I have an inspection pit in the garage. I am looking for a lifting solution to raise the vehicle whilst it is parked over the pit. This is for two reasons:
1. The pit is shorter than the vehicle, so you cannot get in unless the vehicle is not fully over the pit, which requires it to be sticking out of the garage.
2. For wheels off work, the vehicle needs to be lifted, you can get a trolley jack under the sill, but then you cannot put an axle stand under the subframe as this is over the pit. You could put an axle stand under the sill, which is what I'd like to do, however this brings me to my question, how to lift the vehicle and get an axle stand under the sill.
This type of ramp would lift at the wheel, but then the ramp would be in the way of the axle stand. Does anyone know of any similar to that but where the "ramp" part is removable? Or just the lifting platform part available for sale? as I could then lift the vehicle on the sill with a trolley jack, get the platform under the wheel, raise that further and then lower it onto an axle stand on the sill. I could of course buy something like this and cut away the ramp and then brace the platform more but I'd rather buy something out of the box and save myself the hassle if the option exists.
This would probably work well for the purpose, but seems to be quite overkill for raising a car onto axle stands, especially given the price.
I might just about be able to get the trolley jack on the tie-down loop on the inside of the wheel arch but I don't like using this as it is not intended as a jacking point, plus this would be very borderline on the edge of the pit so not very safe, even though there are thick boards over the pit this doesn't seem like a great option to me.
Any further suggestions?
1. The pit is shorter than the vehicle, so you cannot get in unless the vehicle is not fully over the pit, which requires it to be sticking out of the garage.
2. For wheels off work, the vehicle needs to be lifted, you can get a trolley jack under the sill, but then you cannot put an axle stand under the subframe as this is over the pit. You could put an axle stand under the sill, which is what I'd like to do, however this brings me to my question, how to lift the vehicle and get an axle stand under the sill.
This type of ramp would lift at the wheel, but then the ramp would be in the way of the axle stand. Does anyone know of any similar to that but where the "ramp" part is removable? Or just the lifting platform part available for sale? as I could then lift the vehicle on the sill with a trolley jack, get the platform under the wheel, raise that further and then lower it onto an axle stand on the sill. I could of course buy something like this and cut away the ramp and then brace the platform more but I'd rather buy something out of the box and save myself the hassle if the option exists.
This would probably work well for the purpose, but seems to be quite overkill for raising a car onto axle stands, especially given the price.
I might just about be able to get the trolley jack on the tie-down loop on the inside of the wheel arch but I don't like using this as it is not intended as a jacking point, plus this would be very borderline on the edge of the pit so not very safe, even though there are thick boards over the pit this doesn't seem like a great option to me.
Any further suggestions?
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