One man body installation

When your buddies are not around to help fit the body ....I came up with a simple way. No stress on the body. Had to weld a few lift lugs on the body frame. Takes 15 minute to set the body. Check out the pictures below.

Nice rigging and the speedy is looking great!
Can you give me a heads up on the super nice wheels,size,bolt pattern, tires etc?

Joe, I really look forward to your posts, every time you have some real creative and well thought out ideas and designs. You seem to have a knack of thinking outside of the box. Keep up the excellent work!

Nice Joe! You should have seen the way I did the one man body lift. I think there are some pictures on my build site. Almost dropped the body a couple of times. The final fit needed some friends to come over.

I'm actually going to drive my Speedster to work tomorrow! 70 degrees here in Seattle, and no rain, and it's October! Rain starts Tuesday though :(

Alan, The wheels 17x8 Boyd Cottington - Smoothie II 's. Bolt pattern is 5 on 4 3/4" with spline lug nuts. The wheels were made to order with a 5" back spacing. Almost went with the 10" wides for the rear. The wheels were only $265 each with shipping included. These wheels looked like exagerated Porsche wheels.
Chris , I am jealous. My car won't see the pavement until next spring. Kids have all sorts of activities this fall. I also may have to spend some time in the Gulf of Mexico. My companies assets were hit hard from the recent hurricanes. I'll post a cool picture of what just came all the way from Japan to the Port of Louisiana.

Alan - the tires are Falken 451 rears are 245/40ZR17 fronts- 215/40ZR17. I have disc rotors at all four corners. I purchased the rotors with the 5 bolt pattern from Ric Oliver of VW parts.com. They were $200 with the shipping. Small business with great prices. Here's our latest project. The ship beneath the platform is what the Navy used to bring back the US Cole back for repairs after the bombing.

Hey Joe, if you are in the Pensacola area, drop me a line, would love to meet up to talk about speedster stuff.

ps my wife is a great cook, it'd be worth you while:)

How do the kids feel about loosing their swing set for "the duration"? Seriously though, good thinking. I single-handedly changed outboards on a ski boat using a very similar method. 350 pound engine and just me. Be creative, but be safe!

I used the same type of chain hoist which was hung over a truss in my garge. I attached it to the truss right at the wall in the center of the garage door opening. Hooked up four straps, two into the holes for the heater slides, and two into the holes drilled for the rear mounts. My heart pounded as I balanced it while my 9 year old rolled the dolly out and then rolled the pan under. Even he looked scared!

Thanks for the info Joe !
I hope that you are planning on coming out to Carlisle 05!

Alan, I'm sure going to try. May trailer it from Illinois.

The hoist set I made up is three 2x6x8's bolted together with plywood between them making up a strong laminated beam and was set across the doubled up ceiling joists when the built the shop was built. The beam has a welded ring that is welded to a 5/8" rod through the three 2x6's and capped with a 8x8 steel plate. All that can be seen from the shop ceiling is the round eyelet and gets some strange double takes when seen with an engine or body hanging from it. I use an mechanical come along as it is slow and accurate to lower or raise up. I sat in the rear seat area of a speedster while I balanced and raised the body off of a chassis using my feet to roll the chassis away from the body.it