Having a bad day? Just walk it off and hope it goes away

[Mook]

Fuck

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[Mook]

Now that I rewatch this.....is this just an elaborate troll? Looks like an empty shell?

What am I looking at here?

 

[DanJ]

No motor or hatch. Whole front end breaking off doesn’t look like a good time.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Probably doing other work while drive train is out

 

[Mook]

Ya, motor is obviously out but the entire body just looks like a model

 

[DEEZUZ]

Those lift arms automatically lock and should not have moved. Hmm.

Not that that would've stopped the fall. It looks awfully unbalanced. Was probably perfect when drive train was in.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

He walked off to go shake the shit out of his underwear. Even if staged, that front end coming apart and raining down parts was pretty close to him.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I've seen those lifts with those arms and it's usually a t-handle you have to tighten down to keep the arms from moving....

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

The fender covers protected em perfectly

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

That's a bad day

 

[LikeABauce302]

I had a moment where the front end of my fox body was getting really light as I was stripping it for my engine and front suspension swap. I quickly rolled my trans jack under the rear axle and I started removing the rear wheels, nitrous bottle, battery, and fuel tank ?. I'm glad I didn't end up like this guy.

 

[Wrencher]

Dumb ass
You strap them down from the bottom/under lift arms with the drive train out.
And use screw jacks on heavy end when in a fixed/lift on lock position.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Maaaan that's brutal, sick car too

 

[DEEZUZ]

I still don't get the lift arms moving.

Any loft I've seen manufactured after 1956 has automatic spring loaded locks that secure the arms from moving.

In this case it would've stopped the car from smashing down, then they could have simply lowered the car down

 

[Lead Pipe]

It's a C6, I call that a good start.

 

[The Beast]

I had a moment where the front end of my fox body was getting really light as I was stripping it for my engine and front suspension swap. I quickly rolled my trans jack under the rear axle and I started removing the rear wheels, nitrous bottle, battery, and fuel tank [emoji23]. I'm glad I didn't end up like this guy.

Nice job with the save, but fuck the car what’s important is the guy or guys working on the car.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I still remember when an in-ground hydraulic lift failed while me and my coworker was underneath it.

Thankfully it started dropping slowly and probably took 10 seconds before it hit the ground

I used to love that lift

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

I still don't get the lift arms moving.

Any loft I've seen manufactured after 1956 has automatic spring loaded locks that secure the arms from moving.

In this case it would've stopped the car from smashing down, then they could have simply lowered the car down

Isn’t there a release lever on the back side? Maybe the lever got hit by the car as it was sliding off and pushed them in.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Not that I've ever seen. Each arm has a springed loaded lock you have to lift up to Un lock the teeth to move the arms.

The lock lever is for the locks to prevent lowering.

 

[Stink Star]

Not that I've ever seen. Each arm has a springed loaded lock you have to lift up to Un lock the teeth to move the arms.

The lock lever is for the locks to prevent lowering.

We used to have old lifts here (dealer built in 80s) that had weird locks you could turn on and off. You’d turn them off, place the arms and turn them back on. Well of course people never left them on though. We got rid of those lifts a few years back.

 

[VenomousDSG]

I bet that weight distribution was like 70/30 toward the rear with no engine, or worse... intelligent not planning for something like that to happen.

 

[Dan00Hawk]

Calling the customer, "Hey, in addition to the motor work, how about we throw on some new body parts and a full aero package, on the house?"