Lifting a Mini

#11

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:45:05 -0000, Ben C <spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> wrote:

Quote:

On 2007-03-04, Duncan Wood <newsto (AT) dmx512 (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:37:41 -0000, Adrian <toomany2cvs (AT) gmail (DOT) com
wrote:

Ben C (spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were
[...]
I don't approve of turning bicycles upside down to work on them, let
alone cars!

Why on earth not...?

Cos he's suffering from "jobst is a guru" syndrome?
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/upside-down.html

LOL, actually I didn't hear this idea first from Jobst, although perhaps
the meme originated with him.

It's fine, but given most of us don't have computers, don't have brakes
that moght be damaged & don'y have a workstand would appear to be a red
herring.

#12

Duncan Wood wrote:

Quote:

I don't approve of turning bicycles upside down to work on them,
let alone cars!

Why on earth not...?

Cos he's suffering from "jobst is a guru" syndrome?
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/upside-down.html

LOL, actually I didn't hear this idea first from Jobst, although
perhaps the meme originated with him.

It's fine, but given most of us don't have computers, don't have
brakes that moght be damaged & don'y have a workstand would appear to
be a red herring.

Ding. My bike gets turned upside down cos there's no other way of
supporting it. Who needs computers and who gets worried about a scuff on
the saddle?

--
Malc

"Bother!" said Pooh, and hid Piglet's corpse
http://farcanal.biz/

#13

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ben C <spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> saying
something like:

Quote:

Two or three people can
roll a Mini on its side (I've done this in a scrapyard, with the
scrapyard owner's assistance, in order to get access to the front
subframe, don't do it on your own Mini).

Or do it onto a mattress. We used to do it to Minis to get access to the
underside for welding, etc.
--

Dave
SE6a

#14

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

Quote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Ben C <spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> saying
something like:

Two or three people can
roll a Mini on its side (I've done this in a scrapyard, with the
scrapyard owner's assistance, in order to get access to the front
subframe, don't do it on your own Mini).

Or do it onto a mattress. We used to do it to Minis to get access to the
underside for welding, etc.

A pal with a garage business had some gadgets that bolted on to the hubs on
one side of the car. The car was then lowered on to these devices. They
were curved, and enabled two people to easily roll the car onto its side.
The gadgets prevented the side of the car hitting the floor.

They were really effective, and made welding repairs a piece of cake.

The guy that had them was really clever; I don't know if they were
proprietary or he had made them himself. He was certainly capable of coming
up with the idea. He made a fair bit of money after designing an easy
replacement for the water pump on Lotus Twin Cam engines as used in the
Cortina.

He also designed and made the first forked tool to enable the replacement of
valve stem oil seals on Ford Pinto engines. He sold the rights to one of
the big tool companies. I still have the prototype in my garage.

Chris

--
Remove prejudice to reply.

#15

Chris Whelan (cawhelan (AT) prejudicentlworld (DOT) com) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Quote:

A pal with a garage business had some gadgets that bolted on to the
hubs on one side of the car. The car was then lowered on to these
devices. They were curved, and enabled two people to easily roll the
car onto its side. The gadgets prevented the side of the car hitting
the floor.

They were really effective, and made welding repairs a piece of cake.

The guy that had them was really clever; I don't know if they were
proprietary or he had made them himself. He was certainly capable of
coming up with the idea.

I don't know when he came up with it, but one of the Moggy Thou specialists
has been selling 'em for years, and there's a German (IIRC) company usually
at most of the classic car shows with 'em, too.

Some bolt onto the hub, others bolt onto the bumper mounts.

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