MG MGB and MGB GT Tech Talk
Once EVERYTHING is unassembeled and on jack stands, has anyone come up with any creative way to move it around from say a garage to teh painters, etc?? Or is a rotisserie the best way. I plan on having everything completly stripped within about 2-3 months and before I put them on jackstands for the next little while, I wasnt sure if anyone had come up with any homemade wood, stell contraptions to make it ewasier to mover around the shop when needed?
I haven't tried it yet, but I bought 4 small, 4-wheeled dollies that I was going to sit the jack stands on, with car on the stands. That would allow moving the car small distance, I hope!
whats a piano stand? And I need to make a suggestion. There needs to be a spell check button so I can ensure I make sense. I suck at typing and I end up butchering the whole thing. Oh and any PICS also.
the 4 wheel dollies will work for very short distances as long as the surface is smooth we tried that at work once with an oldsmobile with jack stands on some 4 wheel dollies darn near lost it
Bryanm362 Wrote:
What I did was remove everything but the front and rear suspension, took it to the paint guy on a regular trailer. Once I got it there he removed the 4 bolts holding the front crossmember and the bolts holding the rear end in place. I went back and picked up the suspension brought it home, cleaned, painted and rebuilt everything. When the paint was done I brought the suspension back to his shop and we rebolted everything back in place and put the rolling chassis back o n the trailer and brought her home for the reassembly.
Let your body guy worry about moving it around his shop, he should have dollies to move vehicles around and you won't lose the several months paint and body work can take. Additionally, it can be difficult to get a rotisserie on a trailer due to the height necessary to rotate a body and usually small wheels on a rotisserie.
What I did was remove everything from the vehicle except the front and rear suspension. Then I loaded the car onto a regular trailer and brought it to the body shop. Once there, we unbolted the 4 bolts and removed the front suspension and thebolts for the rear suspension. Put them back on the trailer, brought them home and disassembled, cleaned, painted and rebuilt everything. When the car was done, we reversed the process and brought home a rolling chassis to reassemble.
I would let the body shop worry about moving the car around his shop, they usually have dollies, rotisseries and other equipment to do this job. Then you don't have to worry about buying, building, storing, etc of the equipment.
Also, the nature of a rotisserie makes it difficult to move on a trailer, it has to be high enough to rotate, which makes the center of gravity pretty high on a trailer. Generaly the wheels are pretty small and difficult to move on and off a trailer.
This also gives you something to keep working on while the body shop does it's business, which can be several months depending on howmuch work needs to be done and hw busy your guy is.
a before and after picture
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I just bolted a couple of 2x4 together and clamped them to a pair of wheel dolly's. I placed the 2x4 under the main spar of the car, which is pretty close to the center of gravity. With everything off the car it's pretty light, I can pick up each end and place the car on jack stands when I need my 2x4's... lol
If you want a pic let me know,,, but it's pretty pathetic lol