What are you doing to your rig - the continuing saga

[in4aride]

Definite my brother. She didn't like it cuz she kept sliding around so she gave it to him.

 

[DutchVDub]

I rarely use creepers for the same reason, you tend to slide around when you don't want to. Then, once you have a fair amount of tools and parts laying around under the truck the creeper is magically able to scoop them all up and wedge them under itself.

 

[xj-grin]

I agree -- I hate trying to torque a bolt and instead spinning around like I'm on a friggin Tilt-a-Whirl...

 

[time2getdirty]

Dad, I believe we are the only ones that work in the garage in our Sunday suits... Obviously since no one else cares about lying on the dirty cold concrete

 

[xj-grin]

what is this "sunday suit" you speak of?

 

[time2getdirty]

 

[xj-grin]

ROR. Makes me glad I am a godless heathen!

 

[supernatural]

frame stiffeners today. still waiting on my track bar mounts.

 

[DutchVDub]

I rarely use a creeper at home or at work. I wear coveralls at work and have garage clothes for the house.

 

[Gotlift01]

I use a creeper all the time. My back is not the best anymore, and rolling around on the concrete really pisses it off! The creepers can be a pain, but I'll deal with that pain over back pain any day.

 

[in4aride]

Ya I have to use a creeper now a days. And (man im gonna catch a flame for this) I wear the knee pads I got for doing concrete. With my knees getting worse - likely surgery on one here soon - I just cant take the pressure on them anymore. It sucks getting old.

 

[adrenalinepirate]

I hear you Mike the other night I was thinking the samething. How nice a pair of knee pads would be nice. My body can't take a lot of abuse like it use too.

 

[kastein]

I love using a creeper, I brace against the tires and such with my legs. It all goes well till I jam one of the wheels on a nut I dropped and can't move, or run over my own coat with it.

I want one of these pretty bad, I have to say.

 

[DutchVDub]

^^ That looks awesome, I think thats the worst part about wrenching. Always climbing up and down from on top of or underneath a vehicle.

Laying on the concrete actually feels good on my back. I have one of those kneeling pads from Matco at work, I'll probably be getting one for the house soon enough.

It definitely sucks getting old, and all I hear in my head when I get a new pain is the "old guy" saying I'll regret not using ______ when I'm older.

 

[UnlimitedMatt]

I want one of these pretty bad, I have to say.

I saw this on one of those invention shows on the Discovery Channel last year. It is pretty sweet! I want one too, but they said on the show that it would cost around $1000, so I'm out.

 

[USN0174]

I would never get any work done with one of those chairs... I'd spend all say scooting around my garage, going up and down. I would probably wear the damn thing out in a week.:laugh:

 

[supernatural]

I hear you Mike the other night I was thinking the samething. How nice a pair of knee pads would be nice. My body can't take a lot of abuse like it use too.

i'm a tile setter, so i ALWAYS use knee pads if i get down. lol. gel filled knee pads rawk

 

[old_man]

I use a dense foam pad on the ground for working under a vehicle. That way when I get up, my knees have something soft to roll over onto. I planned to modify a creeper to have a lever that pressed down and lifted the wheels to lock it in place. Never got around to it.

 

[DutchVDub]

I had to stay home with my son today, he spent the night throwing up. Still, the plus side is that while he was being lazy on the couch I got the rest of my beadlocks mounted up.

 

[USN0174]

Looks good Dutch.