Where do you park your Truck?

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 29, 2022

RamDiver said:
Why not jack up your truck using a trolly jack under the frame to guage how tall of jack stands you would require with 4x4s to raise the wheels enough?

What I have always read in shop manuals is that it's not a good idea to leave your vehicle jacked up by the frame for long periods as it puts stress on the bushings and ball joints and tie rods.

The owner's manual says to use the axels as the jacking points for changing a tire. So I know under those conditions it's ok, but that is typically one at a time and short term.

I guess the smarter thing would be just to drive it once a week and make it a ritual. But the more I drive it, the more I want to do things to it BESIDES drive it. And all those things cost money.

turkeybird56 · Jul 29, 2022

Dan Topp said:
When we were shopping for houses or really garages I could only think of the setup that was a struggle to fit my vette. Still had to raise trusses headers and get custom track springs cables and drums from lift master. Doors Menards.View attachment 498814 View attachment 498815 View attachment 498816Doubt if anyone could get me to crank this spring again,the normal side was bad enoughView attachment 498817

See my garage post #24. An old pole barn garage had swing fiberglass wooden frame doors. I had all the doors replaced with 3 pull rollup doors. (2) were made special, and one was a standard 6' door. Had to have dual tracks on the 2 special made doors, cut specific for my garage opening, and size of door, etc.,. Sure makes it convenient. But on my center door, they drilled a small bolt hole in one side of the frame, and I have to push that door beyond the normal stop to get enuf height to park my 14' X 5' trailer in garage, due to height restriction. MY RAM just fits, in center (left side has hay), fits by about 4", lol, but works. I only put in when there are major hail storm warnings, let trailer get beat up then pretty RAM.

ADDED: I had door installer play, install (of course, part of installation) with those nasty super duper torqued springs. He had the special tools. Just did not want to try and play with them cables, drums, springs, and maybe get really hurt by that compressed monster, LOL. My center door jammed once, and screwed the setup, and I paid installer to come out and redo the setup. Bad enuf fussing with lil brake drum springs, those door springs R no joke.

Dan Topp · Jul 29, 2022

My unwinding bars have never failed me,I’m eliminating a door that was for driving through. A wimpy seven turns to unwind

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 29, 2022

You guys with your fancy insulated walls and gas forced air heat. Is that Pex tubing?

RamDiver · Jul 29, 2022

I bought a 36" bar from a lumber store and cut it in half with the neighbour's mitre saw to make a set of tensioner adjustment bars.

I used them to install a new tensioner spring after the original suddenly expired.
It was much cheaper to do it myself.

My neighbour also used the bars to install a tensioner spring on his new shop door.

Dan Topp · Jul 29, 2022

Oliver Closehauf said:
You guys with your fancy insulated walls and gas forced air heat. Is that Pex tubing?

Air and water is 3/4 pex It’s legal here,and so easy.

Dan Topp · Jul 29, 2022

RamDiver said:
I bought a 36" bar from a lumber store and cut it in half with the neighbour's mitre saw to make a set of tensioner adjustment bars.

I used them to install a new tensioner spring after the original suddenly expired.
It was much cheaper to do it myself.

My neighbour also used the bars to install a tensioner spring on his new shop door.

The 1/2” rebar has done about 5 doors,a little fitting with a grinder,they’re tight

Old Mopar Guy · Jul 29, 2022

In Arizona it goes in the garage since it's so hot here. Need to preserve the used 2014! Even if it were new it would be garaged.

Old Mopar Guy · Jul 29, 2022

odinjunior said:
In the Garage....

"Patriot Guard Rider"... my hats off to you sir! That's serious dedication.

Oliver Closehauf · Jul 29, 2022

Dan Topp said:
Air and water is 3/4 pex It’s legal here,and so easy.

It was the sheer luxury I was commenting about

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I've gotta find a place in the country.

Dan Topp · Jul 30, 2022

Oliver Closehauf said:
It was the sheer luxury I was commenting about .

I've gotta find a place in the country. Definitely I grew up in Chicago where garages were small and parking impossible.

Moose2 · Jul 30, 2022

In my shop.

1 MEAN66 · Aug 20, 2022

Not allowed in the garage attached to house, My old man built it in 1958, i bought I bought it when he had enough and went on permanent vacation "97", But she allowed me to build or "shed" I do our vehicle maintenance and builds in the "shed". after all she's a car gal. It just fits in that door (1.5" clearance) and come out when I need to work on anything. we had it shelled and did all internal stuff.

bcbouy · Aug 20, 2022

i have so much stuff in my yard,7 boats,wifes car,travel trailer,side by side,lawn tractors,snow throwers,boat trailers,utility trailers,etc. all on a 3/4 acre lot.i never park in one spot for long before i'm moving something around.i'm trying to talk my son into clearing a spot on his 4 acre lot to build a big @ss storage building until my next door neighbor sells us his empty cleared lot.

PaleFlyer · Oct 25, 2022

Driveway currently. Wife has the "spot" in the garage. Previous put cabinets in the garage that are too useful to remove, and also the riding mower... Plus HOA has weird rules on sheds, so the "biggest" shed I can legally put in (with out trying to get them to realize the rules are dumb) would basically just be the riding mower... Which is ridiculous.

New house, not sure. 7' door seems a little tight, plus the driveway angles up to the garage. And still need to store ****/kids riding toys.

Dan Topp · Oct 27, 2022

On the newest taller lift No more hitt my head.But it could crush the truck,something the regular hd9 wouldn’t do.

Skatulaki · Jan 2, 2023

I'm in Fla. I park mine under a particular tree in my yard, that keeps it in the shade in summer, and keeps the dew off in Florida winter.

DILLIGAF · Jan 2, 2023

The LiftMaster 8500W wall mount garage door opener allowed me to get rid of the stupid chain drive that was in the way of the lift.

runamuck · Jan 20, 2023

I built a detached garage with small shop to park mine in.

co-pilot · Feb 6, 2023

Night time in garage .........Day time in the elements (parked at my job)

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