2002/Black/SS

iTrader: (3)

i have one of those huge truck jacks and i use a reguler jack to jack the car up first then i stick the truck jack underneath. all in my garage

408 z28

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we built my whole dame car "engine, tranny, and rearend" in my neighbors driveway. When we went to put the motor in i was too lazy to pull the cherry picker across the street so we hooked the motor up to my neighbors tow truck and used that to set it in the car...Now a days a do most of my work in the driveway and for the big stuff i use my bay with a nice 4 point lift at Toyota

Ell Ess Won

I live at home and turn ALL my own wrenches when it's possible. I just pull my car into the driveway out back and go to town with 2 jacks from various cars made for changing tires, 2 stands, and a cheap tool kit. lol.

JohnnyC

Ha, I remember those days of dodging the apartment patrol! I used to lie to them and tell them that I was just "checking the oil" to buy some extra time. People always looked at me like I was some kind of a white-trash loser because I didn't take my car to "the shop". The looks that I would get when I was covered in grease in my apartment parking lot were priceless...

orangefun

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I built my blazer in a dirt floored bran from the 1800's , and that was b/c my dad didn't want oil in the floor of his huge 4 car garage which was only about 100 feet from the barn. after it was painted I put it toghter in my grandpas 40x60 shop. in the garage we have about every tool you might need to work on a car , but for the tool I don't have and the things I cant work on (due to lack of experiance ) I go to my dads friend speed shop where he hepls me out. mostly now I use the 4 car garage.


our 40x60 shop is almost done.


thanks danny for all the help over the years

01formula6

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2 car gargage, floor jack, 4 jack stands, hand tools. A lift would be great, I miss being in HS and being able to use the auto shop after school.

95FbFormula

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I do it with a garage that wont fit the car and a gravel driveway. and a good set of tools and ari tools. LOL I would rather lay under my car on gravel then pay someone to work on it

01Z28MN6

Garage is where i do all my own work. Figure if there is anything that can't be done with basic hand tools. then it is to major to do anyhow.

MTN_Z

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Man and here I am thinking I'm one of the rare few that worked on my car in gravel driveways. I definitely prefer working on my own stuff.

RPM WS6

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I work in my garage. Using ramps, jacks, jack stands, TONS of hand tools, etc., etc.

I do as much as I can with all my cars. Only outsourcing when I'm not comfortable doing the job myself.

02NHRAtransAm

iTrader: (17)

yea i have done that b4 not to good on the back

Cant say that i have always had the right tool for the job ( i distinctly remember having to remove/ install a sbc water pump with an open end wrench) but i have enough to get me by on what i feel comfortable doing. I have a jack, a couple stands, and engine satnd... used to have a hoist , and lots of hand tools, and an electric impact just mainly for knocking wheels off.... the only tasks i have dealt off over the years would be interal trans work (like clutches and what not) and internal rearend... i was young and didnt wanna **** up my 12 bolt

wolfy

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been there, done that...when i lived at home we didnt have a garage so all the work was done in our two car drive way. i used to be real big into the 4 wheel drive thing so ive done some crazy work in mud up to my knees, wedged between rocks, in rain and sleet. i joined the military, and had to work in the parking lot of our townhouse quite a bit. now i own my house that has a 2 car garage, and i enjoy wrenching on ALL my own ****. ive done more clutches than i can count on one hand just this summer...my T/A is starting to pick up pace with the go-fast-goodies, my roomates race car (74 nova) is almost done, and my third gen camaro is about to go under the knife. and rumor is my father-in-laws SBC s-10 is going going to have a new owner (me) this christmas, so thats one more project...

ive got 6 jackstands, two jacks, a little piece of **** 10 gal compressor from wally world with the basic air tools, and a growing selection of hand tools, and i think i gain some sort of specialty tool on every job i do...my tool collection is growing pretty rapidly...

Ell Ess Won

im halfway through the process right now doing it in the backyard.

BA98TA

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LOL you make working on your car sound so dirty!

z28beast06

Me and a couple of my friends swapped my ls1 and transmission in my car without a lift. It was not the funnest thing in the world, but we got it done. Pictures on website in sig.

LS1Formulation

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I work on my car myself as well - do everything under the sun aside from paint and body. The one thing I will NEVER do, however, is put my car up on cinder blocks. Do you have a death wish or something? Please, build some blocks out of 4x4's or something before you get killed. Those blocks are about as good as trying to hold your car up with Jello.

Switchblade

Some of the stuff in this post is scary.

Anyways I use a floor jack and jack stands properly support my car on the driveway when I do general maintenance on my ride. For the more difficult or complex items I goto a DIY Garage that has hoists, jacks, stands, and anything that I need to work on my car an "git her done". And their rates are dirt cheap.

HeapaShifter

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This makes me feel spoiled. I work on my car at a dealership on Saturday's when they're not open. I have access to a lift and an air compressor. I couldn't imagine pulling a transmission on a gravel driveway.

2000LS1TA

iTrader: (26)

I work on my own car. I have a double car garage under my house where she sleeps, a 40x40 shop with all the goodies minus a lift, and a 30x30 garage where she spends the winter

steveb1

Amen... Sometimes you just have to do what it takes to keep your car on the road. I've even fixed my car on the side of the road right where it broke.