Lift placement

Do you or someone you know own a crew cab truck?

Park it inside and see.

My building is 30w by 26 deep and I barely have room to work under the hood of my 17' long Dakota ext cab.

That should be NINE FEET of clearance, but it gets eaten up fast.
I have a 24" deep workbench along the back wall, but that's it.
Where is that SEVEN FEET?

You never want lass than a foot of clearance on each end.
Really a foot is not enough either.

I’m going to have a friend of mine bring over their crew cab and park it in the bay and see how well the lift lines up. Unfortunately I’m not going to have the room to put anything along the back wall of the bay with the lift in it. My workbench will have to be elsewhere