Mounting car body on rotisserie

[Lizer]

I'll be putting the body of a car on my rotisserie (it's a 78 Ford LTDII 2 door). It's not a unibody car. On the Torino forums, I read of one guy doing it and tweaked his roof when he went to rotate it. I don't want to repeat his issue (I don't know how he managed to do that). Do I need to have any kind of bracing inside to prevent this, or am I fine as long as I have it leveled out and properly set up?

 

[Chris_Hamilton]

All the support for all that weight is on each end so bad things can happen. Flimsy body and a lot of weight can make it sag. Bracing it would be the safe thing to do. I would also minimize the time it's on the rotisserie. Definitely don't do any panel replacement on one. Blast it or whatever you plan to do on the rotisserie and get it back on the ground supported at multiple locations before you do any structural or panel replacement.

 

[Lizer]

All panel work is done; it's a solid car, I just had to replace some of the floor pans. The entire underside has already been blasted, I just want to flip it on its side so I can do some finish grinding and painting on the underside.

 

[chevman]

All panel work is done; it's a solid car, I just had to replace some of the floor pans.

That is what makes the difference. You shouldn't need any bracing if its just the bare body.
For the Tri fives with a top none is needed on a solid car, this is typical bracing for a solid 57 convertible
As already said, bare body only. Extra bracing doesn't hurt, and doesn't cost much.

 

[shine]

thats why i build a frame rotisserie . never have to worry about it .

 

[Lizer]

A frame rotisserie would be a lot easier for me. Do you just use square tubing?

 

[dhutton01]

It only takes a few minutes to weld in some diagonal bracing across the doors and side to side.

Don

 

[shine]

A frame rotisserie would be a lot easier for me. Do you just use square tubing?

it is all heavy wall tuning . Sob weighs a ton . i built it this way because i did a lot of corvettes .