/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Based pit poster here...

Make a good solid cover for it. We used 8" channel iron that sit down into angle iron embedded into the top of the concrete so that they're flush with the floor. Bonus point for the channel iron is that it is strong enough to use as a jacking point when jacking up a transmission to get the crossmember out, or jacking up an engine to pull engine mounts.

Since we put a lift in we don't use it much, but the pit still has its applications for heavy truck/equipment service and pulling things such as our forklift onto (it would exceed the weight capacity of our lift, and would be sketchy as fuck anyhow even if it didn't). It used to be all we had so it got used for clutch jobs, transmission swaps, oil changes, basically everything...