Car rotisserie for a 65-66

[Skyes 66]

I just got the key and the title in the mail today. Now I just have to finish the barn (pour the concrete floor, run electrical, run air lines and close the fourth side in with garage doors), should have that all done in the next three weeks. I've had to do alot more to the barn than I thought I would have to (just to be able to work on the car in it). I wounder how much extra stuff I will have to do to the car. Now on to the Tech part of this thread. I was going to build a rotisserie to make it easier to work on the car. Does anyone have one? What do they use to turn it around and around (bearings) or just one pipe inside another (pictures would be great)? Also if anyone has pictures of how it mounts to the frame.

 

[danny clemens]

Some have pipe inside of a pipe and some have bearings. I have heard of some rotisseries using spindles and hubs for the pivot point.

 

[69scode]

Rotisserie drawing

I have drawings and pictures of the one I built. E-mail me for information. I don't have a web site to host this stuff.

 

[Henceforward]

My freinds dad built one with pipes inside of pipes, and angle iron welded all together.

I'll snap a few pics later if you need 'em

 

[1320stang]

I have heard of some rotisseries using spindles and hubs for the pivot point.

This was what I was going to do. I had to replace a front hub on a '94 Chrysler LHS, it still looked pretty good to me, so I hung onto it.

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But then I came across this for $500 used on one car:

Here are some of my mockup parts for putting a FE in this car, a Jerico tranny case and tailshaft, junk now, you can't see the crack, but the lower hole on the tailshaft housing is busted out and from the bottom opening up thru the hole on the case is busted up to the hole for the shaft. The pan is a full wet sump pan with windage tray and crank scraper. The pan is dented up a bit, the 427 block it was on lost a couple rods and bent it up a bit. The block ended up with cracks from the mains to the cam bearings on #2, #3 & #4, I have this block in my garage as well. I just need a scattershield so that I can get motor plates to mock this thing up in my car. I plan on moving it as far back to the firewall as I can.

 

[Skyes 66]

Thanks for the posts guys, thats alot of help. BTW the key that the previous owner gave me did not work. So now I have to take out one of the door locks and take it to a locksmith for new keys. I am now 95% done with the electrical on the barn/shop and hope to finish up with it and get the air supply lines in by next weekend and then concrete.

 

[LUCAFU1]

i got my autotwirler last week and put it together and painted it last week. its great. even if i did build my own it would not be as nice. nice thick metal and welds with very good penetration. its really a good investment.