Tilt a LBC body safely

[ag1234]

Hi Team,
       Found a homemade 90 deg. all-wooden tilt jig. Quarter-round x 3/4" plywood and 2x4" framework. Bolts on to frame/bumper stubs, on each end. Tilt body 90 deg.. or whatever you build it to. Put jack stand in 2x4"support notch, each end.  About $100. in materials ?   No need for elaborate/expensive, steel rotisserie. NOT suggesting this will support a fully loaded car ! Your results, will vary !   Radius is approx. 2 feet ?  This came with a Jensen parts car I bought.
                                                                          Good Luck.  Art.

[BlownMGB-V8]

Doesn't look like much to me.

Jim

[Roverbeam]

I don't think mine is elaborate or expensive...

Specs are:
Harbor Freight furniture dollies
2x2 box tubing
Some "nesting" round tubes, where OD and ID have about 1/16 clearance.
Some 5/8" box tubing to fit the Alpine's jack receiver holes
Some 1/2"-20 bolts to secure the frames to the bumper holes
Some notes:
My pivot location isn't quite perfect - you can probably deduce that I've moved the back tube once already. I think I lowered it too far, but whether empty or with the engine installed I can still spin it - I just need to use a prop stick in some orientations to keep the car from continuing to spin.
I thought I'd be clever and split the outer tubes of the A-arms so I could fold the frames for easier storage at some point, but it makes the inner tube bind more in the shorter outer tubes - probably not a necessay feature.
The A-arms need to be long enough to get the center of the pivot about 39" above the dolly surface so the car can spin without hitting the connector stick at the bottom (a 2x4 was cheaper/easier to use than metal tubing for that).
I cut all my tubing with a Harbor Freight 7 1/4" miter saw spinning one of the new-ish Diablo metal cutting carbide blades. These are a little messy in that they throw chips around, but it is a fantastic cheap small package that yields really accurate, clean cuts. Welds are with an import mig machine.
Couple of pics of relevant details included below.

Using rear bumper bolts and jack holes:


Front mount:


Front mount detail, again using front bumper bolt and jack holes:

[BlownMGB-V8]

That one at least I can see.

Jim

[ag1234]

For sake of simplicity/ visualization. imagine round wooden table top mounted to ends of body. Based on center of circle to cg. of body, will determine effort to "roll" body to desired angle.

[BlownMGB-V8]

Art. Surely it isn't that hard to take a picture. Your phone has a camera...

Jim

[Roverbeam]

I built a roll over cradle for a ~600# boat a while back. It's not nearly as versatile as a rotisserie, since it has to roll sideways as it tilts - I used my entire 2-car driveway to flip this 180 deg. It wouldn't work at all in my single-car working space. For the work I've done to my car, it's been flipped a couple dozen times, sometimes sideways, sometimes upside down, with no need to roll it outside and reattach wheels under it and roll it back in.

If you just have some simple work to do under a car, you have space to roll it sideways in your workspace, and you're pretty sure your cg and car weight aren't going to make the whole thing go over center and crash or roll the cradles sideways, then yeah the wood cradle is a great cheap one-or-two-time solution.

[88v8]

Or....

[Jim Stabe]

Haven't seen that picture in years and it still gives me chills