[T2] OLD FART VW MECHANICS

[Deanah Alexander]

Love ti group! I am older female trying to. get a 77 bus running. I have
learned so much- thanks guys
I don't have a lift but now have some ideas

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:07 PM david raistrick <keen at icantclick.org> wrote:

> > post hydraulics. NICE! Now all my rich buddies have shops with lifts.
> Gotta
> > get mine done. I only have about $250 in it!
> > Did any of you have any reaction to my modification for tilting?
>
> DONT.
>
> I've had a car sideways on a 2 post lift.  I got lucky.
>
> for one thing, you're changing the stress dynamics in ways you don't
> expect.  the other - there really isn't a lot of room to tilt
> something as tall as a bus far enough to be useful.   and even less if
> you're high constrained.
>
> for your short ceiling - I wouldn't cut the lift.   trade it out for a
> lower profile floorplate lift (sell it, or trade it), or just run the
> columns and cross beam through the ceiling and into the attic.
> position the columns in a truss bay.   if you have to go across the
> trusses, it might be a bit harder - but I'd spend the time to place it
> rather than cutting it down.
>
> better yet, convert the area to scissor trusses.   or raise the roof.
> :)   but you could do -those- two later.
>
> there's a lot lot lot lot of good (and scary) discussion about ways to
> achieve this on the garagejournal forum btw.
>
> I spent $600 on my used 2 post.  (plus a $250 cylinder rebuild 5 years
> in, about $80 in hardware to bolt it down, another $30 in electrical
> to wire it in the way I wanted it, and another $50 or so for a harbor
> freight SDS to drill the holes for the anchors...)
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Deanah