The entire assembly will be much more stable and will not move when you push on the car! Non-imgur links will be considered on a case by case basis. When you push one end left, the other end will move to the right unless you have a helper holding that end. There is a practical limit, but we have never found a car that would not fit!! Do not roll the legs without any stabilizer bars connected to them. If you went through the trouble to do a full pen bevel weld, your welds will be stronger than the steel itself. Not to mention more warping during welding making them hard to use. The Auto Twirler Elite is the original and most popular rotisserie for many years. Roll the jack to the other end and remove those in the same way.
A heavy-duty car rotisserie holds up to 3,000 pounds - enough to support a complete vehicle. We realized that unbolting the caster wheels is tedious and would never happen, so we designed our wheel bracket system to be simple and easy. I barely trust it to hold up an engine. I have a 2x4 under the front of the block on one of those right now to keep that from happening. Structural work needs to be done on a flat surface with the tub supported by the suspension pick-up points. An even bigger problem we saw was, after you completely restored your car body fresh paint and all how were you going to put it back on the frame? The legs were built to sustain the force of an impact wrench, so if you have one go ahead and use it.
Todays impressions are that you can really see where they cut corners. Another good reference for this is all the on this website and the instruction manual. The reduction ratio is 40:1 and effort is very reasonable to rotate the body. My boss and I decided we needed a rotisserie in the shop. There are way too many variables involved for me to give hard dimensions on the hoop hook up procedure.
If you really want 4 swivel caster wheels, that is how we will pack it, but our standard is to ship 2 swivel casters and 2 fixed casters. In the case like this picture, the car is already high enough off the ground to install the legs using the top peg of the legs into the main beams. Now I spend money to save time. I am using the term pinch bolt to indicate a nut welded to the tubing or pipe and a bolt which threads through that to contact an inner piece of tubing or pipe. It was a 64 full size Pontiac, I finally modified it so the arms that mount to the body dropped down to get the centerline of the car in line with the rotating head of the rotisserie. They really seem to cut corners with their steel alloys.
Another reason not often thought about until it is too late; smaller wheels do not lift the center bar of the rotisserie high enough off the ground and it will high center going up a ramp like into your enclosed car trailer!! Now to get the bottom side stripped and see how much of the floor pans need to be replaced. Like all products, rotisseries come a number of different shades and flavors. This is the end of the body lift assembly. Then install the main beam insert from the other side of the car. Then I would over engineer everything and get rid of those little angled straps and run some square tubing.
The additional weight and the only vertical ridge mounting location would be at the door hinges, using a piece of angle iron to get out past the edge of the front fender. This 750 Allemano spider is an alloy body copper riveted to a fiat 600 steel chassis. This is when you would want to use the bottom peg. The likely-hood of that column buckling under just 2000 lbs is very unlikely. We knew we would be upgrading these right away so they were never installed.
Everything else looks fine though. Standard is wrinkle black, but we can now offer them custom coated in any color you prefer. It is a small extra expense, but one that I believe is absolutely necessary. To complete the kit, you will need the following square steel tubing you purchase locally 30 feet of 2. Both sides assembled and together And that is as far as I got today.
The hoop connectors act as a natural stop to keep the car from rolling. Note that the car is upside down. No single piece is longer than 48 or weighs more than 35 lbs. Here is the formula for figuring out what size you need with your garage ceiling clearance in mind. Consider submitting these photos to instead. A quick tip is after welding the nuts, run a through the threads after it cools down. This type of drive allows for complete rotation without the need for a 'pinch bolt'.
I had to redo this thread because the first one had too many pictures! Because of the expense in paying someone to roll your hoops, I chose to show it in sections of square tubing that can be welded together. First I tried working on it using the engine hoist. I'll close with a self portrait. With these devices, you can move or rotate your car as needed for painting, sanding, dent removal and other projects. The stand I linked does not.