How is your home garage configured?

[DenverCurmudgeon]

For all the folks that do their own repairs, could you give a little insight into how you work?

Do you use air tools? What kind/size of compressor?
any advice on features to look for?

Does anyone use a big floor jack and 4 jackstands?

What about other odd tools and machines, like pullers and presses?

thanks,
m

[OkieRover]

I have a big tool chest. Most every size of wrench. If I don't have it I go get it.
I use the floor jack and stands. It's a must.
I have an air compressor too. But it is not big enough to run tools. I use it a lot though.
I don't have a press. I have the tie rod tool as well.
I also have an old carpet that i sit on.

[DenverCurmudgeon]

Originally Posted by OkieRover

I have a big tool chest. Most every size of wrench. If I don't have it I go get it.
I use the floor jack and stands. It's a must.
I have an air compressor too. But it is not big enough to run tools. I use it a lot though.
I don't have a press. I have the tie rod tool as well.
I also have an old carpet that i sit on.

4 stands, right?

If your compressor can't run tools, then what do you use it for?

[96owner]

i have a grage packed full on yard work crap but if i want to get work done on the rover i get to use a dealer. having a step dad at land rover rocks

[SCSL]

"configured" may be too strong a word, lol......

Basically, all stuffed into the garage amidst a ton of camping & fishing gear, I have:

A work bench full of tools & bits & a few old tool boxes full of crap I don't even know why I bother to keep. I don't know about you guys, but with 2 trucks & a garage, I have a lot of duplicate tools... otherwise I would be forever moving tool bags from truck to truck every time I wanted to take one out.... I tend to keep a whole assortment of wrenches & sockets in each truck, and in the garage.

A shelf upon which sits various spare parts, cases of oil, filters, & etc

An air compressor with the various fittings, sockets, and oil

A creeper, a floor jack, 2 jack stands, a rolling stool

A few drain buckets for changing motor & gear oil

A bunch of empty detergent jugs (good to pour out old oil into & take to dump to be disposed of properly)

and
5 stock alloy rims (not sure why I still have these)

[OkieRover]

4. Definately.
I had the Rangie up on all 4 for most of the winter.

How do I use the compressor???
to blow out dirt. Clean parts off. Dry parts quickly. Air tires. Sweep the garage. I also have air nailers and staplers when I build furniture. Lots of stuff!

I have an air wrench. Only one. I just haven't invested the money in the tools yet. I can't run the big tools but wrenches should be fine.

[WineryRover]

As with most of us, more hand tools than I can count. If I need it, I'll buy it. Having the right tool for the job makes things go much faster and easier. I also use:

rolling tool box with work bench top
Air (50 gallon tank) to run tools
creeper & rolling stool
engine hoist and engine stand
4 big ass jack stands
2 floor jacks
vise
five self unit on rollers that holds spare or removed parts
several clamp lights
radio cd player
fully stocked refrigerator

That is what I have found to be helpful to have while working on the d90 and rebuilding the sIII. That and an understanding wife.

[Buddy Lee]

Originally Posted by WineryRover

That and an understanding wife.

Wow where did you find one of those? Any idea where I can find one of those? I've been looking for one for years.

[Rondo]

Originally Posted by WineryRover

radio cd player
fully stocked refrigerator

Both are an absolute must.

[OkieRover]

Rolling stool!
Frig definately.
Lights. I bought a new set of lights with stand for the last project. They also heat the area I'm working on so that's kinda nice in the winter.

[01001010]

Back in Miami, my house didnt have a garage (well it did 20 years ago..lol) but my dad and I have a shop out back fully equipped with everything needed for mechanics or carpentry or scuba & spearfishing gear repair. The one thing my dad has been drueling over is a full sized lathe. The shop has two work benches and we have it split up into sections. One wall has all the spearfishing and diving gear mounted to it. Another wall has shelves and racks with home improvement stuff. The work benches dont meet at the corner of the two other walls so In that empty space we have a BIG tool box with a set of basic tools that stay IN the shop and all the mechanic specialty tools

When I worked on the truck at the front of the house, I had a cart with a tool box on the upper level equipped with all tools needed to perform basic maintanence. I too have a compressor but like in Okie's situation, isnt enough to efficiently run air tools with and give it the same use Okie does. Besides, even if I start a job with air tools (which I rarely do) I always end up using hand tools.

On the lower level of the car I had the larger socket-wrench set, jack stands, and any fluids I needed to transport from the shop to the truck.

Since I always preferred to work at night I had plenty of white lights with stands or hooks to hang them from the holes on the underside of hte hood.

LOL...and like Okie, I too use an old rug.

On a side note, since this isnt a D1 specific subject, I'm going to move this thread into the General Section so that more people may chime in.

[TN-LR3]

assorted tools that I'm to lazy to organize, a compressor, some axles,3rd member,paint ball junk, and MY baby the D-90 stay in the garage

[jmeyert4a]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm a newbie to Land Rovers, but I've been working on cars since the 1950's...

In highschool, my neighbor, "Waldo Hirshfield" owned both ends of the National "B" Gas record, and later the "B" Altered record in drag racing, and I was his "Go-Fer"... (Blown Chevy / Howard Cam specials)

In the 1960's I was a partner in a couple of pretty competetive West Coast NASCAR Grand National Cars, and a contending sprint car.

Through the 70's and 80's I made my living consulting and supplying metallurgical services to clients in the (mostly) Championship Cars and Formula One arena, but had a few NASCAR accounts, a high-end corporate motorcycle account, and somehow got very involved with off-road racing. I built axles, knock-off hubs and various suspention bits / pieces. (That was "fun", but didn't put much money in the bank!)

From the mid-80's to early 90's, I was with PPI, the Toyota off-road team...

Over all of those years I've bought, or made, pretty much every tool that I've ever needed. (Just starting on the Land Rover specials...)

I have a three car garage AND a workshop, (but couldn't get into it last week when I did my suspention upgrade, because my son has now set up a wood working / cabinet shop that blocks my access... ) (We'll have to talk about that if this truck keeps requiring major attention... I hadn't had to do anything major to my Isuzus for the past couple of years...)

For equipment beyond hand and specialty tools, I have a small Lincoln MIG welder, a 10T shop press, two floor jacks, 3 Page Ranking of short stands, 2 Pr. of tall stands, two engine stands (3 if we count the bench stand for VWs), engine hoist and chain hoist, two solvent tanks (one for normal parts washing and the other for really-clean cleaning stuff), a compressor (20 gal., that is marginal at best...Plans call for a bigger unit and rigid piping, but don't know that I'll ever get around to that... This one works.)... I also have a pretty solid drill press, (and if my son doesn't catch me, I'll re work his bandsaw to at least cut sheet metal.)

(In an earlier life I worked in the steel forging and heat treating industry, then worked with a farrier for a while, so I also have a small forge and an anvil, but haven't fired it up in maybe 20 years...)

My son and I mountain bike, so we have an area set aside with bike stands, truing stands, and a pretty complete set of Park bicycle tools.

We have one bench dedicated to electrical, wiring / test stuff and tools.

I also have most of the precision measuring tools needed to do a decent engine overhaul.

Better yet, I have a couple of young guys within a short driving distance, who are into off-road and ralley car preperation, and they have all of the fabrication tools (including a lathe and mill) that I'm lacking. I give them free metallurgical advice and they don't {over-}charge me when I need something fabricated...

(After last weekend's suspention upgrade, I've come to realize that working on cars on-the-ground is not nearly as much fun at age 64 as it was back when I was thirty-something... I may get rid of this truck and go back to a Toyota or Isuzu that don't require all of the attention.)

[OkieRover]

Jmeyer-
Your shop sounds like my buddy's.
He has EVERYTHING. Problem is you can't find it. He has a building that he and his buddy have their Jags in. They have a lift and paint booth and all kinds of tools. Metal benders and lathes welders...
and you'd think I could get my Rover in there....NOOOoooooooooooo.
He helps when he can.