Healey Listers,
I have to move my cars around my garage in the anticipation of getting a
friend's Healey in to do bodywork on it.
Does anybody out there use car dollies in their garage to move Healeys or like
sized car around? I just bought four car dollies from Harbor Freight. Each
dolly has four cast iron wheels. Last night I placed my Cobra (same wieght as
my Healey) on all four and could not budge the car. I then placed the front
wheels on the ground and left the dollies under the rear. The car could then
be pushed but just barely.
I was under the (false) impression that cars could be easily pushed around the
garage floor with these dollies. I was careful and made sure that all wheels
were in the same direction too. I was leaning on the car super hard and it
took about 15 minutes to move it just 20 feet! Also, I may be fat, but I think
that I'm strong enough to move a car as I used to squat over 400 pounds. Well,
I wasn't expecting the old dry-ice puck from high school physics class but I was
expecting it to move much more easily than it did. Obviously there is a lot
more friction than with just the tires on the ground.
Therefore, my questions are:
1.)Do I have some cheapo dollies and others work better?
2.) Should I disassemble the wheels and grease them to reduce friction?
3.) Should I just flood the floor with water and leave the garage door open this
winter so that I could easily slide the cars around on ice?
Randy Dickson
Healey Archaeologist
63 BJ7
66 Cobra replica
02 Mini Cooper
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