Priya's 79 chrome bumper conversion project
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I've got it worked out with my husband. We've got a couple bags of sand and I bought a pair of snow tires for the back of the car. When we move the car out in the winter we'll lay down sand in front of the rear wheels and instead of backing the car onto the hoist (which is quite tricky with wet tires) I'll drive it in forwards. Part of this agreement was I was going to have the factory gas tank back in the car before winter so...oops? I don't think hubby will go for the winch idea as I'm not sure what we'd hook the other end up to, I don't think he'd go for hooking it to the hoist.
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The car weighs 3000 pounds. If it's a 10% grade you need a 300 pound pull to get it up that hill. Couple of bolts sunk into the cement on big Molly's would do the trick. Five or six hundred pound winch and it's probably going to be a 2000 pound winch would pull it up that little hill no problem.
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I'll ask my husband given what you've said. According to the 79 specifications manual the car is 3500 lb. I'm not sure what the grade is going up the ramps but I think its quite a bit more than 10%, perhaps a 30 degree angle?
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What do you mean hoist? Is there a lift in the garage that the tires sit on? That's something you probably want to pull the car up onto every time. Especially in your slippery neck of the woods. The back tire spinning is going to want to go sideways all the time. Got a pic of the Hoist or lift?
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What do you mean hoist? Is there a lift in the garage that the tires sit on? That's something you probably want to pull the car up onto every time. Especially in your slippery neck of the woods. The back tire spinning is going to want to go sideways all the time. Got a pic of the Hoist or lift?
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So that is another steep short climb. yeah I would put some kind of winch at the front of the garage instead of trying to finesse it up under power.
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Have you considered building a set of wood ramps, you could easily build them to step up thus eliminating the sudden steepness. My lift is a real SOB to get anything on as it drops off substance just out of the barn. I have stacked up 2x12's drive on now. Yes they can be a bit heavy if need to move out of the way so put handles on the sides for 2 person carry. You could build right up to the lift height or use lift ramps to bridge the gap.
Just a thought as it takes more winch than you think to move a car up a slope. You have to consider the lift will be in the way and the possibility of damage to frt of car from cable angle. I damaged mine(granted is was already wrecked) putting on and off a trailer due to ramps being too short.
Just a thought as it takes more winch than you think to move a car up a slope. You have to consider the lift will be in the way and the possibility of damage to frt of car from cable angle. I damaged mine(granted is was already wrecked) putting on and off a trailer due to ramps being too short.
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Have you considered building a set of wood ramps, you could easily build them to step up thus eliminating the sudden steepness. My lift is a real SOB to get anything on as it drops off substance just out of the barn. I have stacked up 2x12's drive on now. Yes they can be a bit heavy if need to move out of the way so put handles on the sides for 2 person carry. You could build right up to the lift height or use lift ramps to bridge the gap.
Just a thought as it takes more winch than you think to move a car up a slope. You have to consider the lift will be in the way and the possibility of damage to frt of car from cable angle. I damaged mine(granted is was already wrecked) putting on and off a trailer due to ramps being too short.
Just a thought as it takes more winch than you think to move a car up a slope. You have to consider the lift will be in the way and the possibility of damage to frt of car from cable angle. I damaged mine(granted is was already wrecked) putting on and off a trailer due to ramps being too short.
I brought up the cable puller idea with my husband and he didn't reject it. He said we once winched my Eagle in the garage like that when we were restoring it but I don't remember that.
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