Yeah I searched and if any of you want to whine and cry that I did not search good enough go ahead! I know there have been a couple threads on here about making a tool that attaches to your engine hoist and can be used to lift your cab up in the air. Do any of you have these threads bookmarked or know how to make the tool? Most of them consist of a 4x4 going from door opening to door opening. The danger I would think would be the cab shifting forward or back. I am hoping to read up on it before I go make one myself. Thanks in advance!
yeah, do not think that would work with mine. I am trying to figure a way to get the cab in the air...then i can drag the old frame out and roll the chasis I am going to use underneath it. Seems easier then moving the cab around and putting it on the other chasis.
I got a couple of old camper jacks and made an angle iron bar for each side that goes between the latch plate holes and the lower door hinge bolts. One piece that goes across and another welded on that goes down to pick up the lower holes. The jacks work for cabs and beds. A real labor saver. No other help needed.
Get 4 short chains and bolt them to the floor on each four corners INSIDE the cab, bring together at the top. Stick your cherry picker through the side window and lift! This is how a get my A coupe on and off by myself.
I have the four cab mount holes. I was thinking of putting some bolts through there and then using chain to connect together at the cherry picker and lift. I am pretty sure that is the route i will go. My lower back is shot right now so inviting friends over and lifting it does not sound like fun right now.
it was a pivot on the end of the engine hoist. then a 2x4 (steel or wood) attached so it would fit under the window openings with the center of the 2x4 attached to the pivot on top of the end of the engine hoist. so you could lift it level if you possitioned the 2x4 properly front to back.
Got any kids? Neighbors? Friends? For the price of a few beers and tolerating some tire kicking, you can have that cab off quick and cheap.
Motorbreath is right on his description. I did this exact same search a couple of days ago and found some excellent pics. Damned if I can find it again though! I know one of the examples was by ****os garage, another by TagMan ?... I think. Hope this helps.
Check out this one I did a while ago........................ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172723&highlight=lifting
I guess my memory isn't that bad yet! TagMan your lift is awsome. I will be making one before I move my cab again. Last time I bent the rain gutters a little....pissed me off! Any ideas on how to stand the cab on the firewall to finish the bottom by myself??
I did that alone too. I jacked the back of the cab up with a floor jack and put blocks under it, repeat until it's near the balance point and ease it down from the front....watch your feet....
Black Primer be careful setting a cab on the firewall. I done this to a 70 chevy cab that was stripped completely.I just grabbed the bottom of the cab with my hands and slowly rolled it up onto the firewall. It worked out great,I went in the house to grab a beer and when I came back out the cab had rolled onto the front section of the top,and yes there were dents(@#$%##). I should have braced it .
There was a kit that I saw that bolted to your wheel studs to put your car on it's side. Should be able to do something like that with a cab where you make a brace that bolts to the cab mounts and then is either curved or a set of faceted braces to roll it up on it's front or rear. Maybe 20' of pipe or tubing and a welder and some flat plate drilled for mounts...just an idea.
If you have a sturdy garage with open rafters, you can do what I did. Get some good quality ratcheting hold down straps, string them over your rafters (maybe use a 6x6 laying perpendicular to your rafters and sting them over this), connect them to a secure mounting point on the body and ratchet away. I used some saw-horses and a couple of longer 2x6's under the body just in case but I didn't have a problem. It beats jacking it up and blocking it little by little.
hehe...i would have my friends help me but getting them to help is worse then pulling teeth. I normally have my son (20) grab some friends and that is what I am hoping to do this time. Otherwise, we will make a lift setup and do it that way. thanks a ton for all the help@
I used this setup when I swapped the fibergl*** hi top roof over to my van that will end up being my tow rig. I used the cherry picker on the front with a strap and the a frame engine hoist setup that I used to swap engines before getting the cherry picker at the rear with another strap. I lifted the roof off the van in the photo, rolled it back out of the way and put the other van back under the roof and set it back down. I swapped frames under my 51 Merc in pretty much the same fashion. The neighbor up the road stacked up pallets high enough to put a large wood beam across them and pulled the engine out of his semi in his driveway a couple of months ago. So where there is a will there is a way. I found this on the yahoo flathead forum today. I think it is just what your were asking about. http://groups.msn.com/FordFlathead1...terproject.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=4685
Why does this seem so hard? A piece of 2x4 or 2x3 metal cut to the correct lenght with angle iron welded to the ends to act like claws to catch under the sill areas works perfect. With the doors open. The lenght has to be that the support is about 1/3 back from the front windshield to center the cab weight, then the mount is centered to bolt to the engine lift (cherry picker). Lifts the cab perfectly each time with each time you use it. I have lifted off over a dozen cabs off frame with only one person present for the operation. Shux, with the correct support tool, the end user could be totally wasted (probably), and still remove the cab by themself safely.
it does not seem hard. I just wanted to see how they attached it to the cherry picker mainly and to see if I was doing anything wrong. I would rather be safe then sorry and get someone hurt. I ended up running bolts through the bottom and attaching tiedowns to it and to my cherry picker. one person was on the cherry picker and two on the cab. we spun it around and in five minutes it was on the new frame. It was simple and easy to do.
Ouch!! I don't want that! I'm finally getting the dents worked out of my roof. I was thinking of clamping it to a pallet with wheels so I can roll it outside for sanblasting.
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