Russ and Mike did a nice job, would use them again
Not yet, I still need to sell my pile, but we will see. I’d be happy if I picked up one up this year, if not I can always be patient over winter.
I don’t plan on taking the columns off the plates, it’s placed such that I can work on a car and still leave room for my wife to park day to day. Regardless they are 304SS so I don’t see them needing too much protection
finally got the columns loosely bolted down. I still need to do a final torque on the hardware. It has been 10 days since the pour and I’m itching to put some weight on the columns, but I’m going to wait. I did hook up all the hydraulics and power unit to verify operation. Spent some time bleeding the columns, which was very easy, and they seem to be operating fine. The wait continues…in the meantime, I had my wife start parking in the garage, and it looks like the grand experiment worked because she hasn’t (yet) banged into the post with her car. I plan on adding some visual aids to help her pull in easily every day without worrying about hitting anything.
image by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr
FINALLY
one long month of waiting and we’re ready to roll. I used that time to mount the power cart and hydraulic stuff on the wall by the rear of the car. It’s close to an electrical box that I’ll be using to permanently power the unit. I also need to route the hydraulic lines over the ceiling to clean up the floor.
I got home from a weekend trip to NYC late last night and of course the first thing I did was pull the wagon in for a test. Being that it has the most suspension travel I figured it would be lowest risk for damage should something happen. Although I bled the columns multiple times unloaded, there was still a tiny bit of air once the car had been resting on hydraulics alone for a few minutes. Before heading in for the night I brought the car up to the first stop and rested it on the safety bars to sit overnight. Will probably bleed again tonight and should be all done!
image by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr
image by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr
phenomenal. :slowclap:
Nice job Norb!
rad
awesome.
side note - hope your next cars a bmw for the sake of keeping all your wall stickers 
^ lol, we will see. although I have been contemplating pulling a lot of crap off the walls to clean up the look.
I will be putting the E39 on the lift tonight, will DEFINITELY need to stack some plywood under the wheels, it’s way too low to get the pads under the body as is. The Subaru had room to spare even with the truck adapters, hah.
