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Old 07-01-2005, 12:42 PM
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I have sold my wheels. The hood is off and the engine out and I am taking the bay apart to repaint it. I would still like to be able to move the car around. With out wheels I can't roll is or put it up on those wheel dollies. A rotisery is probably not an option since so much of the car is still together.

I was wishing that if the jacks stands were on dollies I could move the car around. Yet, I am guessing that would not be very stable and could real easily fall of the stands.

Any one got any ideas that would enable to move the car at least forward and backward so I could get it out of the garage?
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You can get dollies to sit under the frame rails and wont have any trouble. Block up the rail if you need more height. Call a rental center or go look. Maybe it will be a furniture dollie instead, heavy duty of course.
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or a fun way, go buy 3 more donuts:p
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two floor jacks do the trick
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The car theives in Bonx New York know well how this works... Personnally, I'm not sure... maybe dollies of some sort...

Why do you need to move it?
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We did 2 jacks under the rear frame rails and 1 under the front k-member.. Now if you dont have the k-member in place, use 2 jacks under the front 2 frame rails..

Not hard at all, we used 3 people just to be safe rolled it out of the shop and into a parking spot.
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just buy my stock rims for 50 bucks+shipping and then it will be real easy
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spare tires - you can find them at the junk yard for $5 each.
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Originally Posted by NOSjohn
spare tires - you can find them at the junk yard for $5 each.
I said donuts first! Hehe, just messing around... I moved my Charger with no engine/no suspension in it with a jack, moved the back over first, then the front (We were moving it across the driveway)...
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ya, but you didn't tell him to find them at a junk yard ! he probably thought you meant donuts at the bakery.
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Originally Posted by NOSjohn
ya, but you didn't tell him to find them at a junk yard ! he probably thought you meant donuts at the bakery.
rofl!!



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