I tied a bunch of knots in a heavy piece of rope so they made a big bundle, put
the bundle of knots under the ramp, laid the rest of the rope out so when I
drove up on the ramps the rope would be under the tires of the car. Once the
tire hit the front of the ramp the rope can't come through. Worked slicker than
snot when I had my 240D. The 190D needed a piece of 2x8 laid before the leading
edge of the ramp to get the front clip up over the ramp but that still worked
pretty good.
-Curt
From: Larry Turner via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: Larry Turner <l02tur...@comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2017 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] I am an Idiot
good idea!
LarryT
On 03/19/2017 8:44 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
> I have a set of huge metal ramps that I have had for about 25 years that will
> slide out from under car as you try to drive on them, so I have to put a
> piece of carpet or old floor mat under them, then they don't slide.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 19, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Larry Turner via Mercedes
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's why I don't like metal ramps - they have always started to slide when
>> I tried to drive onto them. I guess the concrete surface where I was
>> working was too slick for them? I was thinking that perhaps there are some
>> kind of hard foam/plastic ramps that will support the car, and be light
>> enough to move around and will be easy to drive on and won't slide across
>> concrete.
>>
>> Of course a lift would be ideal.
>>
>> LarryT
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 03/18/2017 1:40 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote:
>>> I bought a couple of ramps and used them for the first oil change on the
>>> Prius. Drove it up on the ramps with some uncertainty about how far to go,
>>> but it turned out to be almost centered.
>>> When I tried to back off the ramps after the oil change, the car just
>>> dropped to the pavement with a loud screeching noise and I thought sh*t!
>>> I'm afraid to look at how much damage the ramps have done to the Prius.
>>> I had put on the emergency brake (rear wheels only) and forgotten that the
>>> Prius was front wheel drive. When I tried to back off, the front wheels had
>>> slid the ramps forward which let the Prius roll down the ramps with no
>>> damage. Big duh! but much gratitude to the gaurdian angel who sometimes
>>> looks out for DIYers.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>> I've always worried about doing that very thing. Interestingly I've never
>>>> been able to drive either of the VWs up onto my ramps as they're too steep
>>>> for the front clip.
>>>> -Curt
>>>>
>>>> From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>>> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>>> Cc: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net>
>>>> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:54 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] I am an Idiot
>>>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:27:53 -0500 Curley McLain via Mercedes
>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>>>>> March 17, 2017 at 4:01 PM
>>>>>> Remember the paper towel I used to shield my hand when I picked up
>>>>>> the housing out of the oven? The corner of it was stuck under the air
>>>>>> flap in the intake of the fuel distributor, with the rest of it just
>>>>>> laying on top. The MN gods must have been holding on to it so it
>>>>>> didn’t get ingested into the engine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <head slap>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So that was my “I can’t believe I did that!” moment for the week. Or
>>>>>> hopefully, the month.
>>>>> When I cranked up the OM616 I got from mao, I forgot to take out the
>>>>> blue paper towel I had stuffed in the intake to keep the birds and the
>>>>> bees out of the intake. It ran kind of rough for a while, and
>>>>> eventually smoothed out. When I shut it off, the blue towel was on the
>>>>> ground, somewhat shredded, having been spit out the exhaust manifold.
>>>>> Somehow, it made the whole trip through the engine. 425 PSI can pretty
>>>>> effectively blow it out I guess.
>>>> A couple of days ago, I was starting to change the differential gear oil
>>>> on the Big Red Van. I could roll under the van on a creeper, but it was
>>>> rather tight. So, I backed the van up onto two car ramps to increase the
>>>> clearance. At one point, I wasn't sure I was on top of the ramps, so I
>>>> backed up a little more. The rear wheels then went off the vertical end
>>>> of the ramps and bounced on the floor. Fortunately, the BRV has lots of
>>>> clearance, so it didn't touch the ramps when it came down. It was only
>>>> embarrasing, not damaging like it would have been if I had done this in
>>>> the Benz ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Craig
>>>>
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