Lifting car on to rotisserie

[DreamZproject]

Hey guys, just recently i have finished constructing my rotisserie, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get the car all the way up there!

We had a trial run today (and did it my dads way, which i thought was pretty dumb) and we nearly snapped one of the welds...

i understand that the car needs to be lifted up and no load to be put on either end until they are paralell to each other, but I'm just not sure what

is the best way to get it up, as well as an even safer way to get it down once i'ts had thousands of dollars of paint put on it...\

What do you guys use?

[benny]

i used an engine hoist for one end and muscle for the other(had a spare set of hands)... Its freakin heavy and painfull to do anyway you look at it.

[KatoKid]

Is it a completely bare shell? If it is you should be able to do this in your own. The front end is really light and you can lift one handed, the rear is much heavier. If its not a bare shell then forget it and get help.

 

I used stacked 20 litre drums, at each corner and went up one drum at each end at a time. You can lift the shell and use your feet to slide the drums underneath. I had the car sitting on two drums at all 4 corners and then had another stack of 3 drums sitting ready to go....lift whichever end your attempting.....kick the 2 drum stack out of the way and then slide the 3 drum stack in.....repeat on the other side and lower down...take a breather and then do the other end.

 

Once I had the shell sitting on 3 drum stacks at each end it was pretty easy to shim with bits of timber to the correct height and then slide the rotisserie stands on.

 

 

[zzzzed]

Engine crane is the way to go.

[Retro Z]

I used a engine crane and lifted each end onto a shopping trolley i found at the end of my street.. because of the slope of the trolley i was able to do it one side at a time by myself with the engine crane and some planks of wood and those wind up jacks to get it where it needs to be.

[1600dave]

I used a trolley jack at either end (and random bits of wodd and stuff when the trolley jacks ran out of "lift"), and just pumped it up a bit at a time. My rotisserie had "safety" locking pins, a bit like the pins in axle stands, that would ensure it would only fall a maximum of a few inches in the event of a disaster (falling off the jacks) so I would jack it up till I could move the locking pin to the next hole, moved the pin, then jacked some more.

 

Or as mentioned, 2-3 people will easily lift it by hand. Lift it up, put it on stands / blocks / whatever at the correct height, then bolt the rotisserie onto it.

 

Getting it down I'm not so sure about, it's still on the rotisserie after quite a few years 

[DreamZproject]

Jeepers i thought the way we were doing it was a bit dodge!

Ok, this gives me more confidence. Luckily the area i am using to do up the car is under a car port, and we have a couple of beams that

nearly line up with structural point on the car, so i think we'll winch both ends at the same time, and then whack it on.

I have a decent amount of components on the car still (basically everything underneath), so by hand isn't an option. I like the idea of an

engine winch... but i don't have one.

 

Man some of the stuff we do is ghetto!

[Retro Z]

Supercheap Auto sell Block and Tackle sets for around $30 iirc which will do the job nicely.