JDmac72chrgr
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Had 1 for my Cordoba!!
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Motown Missile at the old Bison Dragway in the mid to late 1970s.
Worked on a bunch of those... And assorted other styles of in ground lifts...
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Me too, the back cradled the rear housing and the front you slid to the right wheelbase under the a-arms. And that place looked like our shop even the drain down the middle
Yup.. And then the seals would leak and the system would get air in it... Go to raise the car & it would hesitate then slam the car up so violently that the car would jump off the lift & hopefully settle back into the cradle without falling off..... Scary... But I saw it happen at quite a few shops....
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I remember having a hearse on one. It was so heavy you had to lift the front, then the rear, then the front and so on and then wait for the compressor to catch up and go a little more.
First day on the job at one shop, the boss had a two gallon bucket on the "wish bone" for the drain oil. He was on the front side, I was on the opposite side greasing the joints and I knocked that bucket of hot drain oil off the lift and all over him. He just turned around and got some rags off the work bench. Then went into the bathroom to wash up and change his uniform. He came back out and continued working. Never said a word to me. I felt about two feet tall. If he would have just cussed me out I would have felt better. I worked there for about three years. Fun days!
First day on the job at one shop, the boss had a two gallon bucket on the "wish bone" for the drain oil. He was on the front side, I was on the opposite side greasing the joints and I knocked that bucket of hot drain oil off the lift and all over him. He just turned around and got some rags off the work bench. Then went into the bathroom to wash up and change his uniform. He came back out and continued working. Never said a word to me. I felt about two feet tall. If he would have just cussed me out I would have felt better. I worked there for about three years. Fun days!
Yup, as Ceedawg explained the rear post is a U shaped cradle that held the third member... The front cylinder/post was in an open pit covered by steel plates, The post was mounted on rollers & could be slid forward & rearward to match the wheel base of the vehicle & the arms slid in & out so you could capture the lower control arms...
They work pretty well on straight axles but A arm suspensions didn't work quite as well... Then came front wheel drive & those lifts had nothing in the rear to cradle..
Ceedawg
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One nite a car was left up, next morning the back had dropped and car was holding on to one support of the front, big careful deal to get that down without damage. Lifts had locks but it didn’t or wasn’t caught right. If I had to leave one up I put screw stands under each lift.
Ceedawg
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“Then came front wheel drive & those lifts had nothing in the rear to cradle..“
Never got that far, Shop was sold and then converted into a big Doctors complex. How many of you guys worked in the pits under a car at the service station? Had a ramp lift on one side and the ‘pit’ on the other.
Never got that far, Shop was sold and then converted into a big Doctors complex. How many of you guys worked in the pits under a car at the service station? Had a ramp lift on one side and the ‘pit’ on the other.
Our firehouse (built in 1997) has a service pit.
We had lifts in the service garage I worked at in the early '80s. One was a 2 post and the other was a single post drive on rack.
We had lifts in the service garage I worked at in the early '80s. One was a 2 post and the other was a single post drive on rack.
I worked in one, a fairly well known shop here in town was still using an open pit till they closed up around 2010...
Many here have heard of Rettig Bros... And the guy who worked in the pit? Steve Wann...
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A friend of mine had a pair of 69 cougar eliminators in high school.
The yellow on is 428 4speed ram air.
The blue one was a 351 auto.
Still has the yellow one
The yellow on is 428 4speed ram air.
The blue one was a 351 auto.
Still has the yellow one
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My older brother's first and only MOPAR, a 1968 Charger. We were raised as Chevy guys. He bought it in September 1968 after coming home from the Army. I got to drive the car one time. The guy in the blue shirt is one of my brother's buddies. Now I have a 69 Charger and a 69 Road Runner. Still like the old chevy's though. in 1969, in Cleveland, I street raced against a 440 MOPAR (I could only see the "440" emblem on the hood, so I don't know what it was, maybe a GTX). I had a 57 Chevy with a 301, 12 1/2 to 1 compression, 12/18 cam and a Holley carb. We stayed even as long as we kept our gas pedals to the floor. Great memories.
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Sorry. Didn’t get the text in. My first mopar. 75 dodge tradesman 200. Bought from mr. Norms as a bare bones van to customize
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