{"id":945,"date":"2015-09-21T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/?p=945"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:54:19","slug":"day-1922-lift-pit-or-ramps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/2015\/09\/21\/day-1922-lift-pit-or-ramps\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1922 &#8220;Lift, Pit, or Ramps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0managed to get around to working on the car this weekend. The driver shock is in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_190046_741_zps7r5azgsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_190046_741_zps7r5azgsa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_190038_509_zps4hamimrv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_190038_509_zps4hamimrv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_193021_928_zpsbumzhm6s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_193021_928_zpsbumzhm6s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_194440_352_zps9zxr0iar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_194440_352_zps9zxr0iar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The isolator looked fine on the driverside but it&#8217;s replaced with a new one just in case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_194747_516_zpsdyblstgo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/forge\/images\/cars\/96camaro\/operationx\/IMG_20150920_194747_516_zpsdyblstgo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"643\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some big hurdles in the next few weeks. I must pull out my transmission again. My slave cylinder is leaking and my clutch is chattering a bit. I&#8217;m going to make them swap it out for a new kit.<\/p>\n<p>But here is a &#8220;small&#8221; to do list in prep for the cruise. I sure as hell don&#8217;t want to break down this time.<\/p>\n<p>-I&#8217;ve finally decided on a sub box concept that will work for both the sub (acoustically) and my tops.<\/p>\n<p>-My Seats will be going back in as soon as I fix them and fix the mounting. My driver seat in fixed and mounted but needs adjusting and the passenger seat is next.<\/p>\n<p>-A few maintenance items: a couple Cluster indicators are out, wiper pulse board, plugs, and oil change.<\/p>\n<p>-My push button start is on the fritz still. I&#8217;m going to move the relays and stuff closer to the actual ignition switch to help with the voltage drop which I&#8217;m certain is the problem. My battery must be getting old and the cranking voltage isn&#8217;t as high as it used to be. Cranking with the key works flawlessly so I know is isolated with the push button.<\/p>\n<p>-Finally, I&#8217;ve still got my headlights to redesign. I few people have been interested in seeing the new design because it will be a universal fit for several types of light sources to replace those shitty factory lamps.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of stuff to do and only 7 weekends to do it in.<\/p>\n<p>oh I forgot to mention that I&#8217;ve been looking at a better way to pull the transmission from the car. There are very few options that I&#8217;m ok with. honestly taking it to someone else&#8217;s place is not what I want to do. All they will have is concrete vs my driveway unless I find out someone i know has a lift. Then maybe I&#8217;ll reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at portable lifts. That was too expensive. I then looked at portable pits. It&#8217;s better but still expensive. and i looked at a nice set of ramps. several options but none that I could say does everything I need.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve decided to stop looking for something that is close and build my own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to first build a ramp system that will have enough reach that my car won&#8217;t bottom out on the ramp yet still give me 8&#8243; of height. this will work for 90% of want I need to do to the car in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>the second thing i will build is tall stands for the tires. I&#8217;ve seen people use tire stands to lift the whole car and it looks nice and sturdy. Each tire will be cradled in a 12&#215;16 box made from 2&#215;4&#8217;s just like my stands I made to pull the motor. I should be able to get 12+ inches of height if I make the stands have a nice base on them. This will make pulling the transmission a little easier.<\/p>\n<p>Going to grab a new jack as well. The one I have is showing it age. Its got to be 10yrs old by now lol. It leaks down if holding weight. probably going to blow a seal at some point. probably going to grab an HF aluminum one with the quick pump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0managed to get around to working on the car this weekend. The driver shock is in. The isolator looked fine on the driverside but it&#8217;s replaced with a new one just in case. There are some big hurdles in the next few weeks. I must pull out my transmission again. My slave cylinder is leaking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/2015\/09\/21\/day-1922-lift-pit-or-ramps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 1922 &#8220;Lift, Pit, or Ramps&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9l0gt-ff","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankforged.com\/blog\/96camaro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}