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How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Ok, I dismantled my truck about 4 months ago to start the process of turning it into a 4wd, and now I have located a frame. After I get it sandblasted and painted HOW IN THE HECK AM I GOING TO GET THE CAB BACK ON????? I used my bro-in-law's deisel forklift to remove the cab, but now it's down with transmission problems. How is the most common way of getting these suckers back on the frames?
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
I use a cherry picker. Supposedly 4 healthy guys can do it. I just never had four healthy guys to do it for me when I needed it done.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
I lifted mine using the rafters in my shop. Then just rolled the frame under it. Think I tied the straps to the door strikers and the hinges. Not real sure about that.
You will need a few people on hand, just to man handle it. Problem with lifting it by hand is 1. there is no real good place to hold it. 2. you have to pick up and put it down several times if you have issues with the cab mounts. Be careful.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
I have reinforced the rafters just to feel safer with a couple 8' 2 X 4's then a strap thru the open windows around the cab roof. Alignment two guys can manage this way. Once you get the cab loosely mounted install the front fenders to insure you don't have the cab crooked or too far forward etc. Then snug the cab mount bolts. 1/2 " on one side throws stuff off. Noticeable with the bumper alignment.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Are you putting the cab back on the frame you took it off of, if so you will not have any problem with fitment of the front clip to the cab.
If you are putting the cab on a 4x4 frame the rear cab mounts are thicker than those of the non 4x4s. We always use the cherry picker method to remove and replace cabs, we got the idea from someone one on here. We have done 4 cabs so far and the method works great. On all 4 occasions we had the doors on the cabs. Danny
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
4 of us manhandled mine on. It was bare except the windshield and back glass.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
This was on another post here earlier.
http://www.lewisfabricationdesign.com/products.aspx |
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Two post lift ,here. It works great for cabs, beds, changing suburban and tahoe bodies. I also use it to lift and hold something while mounting it on the rotissere. Jim
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Here is a picture of my son's Burb body that we were setting back on the frame. We use two 1/2 ton chain falls hooked to reenforced rafters for lifting the bodies. One person can work the chain falls but with two it is a lot easier to align the frame to the body. System works for any car or truck body.
Jim
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
i used the crane on one of my work trucks....
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
I used an engine hoist/cherry picker with some pieces of angle iron bolted to the seat mount holes in the floor. I had my load leveler on the hoist also. The only problem was having to have a second person to help steady it while moving it around.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Sorry to go off topic but, Jimkshortstep4x4 you have to post some build pics of that burb over in the suburban forum for the rest of us. It looks like it is going to be gorgeous.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Engine hoist and a 4x4 worked for me. Especally if you doing it yourself with no help.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Pallet forks on a skidloader. works real slick but have done the straps around the roof. now i was told that you should NEVER put the strap through the windows of the doors. am i right or just nuts?
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
when i get to that point in my build i am going to use my backhoe i think that will get r done if you have a backhoe or a friend closeby with one
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Engine hoist here too.
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Join Date: Jun 2009
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Four of us lifted mine off and on. Really very easy took two minutes. Had the front and back glass but no doors.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Yes we had to replace the cab supports and reweld where the floor meets the rockers and we just turned it so we stood right in front of the cab floor which made it much easier.
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
Here is a pic of a cab setting on a trailer. A skid is used under the firewall to get the cab up in the air and straps are used to make sure the cab does not tip either way when working on it.
This makes repairs on the underside very easy. Jim
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
It took me and a friend to get the cab off of my c/10 and thats prolly how ill get it back on too but thats with nothing in or on the cab
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Re: How do you guys set your cabs back on???
I'm manhandled them and used a cherry picker.
Much easier with a cherry picker. |
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