RE: vehicle dollies

[Richard Broughton <richard.broughton@domain.elided>]

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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:39:51 -0400
From: tobrien@domain.elided
Subject: Vehicle Dollies

"Has anyone found a good way of moving a vehicle (in this case, my Spider)
around when the axle has been removed - instead of just resting the body on
jackstands?  I was thinking of buying some heavy-duty casters and mounting
them to wood blocks."

	When we needed to move our TI out of the garage to clean and prep
the underside after we removed the rear axle, we built a wooden I beam by
nailing 2 2X10's face to face, then nailing a 2X6 to the top and bottom
edges to form the beam. With the car on jack stands, we slid it under the
car and placed it on a floor jack. Jacked the beam up so that it picked up
at the rear jacking point, removed the jack stands and then lowered the
jack. With the rear of the car sitting on the I beam, which was in turn
sitting on the floor jack, we could, very gently , pull the car out of the
garage. If your floor jack has swivel casters like ours, you can actually
steer the rear end as needed. You have to be very gentle as you don't want
to knock the car off onto the ground, but it wasn't any trouble to move the
car around this way. If you attached heavy duty casters directly to the
beam, I would think you would have even better control. Total cost was under
$20 for the lumber. Hope this helps.

	Richard Broughton
	1966 Giulia TI
	Columbia, SC

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