Cab install jig?

[R&B51]

Fred N Ethel,
He was helping with my crummy pics, here's another attempt to send some better ones. This is a HF hoist and the end is just a little bigger than the receiver the hitch goes in on the truck, so took the hook off, slid the hitch in, cut a hole to match the pin from hitch or bolt already in hoist. Then this pic is wrong in that to use this, I flipped the ball upward (just took off my Bronco for this pic).
The frame upside down in pics from how you use it-is just a rectangle that fits across the level upper doorway of cab, I nailed cross braces on ends where it was centered side to side. The center brace has (3) 2x4's and center one has a few holes drilled front to back to allow the cab to sit level when pick up. I'm pretty sure I used the front most one. When you lift with hoist, it just sits level side to side and front to back on that one pivot point. Really stable and easy to move and position alone.
Cab dolly is long enough to tilt cab up on that firewall slant and prop up to work on bottom of it.
Again, these are all ideas I saw from someone smarter than me I think on this site.
We're all really standing on someone else's shoulders.

Should I be able to see the pics before sending? Just show up as "ATTACH..." files on the reply.

[dsraven]

you can click on the attachment after you upload (right where it says manage attachments) and it will open in another window/tab. you can see it and then close just that window/tab. dunno if it shows the pic as it will be shown on the site when you click submit, but you could try it. wouldn't be the first time a pic was upside down.

[Fred n' Ethel]

Hey COOL... a ball n' socket joint. I like it !
All the "safe" flexibility you would need.
Thanks for the details.
Kindly.

[Fred n' Ethel]

There is also a "preview post" button that should show your post with the attachments exactly as it will appear prior to actually posting.

[joedoh]

fellas, I have grunted and yanked around on my last cab

IMG_1086 by Joe Doh, on Flickr


side shift, 48" forks, all maintenance. my brother in law (soon to be knighted for this score) bird dogged me on it from his shop that just replaced it. I wish it was a pneumatic instead of a smooth tire but at the price, I am not complaining.

[mongocanfly]

nice score joedoh....now all you need is that 135hp that Doug's 4620 "forklift" has.....

[Advanced Design]

Great score on the fork lift! That would really be handy in the shop.

That 4620 is better outside.....just a little too big for easy maneuvering inside.

[MARTINSR]

This was the dolly I made for my cab. I the OP is talking more about lifting the cab but I thought I would post this being it's a great way to go IF you can for a dolly. Being my cab was being modified so much mounting it to a frame with the proper mounts to hold it was essential. I lucked out and got a frame that was cut up pretty bad and worthless, all but this area was wasted, so it worked out great! When I am done with it, I hope I can find someone who needs it, I would hate to have to cut it up and throw it away.

But my next endeavor is to make a cart of some sort that I can roll the cab up and off our flatbed tow truck (or a car trailer) and get it over to the sand blasters. The thing is, I can do that with this cart, but I need to take it one step further and that's make it be able to tilt onto it's back so the underside can be blasted. Then when it's back home or at the shop in the booth be epoxy primed under it and then tilt the cab back to it's normal position to be primed on the top side.

I am thinking of making that dolly out of 2x4s.

Brian

[roger55]

Originally Posted by MARTINSR

the OP is talking more about lifting the cab...

I dealt with that issue by having both a dolly and a table with wheels.
I just roll the cab off the dolly onto the table. Need 1 helper is all.

My good friend and neighbor (clay54 on this site) made this dolly for me:



The table was something my wife put together for moving plants inside the garage in the winter. I temporarily pilfered it and added the wheels:



Cab rolled on it's back on the table cutting all the rusted areas out:

[MARTINSR]

Yeah, I was thinking of a cart like the one your cab is on in the upper picture. Something like that with extensions going up holding the cab so that the underside can be blasted and primed without tilting it, thought of that too. But I am going to work on a long cart, about 8-10 feet long with a tilting portion in the middle. Using large wheels that way it can be rolled onto the tow truck easy.

it will be made out of wood so it will be pretty inexpensive.

Brian

[R&B51]

MARTINSR:
[But my next endeavor is to make a cart of some sort that I can roll the cab up and off our flatbed tow truck (or a car trailer) and get it over to the sand blasters. The thing is, I can do that with this cart, but I need to take it one step further and that's make it be able to tilt onto it's back so the underside can be blasted. Then when it's back home or at the shop in the booth be epoxy primed under it and then tilt the cab back to it's normal position to be primed on the top side.]

That is why I made my cart a couple feet longer (again, stole that idea) and did all you said-rolled onto trailer, to blaster and back BUT I cheaped out and used some wheels I had laying around-worked fine but they hung up on every crack and will swap out for bigger next use. Surprising how easy it is for one guy to just tip forward and prop up 45 degrees (has been enough for me sitting on a roll around stool) but on the AD cab would have to be longer to get vertical.

[MARTINSR]

I really want to make the thing so it will tilt with one hand very easily so the sand blasting dude can do it.

Brian