Recent content by firebirdparts

I'm still young when it comes to lift arms. I guess you have to decide what kind of work you want to do. If it's maintaining a show car, I think the 4 post will win. The big advantage of the 2 post is when you do brutal stuff. Taking powertrains out, dropping the subframe, taking the cab off...

Go underneath and shorten the joist.

Sounds cheap and easy enough to me. I am lazy, so I would probably not jack the building up. Just deal with the consequences of not.

Look at how tight you're pushing, too, against the seal. The door may really have some force on it, and you don't need that.

The reaction of the spring goes through that 2 by. OP you greatly misjudge that situation. The center spring braket is under quite a large torque load. You'll have to unwind FIRST STEP.

Sounds good, yes. No pictures needed; clearly, the wall does not exist, and any person who wants to post in this thread should know immediately what the wall should look like. Under the circumstances, you don't need much stiffness over the door, but I think you need some. You could just use...

Sounds like a lot of work to me. I'd much rather just rent a trenching machine. I never operated a 4" excavator, but my expectation would be that dirt wouldn't come out of it. Wall effects don't scale anywhere in life. They are important.

I look at it all the time, but of course it's the worst option as far as cost - you are buying the land under it, and you don't really want that, or else you're leasing which around here is way too high. Not worth what the going rate is. If you include selling it later, then buying it is might...

I will just throw out here that I'll bet you can see fire blocking using an IR camera. I bought one earlier this year that plugs into the phone, not a lot of money. You can see studs in an insulated wall quite easily. We have an upper half story, upstairs you can see nails. Just from the...

You can tint the inside and slow some radiation down that way without changing the appearance outside. Not sure what's available. Most of the market is to look through. Everybody wants a film that reflects "all" the heat and you can see though it. So the films you normally see for...

'garage ready' solves the wrong problem. It doesn't stop things from freezing, it makes them freeze. On purpose. This is not a joke. Don't spend your money.

I think so too, but then of course maintaining that battery for one or two pulls a year gets old. Lot of expense either way. I am very cheap, so I just pull a battery out of some car and go do what I need to do. copper is expensive, but then at least you wouldn't have to maintain it.

High tech stuff there. I use them every day - my shop is so equipped.

I am very opinionated that retaining walls should lean. They should not be vertical. To me, that is fundamental. People simply cannot lay CMU's or bricks leaning. It can't be done. So you need to be looking for material designed for retaining walls, which means you really don't want a mason.

Yes.