Recent content by EVOLVO

Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated! :thumbup: The lift is still working great, no issues at all. I don't put cars on it very often, just the occasional oil change or brake job.

Re: Post your cat here Our cats do that, too! It's the "that was a good dump" dance!

Re: Post your cat here Here's Bruno after the wife took the cake out of the oven! I played a trick on Fiona!!

I did bring it up about a foot off the ground and using the materials rack on the truck rocked it from side to side and fore and aft until the whole rack was swaying. That's the reason I stopped rocking it, it didn't fail. I've only done the two arms on one side, so after all my best attempts to...

Your invited to the christening, bring your own hardhat!

For all you naysayers

Have not put my truck on it yet, will do soon. All areas to be welded have been thoroughly prepped. I love my avatar! :lol_hitti

One won't be enough!

You did miss something, I'm taller than the arms when they're in the full up position. For all you naysayers, 86turbodiesel has kindly offered to do an analysis on this mod. I sent him some dimensions last night, I'm patiently waiting for his reply. I'll let you all know what he says as soon...

The arms will be stored in the upright position and tied together with a piece of line. This will prevent an accidental drop. Although if you look at the pic of the arm in the upright position it is way over center and takes a bit of effort to lower it to working position.

Stingry, If you agree that the bar will keep this mod from failing than I have gained exactly what I wanted. An easy way to get the arms out of my way and not have to worry about taking up more room in my small shop figuring out where to store them.

OK, you got me on your four bolts in shear statement. I always thought that if you had one bolt with a shear capacity of, say 75,000 psi than four bolts working in conjunction would give you 300,000 psi of shear. I'm probably wrong about that. Don't forget that there are four arms that will be...

Back in 2007 I had an accident at work which pinched the nerves running down the right side of my body and required me to have a cervical fusion of my neck. C4-5-6 have a titanium plate screwed in place. Because of this I drag my right foot and tripping is a constant issue for me and I fall a...

My hot rod weighs #3000, my 1937 Austin 7 weighs #850. I'm willing to roll the dice, but after I complete the other 3 arms and test it out if you don't hear from me you'll know I rolled snake eyes! :lol_hitti

They're pretty damn heavy so taking them on and off every time would leave me too tired to do any more work. With the plate I can just hit the bolts with my rattle gun, ezpz. With the ability to raise them to a comfortable height I can use leverage to easily flip them up out of the way. Next?