Ashish

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Well, I am still in school and my dad has been a mechanic for 20 years, so he obviously has his own shop with tools, lift, etc. So I do my own wrenching.
This is only because pops has a shop for me.

So I wanted to know those of you that do your own work, how do you do it?

Do you have a shop, do you do all the work at your house? If so does your house garage have a lift and all the goodies.

Just wanted to get ideas for the future.

firebird5134

I do all my wrench work except for the big stuff like mounting tires and alignments. I just have a floor jack, 4 jack stands, a large compressor, a set of Snap On tools and some air tools. Has gotten me by really well.

ZFan88

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I have a house I rent with 2 roommates. So when I have to work on the car I pull one out. I have a set of jackstands, a jack, and started with a tool set from Wal-Mart. Just bought tools as needed when doing different jobs. I do my own research from sites like this for car-specific jobs and teach myself. I'm the only LT1 owner around that I know of

MrDude_1

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ive done it in the dirt "driveway" under the shade of a tree.
ive done it in a single car garage that wouldnt even let both doors open (you had to part to the side so you could get out)
ive done it in a apartment parkinglot
ive done it in a carport at a friends house 30+miles away (after being banned from the aforementioned apartment parkinglot)

and now.. finally.. after doing it in crap places all my life..... i have a nice large 2 car garage to work in. i drove my car in there last thursday.


so far, i havent touched it since. LOL.

ZFan88

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Been there too ^^ lol. My garage now feels like a mechanics shop

Ericbigmac83

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Out in the driveway, I got my toolchest in my room, makes a nice tv stand.

uno

driveway, gravels,parking lot, flat grassy spot(did a motor swap in the grass one time with all hand tools). No power tools for me unfortunately. Hopefully one day I'll have a garage.

Ashish

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I have been so spoiled with a lift. I keep thinking how awesome it would be to have a lift in a house garage. But then again. Most house garages the ceiling is not high enough to do that.

y2k_ta

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Car-and-a-half garage, a floor jack, and four jackstands.

thingthatgoes

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The best spot I had is when my brothers and I ran a beer distributor. I had huge space in the back, inside 24/7 and used the forklift when I wanted more height than my jackstands.
Now I do alot of work right on the street. Nothing major though.

JohnnyC

I used to live in a crappy apartment, so I had to do alot of work in the parking lot. Anyone that has had to do this can tell you that it is not fun. I would battle freezing conditions, rain, darkness-not fun. Sometimes I would go to a friends house to use thier garage, but this wasn't always available if the car wouldn't run. Now I have my own house and two car garage, so I never take it for granted. I encourage everyone that has a garage to let the less-fortunate people out there use it when they need a place to work. It always meant a lot to me...

Ashish

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How do you all do jobs like header install, transmission drops, rear-end installs. While being on the ground?

AutomagicLS1

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I seen a friend a couple years ago put a cam in a LS1 at an apartment complex right in front of the office at the apartments. Had extension cords running outside for compressor and everything. It was hilarious. Gotta do what you gotta do

Ashish

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uno

Jackstands on top of cinder blocks.

Ashish

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dare I ask, how you jacked the car up that high.

ZFan88

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Jackstands for majority of the work. When headers went in from bottom I used a large floor jack and jacked up from the sway bar almost all the way. I think that's what I did

ls1_doc

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Hey you are right in my neighborhood. I have my own shop to work in as well. Two types of lifts and all the snap on tools you can imagine. I am very spoiled as far as this goes.

ZFan88

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Check PMs

uno

First jack it up relativly high by a control arm etc, then a 4x4 on top of the other jack . i know not safe but i had no other choice at the time.

edit: btw this is on the imports i work on. I actually take the z places to have the work done usually because of my lack of garage/lift.