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freebeard · 02-11-2018, 02:52 PM

I'm thinking of the grease pit in the movie California Kid.

If you lay a 2x4 across both ramps you gain lift and the ramps won't slide. The front of my Superbeetle is so low it's like the 'dark' side of the Moon. I made extension wedges from 16" lengths of 2x8 that had lag bolts on the under, upper side that slot into holes in the ramp. If I was serious about it, I'd make metal wedges that hinge 180° for storage. Not time for that.

Not that there is oil to change under the front of a Superbeetle, anyways.

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freebeard Master EcoModder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: northwest of normal Posts: 28,929 Thanks: 8,211 Thanked 8,986 Times in 7,423 Posts	I'm thinking of the grease pit in the movie California Kid. If you lay a 2x4 across both ramps you gain lift and the ramps won't slide. The front of my Superbeetle is so low it's like the 'dark' side of the Moon. I made extension wedges from 16" lengths of 2x8 that had lag bolts on the under, upper side that slot into holes in the ramp. If I was serious about it, I'd make metal wedges that hinge 180° for storage. Not time for that. Not that there is oil to change under the front of a Superbeetle, anyways. __________________ . .Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster ________________ . .Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense, and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature. -- Sabine Hossenfelder