Hello From Japan I'm Factoryosaru

[FactoryOsaru 0]

Hi,everybody.

 

I am a Japanese do it yourselfer/an alfa owner.

I have spent more than 15 years of my life on driving Alfa 145 which I bought in 1998,of which at the

end the floor pan of 1st Alfa 145 had been rusted by sodium chloride used for a snow melting agent in snowy district and

I discarded it this year.

At the same time of this,I bought 2nd Alfa 145 and made up my mind of driving/maintaining it for a long time.

 

 

I think a set of car lift is necessary for me to maintain/tune up an old Alfa145 I think.

 

 

 

 

I bought MaxJax car lift from the US at the end of this October.

In Japan we cannot find stores selling MaxJax because there are few people who actually tune up/fix their cars by themselves.The houses are so tiny and most of us cannot afford garage spaces thanks to expensive cost for living and garaging because of our extremely large population density in Japan.

 

Fortunately I live in Hokkaido at the north end of Japan actually rural district and could buy a house with garage.

 

I like cars,drive cars and fix/tune cars from childhood.

 

 

So I decided to buy myself MaxJax this October from a dealer in US.

My one was shipped by sea for a month,and I picked it up at my nearest port

driving a rental small truck and went through the customs formalities by myself on 4 Dec 2013.

　

 

 

 

Offloaded my MaxJax with an engine crane,and my son helped me in my garage.

 

 

 

I have set it up by myself and use on 200V AC single phase 50Hz.

So I have to modify wiring to motor.

 

 

 

 

 

My motor is split-phase induction motor　completely different animal than that of previous one.

All wirings have done and in this week I have set anchors for this lift on the concrete floor of my garage.

 

 

 

 

Tools for anchoring.

 

 

 

 

Put 2 vacant bottles in the right angle to check drills perpendicular to the concrete surface.

 

 

 

 

Inserted anchors.

 

 

Extended the wrench with discarded genuine muffler because it was necessary to

tighten them with extreme torque.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally has the wrench gone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it's actually tiresome and feel slight pain on my back.

 

 

I'm going to my favourite ONSEN a Japanese spa for relaxation this afternoon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have a look at my house and commute.

 

 

 

Snows much today,enough of it!

 

 

 

 

My commute in winter.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzdZFLUhd0

Edited December 29, 2013 by FactoryOsaru

[K9d 108]

Welcome aboard

 

Interesting first post, I've had a couple of 146s and both of them were scrapped due to a rusty floor pan

[northernbstard 84]

Welcome on in

 

 

Nice place you have there btw...Are Alfa's popular in Japan ?

[Clem Fandango 71]

I wish I had a garage never mind a lift. Looking good.

[northernbstard 84]

I wish I had a garage never mind a lift. Looking good.

 

Aha but you've got a van HM ...He's had to hire one think on

 

Must admit that lift is sheer indulgence tho, best I can do is a 5t bottle jack

[FactoryOsaru 0]

Welcome aboard

 

Interesting first post, I've had a couple of 146s and both of them were scrapped due to a rusty floor pan

 

Thanks for your message!

145 or 146 seems to be rusty easily,but I like them of their driving feels.

[FactoryOsaru 0]

Welcome on in

 

 

Nice place you have there btw...Are Alfa's popular in Japan ?

 

Thanks

 

Generally Alfas are not popular in Japan but few enthusiasts love them a lot!!

[FactoryOsaru 0]

I wish I had a garage never mind a lift. Looking good.

 

Thanks

There are stupid Alfa dealers in our vicinity,so we fix it them by ourselves and made up my mind to get this lift.

[FactoryOsaru 0]

Aha but you've got a van HM ...He's had to hire one think on

 

Must admit that lift is sheer indulgence tho, best I can do is a 5t bottle jack

I wish I had a garage never mind a lift. Looking good.

 

I often change belts or suspensions of my/my friends cars and I have to change tires twice a year at least coz I live in snowy district.

 

 

 

Sorry sites linked below in Japanese only but lots of pictures of my work.

 

Changed cambelt of my Multipla.

http://minkara.carvi...22930/note.aspx

 

 

Changed belts of friends Panda

http://minkara.carvi.../blog/25113003/

 

 

Changed belt of my 2nd Alfa145.

http://minkara.carvi.../blog/30175568/

 

 

 

Gave my previous owned Alfa145 an overhaul in my garage.

http://minkara.carvi...27776/note.aspx

Edited January 2, 2014 by FactoryOsaru

[northernbstard 84]

Any time you get a MiTo in for a 'FactoryOsaru' job ...Tip me the wink

 

 

Hope I got that right

[FactoryOsaru 0]

Any time you get a MiTo in for a 'FactoryOsaru' job ...Tip me the wink

 

 

Hope I got that right

 

Thanks for your pretty new year greeting card.

 

Which type of engine do you drive?

 

 

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[northernbstard 84]

1.6 JTDM chipped to 156bhp , runs like hot snot from a kids nose

[smiffy 99]

1.6 JTDM chipped to 156bhp , runs like hot snot from a kids nose

 

'Chipped'

 

Wicked bruv innit

[FactoryOsaru 0]

1.6 JTDM chipped to 156bhp , runs like hot snot from a kids nose

 

Awesome!It has massive torque I think.

We cannot buy diesel ones in Japan officially.

Fiat Auto Japan imports petrol ones only,kinda boredom.