johnd
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Oct 27, 2017 19:57:44 GMT
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As the title, anyone used a jig in a single garage? Any pics? How hard is it to get the car on and off Them
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Oct 27, 2017 20:05:36 GMT
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I built one. Very easy to use. Five minutes,by myself to get body shell off the ground and upside down. Including wheeling bodyshell on trolley 25m from storage garage to workshop....Can turn car over with pinkie finger. This is not necessarily the norm, as mine has the centre of rotation sorted out perfectly 😊
Don't know if you really have enough space in a single garage
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johnd
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Oct 27, 2017 20:31:49 GMT
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Thats my worry
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My mate fabricated one for a lancia dedra from some drawings he found online. Worked really well, cost about £100 in materials and was a godsend for the amount of welding a lancia requires, lol!!! The garage this was done in was quite narrow, the car had to be wedged up against one wall to open the door on the other side of the car. We did drop the engine /gearbox out and remove seats to reduce the weight before setting it up. Was worth all the effort and actually made more space for working. The amount of time it saved and the ease of repairs and painting I reckon saved months.
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There are a few on the market that will turn a vehicle within it's own width - this one will   and is sold by CJ Autos www.cjautos.eu/Standard_NBN_chassis_tilter_p/ct04.htmThere are others out there that will probably do the same job but I know that when I was researching the market a few years ago that very few would turn a car within it's own width |
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johnd
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Way out of my budget, I'm looking to pay like £150 second hand or make my own
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Way out of my budget, I'm looking to pay like £150 second hand or make my own Good luck with that - £150 might just cover the cost of the steel and the casters |
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johnd
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They pop up, i can pretty much get the materials free should i make one
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I made a very simple one last week for a GTI corolla I'm working on. I'm working out of a narrow enough garage (13 ft or so). The shell can be turned through 360 degrees in not much more than its own width.
If you can work on the car with any degree of comfort when it is parked in the garage, you should be fit to work on a shell on a spit in the same garage.
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johnd
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The garage in question  The car  |
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Should say i could remove all the cupboards ect while it was turned
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