Andrew can you get a second I wil buy tomorrow

 

putting it in moms driveway or the cul de sac?

 

I was thinking the backyard

 

^your kidding right...lol

 

Yes I was kidding. I would put it in my garage

 

ok just making sure...lol

how big is your garage?

 

That's awesome, Andrew. It's only a 2 hour drive from Orlando to Vero. A lift would be very helpful doing exhaust work.

 

it sure would......now i just need to own some welding equipmant and learn to weld! ........but Sean, you can come down anytime you need to.

 

Goblin,

they one took in this one lift.....but they just aquired some other ones too. this economy is really tough on auto businesses.

Of course, they also sell new lifts, too. the main lifts they sell are challenger lifts.....which are nice. They have a feature call "versametric" which allows the challenger lifts to used as either an assymetric or a symmetric lift. highly versatile.

I didn't think I was going to be able to get a "clear floor" lift to some limitations at my shop. for one, my ceiling height is 11'10". most lifts require at least 12' or more. the other concern for me is the lwidth of the lift. due to the size of the office in my shop, I have just under 12' of width for the lift. most lift can be accomodated in this, but the bay door opeing isn't center in that 12.' the Nussbaum lift I bought is only 10' wide - post to post, and it is exactly 12' high............

the width is perfect for me, but I still needed to do something about the height..........

SO, I called an architect friend of mine (who happens to be a hardcore SCCA racer) and had him come ou and take a look at the trusses. In the end, I made a a small "trayed" truss setup that raises the trusses 3.5" in 4 of the trusses but it only about 16" wide...and this lift fits up inside the 2 outer most trusses and the cross bar will fit through my new trayed trusses. sounds complicated, but it isn't. I'll have to take some pictures to better explain it.

 

thats awesome andrew, congratz

doesnt sound complicated at all, you can do a coffer truss or a three piece raised center bay truss, either set up will give you extra roof clearance

if you wanna double check the truss design, send me the .PIC file or a layout and i can double check it on my software

and run it on all the engineering test

 

Thanks Jose......I already did the truss work though. I am pretty confident in what I did. It has been a long time since I took statics at UM, but I aced the course. lol

Basically, here's what I did. the existing ceilign joists were 2X4s......so I layed another 2X4 on top of the existing joist and sandwiched the joist and the additional 2X4 with a sheet a 3/4" hardwood ply on either side of the joist. the section I removed from the joist is 12" at the center and 19" at the base (45 degree angle cuts on the ends for asthetics) the plywood sides and additional 2X4 sections were 4' long.
I through bolted the ply/2x4/ply sandwich together with 10 3/8" bolt/washers/nuts on each truss. Once everything was bolted, tightened and secured, I proceeded to cut out the old truss section of 2x4.
I ended up with just a trayed section of 3.5", but it is all that I need.
again, I'll take pics.

 

Congrats Andrew! Having a lift would be outstanding.

 

def sounds like you know what you are doing, good stuff

time for a road trip up there

 

the lift is finally ready, and should be going into the shop tomorrow morning! unfortunately, it is a few day too late. I just had to do a full brake job on my wife's Aviator usign jack stands.....realy sucked knowing that the lift was only days away from installation. my wife had run her brakes down to the backing plates, so there was no delaying it.

 

so close! what will be your first project with the lift?