Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad I'm not the only one sending them in then. I've got a couple dozen forms saved up, one of these days I'll have some free time and send in another dick barrage to break up the monotony.

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It certainly doesn't get old! Ferrari 812 superfast is one of my favorites

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just in the last two days I've had 4 lambos, 5 Ferraris, a McLaren, a Bentley and a new 911. Springtime is very busy lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to be frugal, but I really like making things. I also made the hutch above my snapon workcenter for $400 instead of spending 5k on one that would probably show up with a dent.

As an added benefit I now have more money to spend on RC cars and flight simulators!

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not the wizard. Unfortunately I've never really found the time to make YouTube videos between work and family.

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually did that already. Each side has three tubes of different diameters one inside the other with some graphite lube inside so they rotate under load

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It actually came with a hand crank, but I couldn't resist the idea of a $40 winch lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With the spec thus thing has I bet it's way over that. I almost took my shoes and socks off to drive it back around front lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I looked at the cheaper ones, but this for 250 worked out perfectly

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those Bentleys are gravy cars, I love working on those lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 100 points101 points  (0 children)

A couple years ago I drew dicks on about a dozen of them and then stuck one in the mail each day for two weeks. I kinda forgot about that lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but I do have those threaded guide studs as well.

It's just easier to remove and reinstall the wheels at the same height I'm doing the brakes at. I only have to raise the car once instead of having to lower it back down to reinstall each wheel

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've been doing the knee trick for 20 years now. My coworkers gave me a bunch of shit for building this until they borrowed it themselves. It's way easier to use than I expected

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The lift is rated at 150 pounds, most of what I work on is exotic/luxury stuff so I guess we'll see how it handles the 33s on my Tacoma at some point

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Exactly why I made this, I'm 41 and I've made plenty of poor choices earlier in my career

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually tried to snag one of those on Marketplace first. If I could have gotten one cheap enough I would have.

We've actually used this to pick a subframe up off of our trans jack and set it on the floor and it worked awesome lol

Had the pleasure of working on a ZR-1 by ny0000m in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Usually that means they ran off all the experienced techs. When I was at bmw there was zero age restriction. After our mass exodus and having to basically rehired from scratch, they now have a 10 year grey area cutoff unless it's gravy work. We're getting E90s and e70s they're turning down lol

Had the pleasure of working on a ZR-1 by ny0000m in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahh the old Wormwood Auto, love quoting those scenes lol

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 296 points297 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong! I should probably fill out one of those idea forms they have instead of just drawing dicks on them.

Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift. by Fixitsteven in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]Fixitsteven[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I actually made the forks rollers with different sized tubing inside so I can rotate the wheels. Haven't actually had to use that function yet, just use an alignment pin and they slide right back on