At 06:10 PM 5/15/01 US/Eastern, frandrum@voicenet.com wrote:
>Another issue, if I dismantle everything and decide to take the car to a
paint shop for
>the spraying, how do I transport it without the front wheels? Without the
bonnet and
>engine the car seemed very light and easy to move about. Am I naive to
think that without
>all the front end suspension and wheels, two people could lift the front
end and roll the
>car wheelbarrow style onto a flatbed tow truck for transport?
One person can (barely) lift one end of the suspension/chassis without a
body tub in place. Those tires and steel components weigh a ton. If you
want to lift the front of the chassis with the tub in place with the
assistance of a helper, you'll need to be pretty darn strong. The body tub
itself is several hundred pounds by itself.
There IS a way to cheat though. If you want to wheel it around like a
wheelbarrow with the rear axle as the pivot point, you can use the physics
of leverage to aid your work. Fill up the boot/trunk with some extra
weight- say several hundred pounds of bricks or sand bags(even better). Do
that and you'll find the front end much 'lighter'. :)
-Vegaman Dan
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