Week #113

I got all the modifications done on the rotisserie so it was time to mount the car and see how it felt.

Before I raised the car for rotating and knowing I was going to be painting the underside, I had to tape up a few things to ensure no over spray would find it's way to the interior... and then the exterior... of the car. This involved taping up all the holes at the floors and trunk. I used duct tape for this due to the fact that the floor surface was not that clean and the duct tape was really sticky. I also added a little safety precaution to the doors. I secured them to each other with a rope. I really didn't think they could come open but why take the chance. The only thing left was to secure the hood... we don't want that flopping open now do we.

Things went pretty smooth as I put the load on the rig and took it off the castor frames I had made. The first test turning showed me that the car was mounted to a position that made it very top heavy... Simply put, I had the connectors to the car mounted too high on the pivoting cross bar. With my new bumper jack lowering/raising system, it took no time to drop the car back to the ground, adjust the mounts and raise it back up for another test. It was a great deal better, still a little top heavy, but way more manageable than the first time around.

When the car was on this rotisserie before it was just an ugly unpainted collection of nasty sheet metal... I never really worried about the possibility of it falling. Now things were a little different. Now, up on this "home-made-from-a-magazine-article" contraption, is literally hundreds of hours of work and thousands of dollars worth of body and paint work. It feels COMPLETELY different having it up there. All I can tell you is I want this phase completed and the car back on the ground!