This is a topic that comes up fairly regularly on here, and I've found some ideas on this forum that look good.
I've taken some inspiration from this:
Plus this thread, both from OP's design with the pneumatic lift, and also the idea of using 4x little motorcycle lifts under each wheel:
The first thing to state: my garage has a pit. It's deep enough to sit in under the car. Jacking the vehicle and using regular axle stands is fine, and I've been working on cars this way for many years. However, I've a winter project coming up and it would be nice to get more height and once it's up higher, work on the car all winter.
I think what I'd like to be able to do, is lift the car from under the wheels somehow, and then just use tall axle stands, as it's always a pain finding ways to jack vehicles elsewhere to use the stands on the reinforced jacking points near the ends of the sills. Easily getting the vehicle onto a set of these would be great: https://www.sgs-engineering.com/js3-axle-stands
I had in mind potentially a variation of what's in the youtube video, where after lifting it an initial stage with a trolley jack, I could get a decently tall bottle jack underneath. Mainly because one side will be close enough to the wall that using a trolley jack on the sill is already a pain and has to come in at a steep angle. So, driving onto wheel stands that then lift with a bottle jack and can be continuously chocked higher with wooden blocks seems like it would work.
I consider all of this, and then look again at the motorcycle jacks under each wheel- would be easy enough to do that and then drop it onto stands, if they were tall enough.
I also then go full circle and think that I should just get a midrise scissor lift given that I've been messing with cars my whole life and probably will for the rest of it!
Any thoughts on a simple system for getting a vehicle onto taller axle stands like that?
I'll post some pictures of the space in the coming days.
I've taken some inspiration from this:
Plus this thread, both from OP's design with the pneumatic lift, and also the idea of using 4x little motorcycle lifts under each wheel:
Getting my new car project soon i hope and planning all things i need. One is due to not being in best fettle myself is to make it easier to work on it. 2 & 4 post lifts are to big as i only have a 24` x 12` garage, them portable Clarke ones.
Scissor are no good either as you have little access to underneath the car.
Anyway, been through all sorts of ways to lift the car atleast 100cm and though of seeing about these i thought of.
This is just an idea and in progress so burrrr with
It is also unfinished a sit needs to be braced up and beafed up.
Its made of
lower legs are 45mm x...
Scissor are no good either as you have little access to underneath the car.
Anyway, been through all sorts of ways to lift the car atleast 100cm and though of seeing about these i thought of.
This is just an idea and in progress so burrrr with
It is also unfinished a sit needs to be braced up and beafed up.Its made of
lower legs are 45mm x...
The first thing to state: my garage has a pit. It's deep enough to sit in under the car. Jacking the vehicle and using regular axle stands is fine, and I've been working on cars this way for many years. However, I've a winter project coming up and it would be nice to get more height and once it's up higher, work on the car all winter.
I think what I'd like to be able to do, is lift the car from under the wheels somehow, and then just use tall axle stands, as it's always a pain finding ways to jack vehicles elsewhere to use the stands on the reinforced jacking points near the ends of the sills. Easily getting the vehicle onto a set of these would be great: https://www.sgs-engineering.com/js3-axle-stands
I had in mind potentially a variation of what's in the youtube video, where after lifting it an initial stage with a trolley jack, I could get a decently tall bottle jack underneath. Mainly because one side will be close enough to the wall that using a trolley jack on the sill is already a pain and has to come in at a steep angle. So, driving onto wheel stands that then lift with a bottle jack and can be continuously chocked higher with wooden blocks seems like it would work.
I consider all of this, and then look again at the motorcycle jacks under each wheel- would be easy enough to do that and then drop it onto stands, if they were tall enough.
I also then go full circle and think that I should just get a midrise scissor lift given that I've been messing with cars my whole life and probably will for the rest of it!
Any thoughts on a simple system for getting a vehicle onto taller axle stands like that?
I'll post some pictures of the space in the coming days.
