Uber Cheap Body Dolly – New A Arms – Outside shots
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Having thought about, designed, and thought again about how to put a simple front body dolly together I finally just tried to “keep it simple stupid”. Ended up with a 2 x 4 and a couple casters.
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Obviously I would not recommend this without subframe connectors or with an engine/tranny but it works well.
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Complete shot of the dolly. I thought this would work fine and it really does. I figured I could move the car around and move the front end back and forth without issues. One thing I did NOT think of was Posi-Traction. It moves forwards and backwards just fine. But when you try to move left to right the posi makes it quite a challenge.
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Rolled out getting ready for media blasting the front clip. We have a local company that will come onsite and blast things. Hope to get this done in the next couple weeks.
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Rear quarter shot. Wish I had some different wheels/tires but at least these let me roll it around.
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Closer view of the front clip. Everything is really in pretty good shape and will simply be cleaned and repainted. I still have welded in the outer shock tower support here.
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Weird view – no front end.
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Rear end shot – old 57 Ford housing, a couple inches narrower than the standard 69up housing. Standard 27 Spline 9″ Posi with 4.11 gear. I traded off my old Nodular third member years ago. This should hold up for any thing I build.
Update 2015: Ended up swapping out ’57 housing for an even narrower one later on.
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Seems like everyone has to take this angle at least once during their rebuild so here it is.
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So if you lower the rear a couple inches or more, change the rear wheels/tires and add a front end and that is just about how I’d like it to sit. Hard to tell without a front end though huh.