So we need a fold up Body dolly and attachments etc etc etc!!

Well as we worked out earlier, no more room.. so, the body dolly when not in use ,would need to be stored out of the way.I thought about it for a while and having found a lot of body dolly plans on the net, decided to  as usual, build it in steel and make the legs be able to fold away, so I could store the the whole unit and still get two cars in the Garage when all was done...

This is a pretty standard frame shape for a C2 or C3 body

just consult Noland Adams Body Dolly lift work book, anyway he makes it in wood.

Wood and I don't get along , I find it hard to weld

So my box of goodies to modify the basic design

Well, its about half way done,a few more wheels and we got a nice strong body Dolly.

The body will be living there for at least a year or so, by my reckoning and

I want to be able to move it back and forth to the painters and such without any problems.

The finished dolly, stored away up in the roof line, where it will live

in the dark distant future when all the cars are finished........ha ha

The next problem, now that I have a dolly to put the body on, is to get the body off  The fact that I cannot get enough height to use the lift strap kit from Zip, which I bought and then worked out it would be useless for me, Is that a single point lift from a hoist, means I cannot change the sling length enough while Iam lifting to get the body to lift dead straight. So after spending a lot of time looking at the old photos of the Corvette production facilities and the way they lifted the body on and off  I decided do make something  sililar but with a movable centre of mass device that I could adjust on the fly, much like the engine lift  arms .

This is what I am trying to duplicate

Here are the bits to start making my version of it.

This is the centre of mass unit before the arms are attached.
The nut on the left, drives a T nut up and down the slot,
an eye bolt screws in the the top of it and is attached to the hoist

Thats the main spider constructed, attached to the gantry hoist, next I need arms to attach to the spider

The finished body crab attached and ready to lift on the left, away we go on the right

It worked a treat , luckily I had my technical advisor on hand,

Lexie gave it the wag of confidence and we were away !!

So that gets us to Chassis this side

Body the otherside, I guess Pearl is having an out of body experince for the next year or so!!

Stay tuned more to come!!