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Originally Posted by aoncurly
Just curious if you are going through the trouble and expense to set the scissor lift in a pit, why not just buy a 2-post lift that would allow full access to the underside of the entire car and really, any other car? Bendpak claims they have 2-post lifts to fit almost all garages...
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For me, it is simple. Reason one: When the lift is lowered into the pit, and I place the plywood over it, it is essentially gone. I can walk across or use it to work on my lawn equipment.
Reason two, my garage is a fully finished interior, with 12 foot ceilings, and a two post lift has two posts in the way every single day I am not using it. And the posts take up a lot of room.
Reason three: My garage in on the side of my house. The logical way to park in the single bay garage it to pull, up to the end of the parking area, and then back up to park. So I back in to park and just pull forward to leave.
My "work" bay is the single garage on the right.
For me, I have no regrets having a scissor lift in a pit. I can do a transmission fluid change easily. I replaced the fuel line in the tunnel and was working at the nose of the transmission at the firewall with no issues, and at the fuel pump end as well.