Can someone help with TTI headers and a 360 ?
This was an exercise that we discovered what we did wrong as we moved along.
I had made a dolly out of an inch thick board ( 24*27 inches) and 5 inches off the ground. I thought it would only carry a couple of hundred pounds.
So I put together this unit (36*36 inches) that I covered with 2*10s ..it is 5 inches off the ground and it can carry a tremendous amount of weight.
I am not sure how much an engine/trans and front suspension weighted but I knew it was heavy.
Two things we didnt consider was the width of the legs on the engine lift and the height of the legs. On the wider unit I was concerned with the stress on the tie rods . We had tied off the UCA to keep the rotors from dragging....but I was concened how the boards intersected in the middle of the tie rod. As well, there was no easy way of dropping the engine on the suspension with the large rig unless we placed it on the engine pullers legs (how to get it off ?) so we moved the suspension to the smaller unit, spanning the 24 inches width.
We placed 2 lengths of the 2*10s parallel to the engine puller legs. We put the cart on top of them and was able to push this cart close enough where we were able to place the engine / trans on to the suspension. And it held. We put a 2*4 to support the transmission do the headers wouldnt be bent. We rolled the cart off the 2*10s jacked up the car and rolled the unit under the car. We then had to jack this cart up again to place boards under the wheels so we could slide the engine lift back in to lift the unit on to the frame.
When we do this again, we will use a narrow cart that will be slightly taller than the engine lift legs which, in our case, is 8 inches.
This was an exercise that we discovered what we did wrong as we moved along.
I had made a dolly out of an inch thick board ( 24*27 inches) and 5 inches off the ground. I thought it would only carry a couple of hundred pounds.
So I put together this unit (36*36 inches) that I covered with 2*10s ..it is 5 inches off the ground and it can carry a tremendous amount of weight.
I am not sure how much an engine/trans and front suspension weighted but I knew it was heavy.
Two things we didnt consider was the width of the legs on the engine lift and the height of the legs. On the wider unit I was concerned with the stress on the tie rods . We had tied off the UCA to keep the rotors from dragging....but I was concened how the boards intersected in the middle of the tie rod. As well, there was no easy way of dropping the engine on the suspension with the large rig unless we placed it on the engine pullers legs (how to get it off ?) so we moved the suspension to the smaller unit, spanning the 24 inches width.
We placed 2 lengths of the 2*10s parallel to the engine puller legs. We put the cart on top of them and was able to push this cart close enough where we were able to place the engine / trans on to the suspension. And it held. We put a 2*4 to support the transmission do the headers wouldnt be bent. We rolled the cart off the 2*10s jacked up the car and rolled the unit under the car. We then had to jack this cart up again to place boards under the wheels so we could slide the engine lift back in to lift the unit on to the frame.
When we do this again, we will use a narrow cart that will be slightly taller than the engine lift legs which, in our case, is 8 inches.
