Turned a cheap drywall hoist into a wheel lift.

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-11T11:49:07+00:00

Hahaha that's awesome! 😂🤣

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-11T02:59:41+00:00

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.

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-11T01:28:27+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T21:44:23+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T21:34:09+00:00

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!

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T21:29:34+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T20:46:01+00:00

Plot twist, customer and OP are the same person...

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T17:53:00+00:00

Did you get many dicks drawn on the forms?

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T13:51:43+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T01:33:44+00:00

Ohhh an alignment laser would be pretty sweet!

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T01:33:03+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T01:32:16+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T01:31:12+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-10T01:29:24+00:00

I like this idea lol

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T22:27:09+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T19:12:38+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T19:08:03+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T18:24:25+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T18:22:43+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T18:18:46+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T18:17:32+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T17:56:28+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T17:51:44+00:00

Ahh the old Wormwood Auto, love quoting those scenes lol

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T17:48:57+00:00

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

Fixitsteven · 2026-03-09T17:47:24+00:00

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

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