Working under your dent
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Get ya one of these
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Cargo Master
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From: Aransas Pass, Tx
Ok maybe that isn't the exact next step but a guy can dream
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Joined: Feb 2017
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From: Owasso, OK
I'm using a combo of creeper and cardboard. The cardboard is basically soaking up oil and grease. It's easy to replace and does a pretty good job. It helps keep the garage floors from getting too messy.
If I don't have room for the creeper, then I just lay on the floor.
If I don't have room for the creeper, then I just lay on the floor.
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Joined: Feb 2016
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I use cardboard mostly and I have a 1/4" 6'x3' plywood for the gravel work. but the one thing I keep handy in the garage is an empty one liter soft drink bottle to use as a head test. saves the neck from strain!
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
If I have to work under your truck in the regular size gravel, a few sheets of card board or a piece of 2'x6' scrap carpet works fine.
If it is in the larger 3" fill rock under one carport (trying to fill the soft ground under it). I grab a 4x4 or 4x8 sheet of 1/4 plywood or OSB and then my creeper. Ck out the "bone" creeper for a supposed new design.
I also have a old style Army mat made out of HD foam, measures 2x6 3/8 thick rolls up small enough to keep behind the seat.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/military-sleeping-pa
I am so build a step/work bench out of a old living room table. And a pallet stack step/work bench. Stack then right, cut in half and get 2 outa the deal.
For laying over radiator I use old horse saddle pads. I also a few old style boat seat cushions and even a few out of a helicopter....
Also a nice idea, but too much $$ IMO. w.ebay.com/itm/Top-Side-Under-Hood-Stand-Up-Creeper-Above-Car-Truck-Mechanics-Work-Stand-Ladder-/281200677343
I am NOT a fan of the Harbor Freight alum step latter, its to tall and unstable and a great way to get spit off it and into the engine compartment.
If it is in the larger 3" fill rock under one carport (trying to fill the soft ground under it). I grab a 4x4 or 4x8 sheet of 1/4 plywood or OSB and then my creeper. Ck out the "bone" creeper for a supposed new design.
I also have a old style Army mat made out of HD foam, measures 2x6 3/8 thick rolls up small enough to keep behind the seat.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/military-sleeping-pa
I am so build a step/work bench out of a old living room table. And a pallet stack step/work bench. Stack then right, cut in half and get 2 outa the deal.
For laying over radiator I use old horse saddle pads. I also a few old style boat seat cushions and even a few out of a helicopter....
Also a nice idea, but too much $$ IMO. w.ebay.com/itm/Top-Side-Under-Hood-Stand-Up-Creeper-Above-Car-Truck-Mechanics-Work-Stand-Ladder-/281200677343
I am NOT a fan of the Harbor Freight alum step latter, its to tall and unstable and a great way to get spit off it and into the engine compartment.
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From: Fort Wayne IN
I'm about 50/50 cardboard/creeper. I like the creeper better for quick jobs but floor has to be clean.
My garage isn't heated so in the winter it is super cold working under the truck but talking to a mechanic he suggested using a old heating blanket under the cardboard. Sounds like a great idea I haven't tried it yet but maybe this christmas my wife will get a new heating blanket and I can grab the old one.
My garage isn't heated so in the winter it is super cold working under the truck but talking to a mechanic he suggested using a old heating blanket under the cardboard. Sounds like a great idea I haven't tried it yet but maybe this christmas my wife will get a new heating blanket and I can grab the old one.
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Tuned
Joined: Jun 2017
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I use a creeper most of the time, but the added height is a pain when working on the wife's minivan. Also not helpful when I have to put some elbow grease into a bolt and the creeper wants to slide around! Still worth it for the comfort. 
Tuned
Joined: Dec 2014
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From: North central TX
I have access to a pneumatic drive on lift from the late 40's for the major jobs, otherwise its cardboard over gravel for me.
I often contemplate the logistics of digging that thing out of the ground and moving it to my house...
I often contemplate the logistics of digging that thing out of the ground and moving it to my house...
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From: Bathurst, New Brunswick
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From: Rocklin, CA
I use cardboard and a creeper. Got tired of my creeper binding up on the cardboard and the cracks in the floor when rolling around, upgraded the wheels to old skateboard wheels which helps. Plus it raises the creeper up a little more which works out nicely when working underneath a lifted truck, a little less neck strain.