Originally posted by Alan Coles:
[Actually, livinsvt, I believe its not the vapours from a running car exhaust that were the major concern, but gasoline vapours that could collect down in the pit. This happens when a person is doing any head/intake/etc., work where you're going to have an open fuel delivery system or some "standing" fuel. Especially in older non-fuel injected vehicles that don't have the same shut-off systems for the fuel. That's my recollection anyway.

Regards, Alan



Our pit actualy does have a vent that sucks air out. Your right though it is stagnet air down there and if there was a fuel leak under neath than that could potentialy be a problem. But I also have a portable fan that I use to push the air around a little. Plus, again its not that type of hoist you would use for any of that work. For one you couldn't stand in front of the car to do head/intake work, unless you were hanging from the ceiling . Though only thing I could see would be changing fuel filters, and maybe lines. But besides a quick lube station, alignments is all I have seen them used for around here. Were not allowed to weld in them or use a acetlyne(sp) torch

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