Im frame off restoring a truck, how is the best way to built a body cart to move the cab while it is off the frame. Steel thickness, caster type. Or would I be able to make one from wood beams seeing as how light the cab is. If you have any examples please show.
head over to the Home Depot, grab some cheap casters, 2x4's, some screws, and whip yourself up a little cart
Most truck cabs don't weigh all that much so you don't really have to over build. I took a section of straight but junk truck frame to use to set my cab up on. some 8 inch dia wheels on one end and casters on the other with a channel crossmember front and back to keep it square. I can put it up on stands if I want to work on the lower part of the cab or set it on the wheels if I want to work on the top. I'm remodeling it now to put a screw jack off an old scaffold on each corner to be able to level it to make doing the modifications to the cab easier.
I QUICKLY made some saw horse like stands with casters on the corners. 8 casters, a box of lag bolts a few 2 x 4s, and about an hour is all it really takes. cheap, fast, easy, and easy to reconfigure when you need to do something a little different.
we built ours far overbuilt...but i like the idea behind it. we use the body mounting points for it...just a lil somehting other than that i think its pretty straight forward lol
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