Also consider what you are hanging the chain hoist on, this being potentially the weakest link. I have seen a 302 Cleveland and C4 trans hanging from the bottom chord of a roof truss made entirely from 100x50 pine. The creaking sounds it made did not fill me with confidence.
Love that green paint. Reminds me of a humbrol colour teenage me used on far too many models. Does it have a little bit of metal flake in it or is it just looking super glossy in your pics?
Nothing wrong with overkill. As a draughtsman fresh out of polytech I had a go at designing a timber boardwalk structure. The senior engineer had a look at my design, took out half the columns, and reckoned it would be about right.
My Civic was refused a wof a couple of times for weeping oil past the sump gasket. Once again not a huge amount but they didn't like the look of it on the day.
My first thought on seeing this was to wonder if it was my dad's old car (rego KH854 I think). Then I decided it was the wrong shade of blue.
Wish you both all the best with it.
Ex Northlander now resident in the South here. Where is Burger Fuel located in Whangarei? Was back up there in January visiting family. So much has changed since I left in '94.
The Hilux we had at work in the early '00s was so shagged the front leaf springs bent the wrong way. It wallowed like a pig and was generally terrible to drive but everyone in the office knew that and drove it accordingly. It still got wofs but maybe it shouldn't have?
So theoretically I should have got a cert to change my Civic from the factory 12" steel rims to 13" steel rims of a later iteration of the same model that I bought as a parts car?