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Hey, KD.
Bad news on your engine. It's frustrating to
say the least.
Your design for your engine stand is good
but I might suggest 6 gussets be added.
Two on each side from the bottom tube
to the base plate centered on the uprites.
plus 2 from the uprites to the bottom tube.
The mechanical...
...done here.
Floor pan epoxy primer applied to seal up the surface.
Engine compartment in epoxy primer. Ready for paint.
Painting completed.
K frame and suspension to be removed next.
Some scrap angle iron and casters to build some simple dollies to move car around the shop without...
...anyone or if he has did not explain the actual situation well enough.
I can still get the car but I am going to have to break in and use dollies on the front tires to move it around which I would rather not do.
Anyone from CA got any insight to this situation, I am trying to determine...
How tall are your dollies with the wheels, and do the front or back have a cross bar, and would you have them higher or lower than yours, given the choice?
Making my own. Nice progress on your project, I’m sure it’s going to come out amazing!
People think they are heavier than they are...I have seen a lot of different weights. Being Unibody with a small block with aluminum heads heads and stuff I’m guessing about 3300-3500#. They are very narrow...not big cars. Al though the steel was more dense back then.
...to protect the new windshields while in their boxes. I'll use the bubble stuff to give my doors some further protection while they are on the dollies. The foam will get used for padding/protection somewhere else. When I used to work at the body shop some years ago, Ford/Toyota and some others...
...its Draconian BS laws as you do, but in reality you ain't playing fair. And when I go to the shows, I see stacks and stacks of ammo in box dollies or what have you being taken out to the parking lot and being loaded into vehicles with nothing but Commiefornia plates. Please at least try and...
I have the front of the car on wheel dollies, the rear of the car is on jack stands. Do i put the rear wheels on the ground, and use jack stands on the torque boxes? Of, course I will have to take off the wheel dollies up front.
Your dollies look like the ones my BP came with. The salesman from Best Buy assured me that I could use those on the lift while moving a car around like Back Yard Buddy showed on their website with a Camaro on the lift. NOT! This is what I ended up making after I folded the supplied BP units...
Look back at what I posted. The one I made had 4 two inch long locating pins going into the unitized frame holes. No way it will slip off. We trailered it and unloaded it with the dolly.
...left overs and tack welded it together... Now it's long enough it just looks terrible. Spent a good while on the floor with some hammer and dollies and hammered the body line in the new section and did my best to make it look decent.
Hung the quarter again and marked out my cut lines. Made...
...you'll never get at an amusement park!
As stated above, tire pressure is a biggie, especially on an unsprung axle; like on some generators, welders, tow dollies without a car on it, and cheapo home-built jobs. Too much, and your trailer will bounce like a toddler on a sugar high. Guaranteed.
I'm looking to buy a car hauler trailer. I have a habit of finding derelict or classic cars and have rented dollies and trailers for far too long.
There are a LOT of options so I am trying to make sense of all of it.
I will be towing with my 2007 Ram 1500 regular cab 2wd truck. Maybe on rare...
Years ago a friend had a similar situation with a '58 hardtop we needed to get out of a farmer's woods. At that time Uhaul rented wheeled dollies where you would place the front wheels of a car up on the dolly and tow the car. We dug out an area in the front enough to get a hydraulic jack in...
Any trees less than 4 inches will go if need be. I was actually wondering about using a dolly in the front and in the rear, with ratchet straps holding them for synchrony.