how do i lift a body/cab

I'm getting close to re-isntalling the cab on my pickup, I would like to see ways people have used to lift the bodies up and position them onto the ch***is. I saw the earlier post about using camper jacks, but I don't have any of those, can I rent them from somewhere? I really liked the way that was done in this post. Is there a way to lift an AD cab using an engine hoist? anybody got any helpful words about any of this?
thanks in advance

 

Just get another guy and lift real hard. Maybe 3 or 4 are needed if you don't want to hurt yourself. Just take off the doors, interior stuff and get it as light as possible and you should be able to lift it on no problem. Another way is to wrap a chain/rope/tie down through the windows and run a pulley over your garage cross beam and its done.
Mike

 

When we did my brothers Dodge, we just used long 4x4's thru the door openings. I think we stood on milk crates, but it's been so long I can't remember.

Same with the bed too, I think.

I don't know if an engine hoist will raise that far, but anythings worth a shot. Just make sure all your "help" is sober...

Jay

 

gather up some buddies and lift it by hand.

the more the better and they don't have to be car guys, women, children even grandma can help.

Paul

 

If your all alone and have plenty of space (and time) you can lift it off yourself with nothing more than cinderblocks, 2X4s and a jack.
First off, I know, I know....Cinderblocks are prone to breakage. Use them at your own risk and NEVER get under something supported with them.....

(funny, I'm under my house right now looking at 8 feet of cinderblocks supporting the whole SHEBANG....but I digress)

Anyhow....Unbolt everything. Jack up one side and prop it up. Jack up the other side and prop it up. Fix it so that when your done the cab is raised a foot or so off the frame and supported by the 2X4s. Make the supports wide enough so that you can just roll the ch***is out from under it.
Since you're putting a cab on....its just the opposite of what I wrote above.

Done properly, its a 1 man job.

Hope this helps (don't blame me if something gets bent)... .

 

I made a simple attachment for my engine hoist that I use to lift these cabs by myself. It lays under the dash at the front and under the lip at the back below and on each side of the rear window. I added a stop at the dash end so that it can not slip out with the cab raised. In the middle of this attachment I added bracing and a point to hook it up to the hoist. I used the engine tilting hoists attachment so that I can balance the cab as I raise it up. The engine hoist will raise the cab high enough and you can easily move it by yourself. It is loaned out now or I would take a picture of it for you.

 

i didn't help, or even see it in action, although i have seen pix of the setup in use:

paul built a '41 chevy 2-dr sedan (not the lightest body around). took the body off the frame and put it back on by himself. drilled 4 holes in the floor pan, more or less at the 4 corners. of course the doors, gl***, deck lid, etc, were all removed. anyway, he put an eye-bolt in each of the holes with big fender washers under the floor. then he ran come along cables from the eye bolts up to the rafters of his carport. the front cables went up through the door openings (or windshield opening, i can't remember) and the rear ones went up through the deck lid opening. he just walked around and around the car ratcheting each come along slightly each time he p***ed it. pretty soon the bottom of the body was higher than the top of the tires. he then rolled the frame out.

obviously, the reverse puts the body back on.

 

Invite some non-motor-head friends over for pizza & beer. They'll giggle over the novelty of lifting up a car body.

Five guys helped me lift a '55 Chevy body, minus gl***, doors & trunklid. We set it on two 7' 4"x4"s, the ends of which rested on four heavy-duty sawhorses. This allowed us to roll the ch***is out from under it.

 

I lifted the cab off my '54 Chevy pickup using my engine hoist through an open door. I pulled the body off a Monte Carlo lifting it one end at a time using the same hoist and some blocks.

 

"They'll giggle over the novelty of lifting up a car body."

Civilians are a hoot!
Last year, I had to move a decrepit '32 5 window out of a house my parents were selling--they didn't want to pay taxes on my free $800,000 garage/parts dump anymore for some reason.
I went over with a rented motorcycle trailer, two friends, and my wife, and the new people in the house stood and watched for several hours as we almost silently stripped the car down to components and stacked it on the trailer. They were entranced and amazed--people are used to treating nearly everything around them as a black box beyond their purview!