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Old Jul 5th, 2020, 07:52   #1391
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Nice idea on the ramp/lift as well. You could get a proper 4-post for not much more, secondhand 4-posts start considerably less and also mean you don't have to worry about getting the balance exactly right on the 2-post or dodgy jacking points. I've seen many near misses on 2-posts and remember an episode of Flippin' Bangers where they left the car on the 2-post lift overnight and the following morning the back end was still in the air but the front was on the deck because the jacking points had failed. It had been fine while they were working on it and when they left it, obviously the point loading overnight was enough to tear something away.

Like what you've done with the phone - much better!
I have done a little research on 4 post lifts Dave, most second hand ones have come from garages and so have 3 phase power, but this new one seems to come in both single and 3 phase versions:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHORT-4-P...QAAOSwBahU~rq7

... just under 2 grand, so nearly twice the price, but how cool it is!

Dan and I are going top look at a house in Cambridgeshire with a barn (and 2 acres, Bob would love that) in the next couple of weeks. If we buy it then I might just get my ramps (2 or 4 post I don't know, it depends on how much cash is left over after buying a house with a barn!)

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I have just done the fourth partial ATF change on the RB's BW55 auto box. I'm pleased to say that the stuff that came out (1.75l) from the third change had remained a pretty good red colour, so this should be the last change (apart from normal maintenance). I did a partial change of the PAS reservoir as well - same detail.

The RB is changing gears and steering very nicely now :-)
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I have done a little research on 4 post lifts Dave, most second hand ones have come from garages and so have 3 phase power, but this new one seems to come in both single and 3 phase versions:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHORT-4-P...QAAOSwBahU~rq7

... just under 2 grand, so nearly twice the price, but how cool it is!

Dan and I are going top look at a house in Cambridgeshire with a barn (and 2 acres, Bob would love that) in the next couple of weeks. If we buy it then I might just get my ramps (2 or 4 post I don't know, it depends on how much cash is left over after buying a house with a barn!)

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There are quite a few single phase lifts around Alan but it's possible to change the motor for a single phase one and/or obtain an inverter to covnert single phase to 3-phase for the motor.

If the barn is (or could be made) weatherproof, there's no reason why you couldn't make it a good workshop/garage and if you did it on a budget, no reason to cost a small fortune either. Also there's another option that would provide you with a sort of combination of both a 2-post lift and a 4-post. Not quite literally but might be worth a thought :

https://www.mech-mate.co.uk/products

Have the 2-post lift and fit the pit in between it. Gives you the option of lifting the car for oil/wheelchanges, brake work and so on or getting underneath to renew the exhaust system etc. Easily covered with boards to stop Bob (or anyone else) falling in and if you linked the boards with webbing stapled to them, you could make the boards a rollout/roll in feature.
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I have just done the fourth partial ATF change on the RB's BW55 auto box. I'm pleased to say that the stuff that came out (1.75l) from the third change had remained a pretty good red colour, so this should be the last change (apart from normal maintenance). I did a partial change of the PAS reservoir as well - same detail.

The RB is changing gears and steering very nicely now :-)
Next one due on both is this time next year then Alan!
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If the barn is (or could be made) weatherproof, there's no reason why you couldn't make it a good workshop/garage and if you did it on a budget, no reason to cost a small fortune either. Also there's another option that would provide you with a sort of combination of both a 2-post lift and a 4-post. Not quite literally but might be worth a thought :

https://www.mech-mate.co.uk/products

Have the 2-post lift and fit the pit in between it. Gives you the option of lifting the car for oil/wheelchanges, brake work and so on or getting underneath to renew the exhaust system etc. Easily covered with boards to stop Bob (or anyone else) falling in and if you linked the boards with webbing stapled to them, you could make the boards a rollout/roll in feature.
The house with the barn is in Cambridgeshire fenland Dave, a GRP inspection pit would become a canoe during wet weather :-)

The ramp idea is really good though, I’ve always wanted a really good workshop.

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The house with the barn is in Cambridgeshire fenland Dave, a GRP inspection pit would become a canoe during wet weather :-)

The ramp idea is really good though, I’ve always wanted a really good workshop.

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Nah it'll be fine Alan. For a start the pit is set in concrete and secondly, i had a pit at my old house, 8ft above sea level in the Fens. Only time it got wet was when it rained because it was open to the elements. If i was able to keep my car over it when it rained, it was fine.


Your being in a barn, it's covered so won't be a problem at all.
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Nah it'll be fine Alan. For a start the pit is set in concrete and secondly, i had a pit at my old house, 8ft above sea level in the Fens. Only time it got wet was when it rained because it was open to the elements. If i was able to keep my car over it when it rained, it was fine.


Your being in a barn, it's covered so won't be a problem at all.
Good morn Dave,
You are probably right, but I recall at our place in Pentney (between King's Lynn and Swafham) one of our neighbours had a klargester unit pop out of the ground during their house construction - the water table was only 4' due to the lake.
Wisbech is probably a bit higher than that :-)
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Your being in a barn, it's covered so won't be a problem at all.
I had an inspection pit in our barn, installed by a previous owner in the 70s who maintained lorries here. It was hacked out of the rocks, about 4 feet down at that point, with block sides, a sloping rockface at the far (uphill) end, and an even rocky floor.
Water constantly seeped out of the rocks, turning into a stream in the autumn, but it had no clear exit - it simple seeped back into the ground at the other end.
There was an oily mess of old lorry parts buried in the silt, and the water rose to about 2 feet deep at most.
I never used it, foreseeing immediately that any parts or tools dropped into it would be lost for good. The wooden baulks laid across so that vehicles could access the rest of the barn rotted rapidly.
Inspection pits are dangerous places, as petrol fumes accumulate there, and there needs to be a fume extraction system.

I never used it, and recently concreted over the entire pit.
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Good morn Dave,
You are probably right, but I recall at our place in Pentney (between King's Lynn and Swafham) one of our neighbours had a klargester unit pop out of the ground during their house construction - the water table was only 4' due to the lake.
Wisbech is probably a bit higher than that :-)
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Wisbech is a very old port Alan and has a fairly large river flowing through it (Ouse or perhaps Great Ouse at that point, not sure) so it begs the question, is the house in Wisbech or one of the surrounding villages? If it's a surrounding village, depending on local conditions you may find yourself at sea level or below or possibly considerably higher.
If it's in the town, chances are you'll probably be ok as the houses tend to be built above the water table but obviously there's no guarantee.

I suspect having been a surveyor you could probably teach me a lot more about water tables than i could tell you.
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I had an inspection pit in our barn, installed by a previous owner in the 70s who maintained lorries here. It was hacked out of the rocks, about 4 feet down at that point, with block sides, a sloping rockface at the far (uphill) end, and an even rocky floor.
Water constantly seeped out of the rocks, turning into a stream in the autumn, but it had no clear exit - it simple seeped back into the ground at the other end.
There was an oily mess of old lorry parts buried in the silt, and the water rose to about 2 feet deep at most.
I never used it, foreseeing immediately that any parts or tools dropped into it would be lost for good. The wooden baulks laid across so that vehicles could access the rest of the barn rotted rapidly.
Inspection pits are dangerous places, as petrol fumes accumulate there, and there needs to be a fume extraction system.

I never used it, and recently concreted over the entire pit.
I suspect if you'd cleared the pit out and cleared the soakaway, it would have probably dried out and been usable. Shame you filled it with concrete as we'll never know now.
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