendicular to the car, and then move to the other end and do the same...



Gives me about twenty inches of clearance under there, and a very stable platform, plus it's all clear space...super easy to drop the entire exhaust system (but don't forget how heavy those pipes are!!!) And very inexpensive. I have had the ramps for 20 years, and the jacks were $125 each and very easy to move around, plus low enough to get under our cars, which can be an issue!



So, until an extra $1,000.00 pops up in the budget.... keep the jacks!

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[Bob Kovacs]

Beautiful garage, Eric! I'd love to have a garage that tidy someday.



I lusted after a lift of some sort for many years, always one of the $2,000-3,500 full lifts. I never had the space for that and the cost was always daunting. One day, my wife suggested I look at a Kwiklift and told me that if I wanted it, it would be my birthday present. I looked and decided I could do without a lift no longer. I've had a Kwiklift for around three years and use it all the time. It is not the perfect lift but it works great for me. I can easily get under a car and scoot pretty much anywhere on a creeper. I can easily jack up a corner and remove the tire, and standing on the Kwiklift is safe and easy. I get my 968 on the Kwiklift with no scraping. (My neighbor's 2001 Corvette scraped the flexible air dam, however.) I'm in the garage and under the Kwiklift almost every weekend.



The base price of a Kwiklift starts at $1,050 and you can get more info at http://www.kwiklift.com/features-all.htm. Shipping is extra and will probably be $150-200. The company claims that one person can set it up but I find it took two people to do it comfortably. Once assembled, it's a one-person operation. I use my floor jack to jack it up -- you will need a decent floor jack to use the Kwiklift.



--Bob

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[flash]

now that i have my new garage all but done (i'll post pics soon) i am back to wrestling with this decision again - once again though, i don't really have the vertical room for a full lift, so i am looking at these short ones - decisions decisions- gott do something though - very tired of jackstands



my other problem is the ride height of the car and clearance on the lift



eric - how high is the lift, and what is your front lip height on the car? what kind of clearance do you have?

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[Anchorman]

Dig a pit.

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[flash]

lol - haven't i dug a deep enough hole just by buying this house? or should i just keep going now that i'm in this far?

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[Anchorman]

I'll stay away from the house issue, but a phrase I started using when we were doing our daughter's wedding (and I had to continually justify to myself the massive budget overruns) is "In the greater scheme of things..." Or, "in for a penny, in for a pound."

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[SANDOVAL]

My car clears the ramp without contact wih the lift. The lift goes up to 29" at the highest locking point.



Ground to lip: 5"

Tire to front lip 3'

Ramp 13" long x 4" high

Lift ramp to ramp 81"

Center of lift 53" x13"



If your looking for a new lift ASE Deals has really good pricing. http://www.asedeals.com/lifts2.html



The pit lift is also a great option since it uses seperate hydraulic pistons to raise the vehicle. it eliminates the center braces.

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[csc71]

I think it would be cooler if it also turned the car around, like Batman has.



Very cool!

Not sure where you live, but MAN that is a nice car.

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[KMR968Turbo]

I noticed that you have the rubber tiles in the garage. I was thinking of using them on the floor of my race car trailer. How do you like them? Any issues?

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[flash]

i had those same tiles in my previous garage - in fact, eric is where i got the idea



they are plastic and not rubber



upside - beautiful - easy to clean - impervious to any chemical i dumped on it - easy to install - relatively inexpensive - available at costco (MotoFloor)



downside - scratches fairly easily if you aren't careful - dents far too easily to put a floorjack or a jackstand on it without first laying down a slab of sheetmetal (.090" aluminum worked fine) - actually dangerous if you don't do that - wobbly



would be great for a trailer if you aren't working under the car in there



hope that helps

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[bob blackwell]

Good job Eric! That is going to be very useful to have right in your own garage. I am still going out to the Air force Base and using the lift at the auto Hobby shop. By the way, do you have enough light in there? Good luck, Bob Blackwell.

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[Mark]

[quote name='bob blackwell' post='28850' date='Dec 8 2006, 03:58 PM']By the way, do you have enough light in there?[/quote]



<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> My thoughts exactly.

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[SANDOVAL]

thanks guys... Floor I love it. Easy to keep clean. looks stunning. But it does gouge if you are not cautious. You need special jack stands (Check out AC stands on Pelicanparts.com) they have round plates on the bottom. No complaints on the flooring it really makes the garage pop.



Lights... The city of Denver flickers when they are turned on I think I have 30 or so Halogen spot/flood lights. The lift is getting it's own 20AMP circuit in the near future. I am also run 20AMP's for the Air compressor and Shop Vac.

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