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Posted by: Perry Kiehl Clone Oct 27 2016, 02:11 PM

8 years ago I drove over to Kyser, WV to pick up this frame bench, it was about a 1500 mile 3 day banzai run. A little rough, but something to build on.

It had been sitting in another building of mine and we've done some cleaning and moving to make the space for it and the project on the rotisserie. This thing is big and h e a v y!

We've take the casters off the left side to clean them and glue the poly tires on the aluminum wheels.


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Posted by: Perry Kiehl Clone Oct 27 2016, 02:20 PM

The casters have ball bearings in the swivels, and roller bearing on the wheel shafts. They were totally gunked with dead grease. So we totally removed and disassembled the casters.


Sorry for the blurry pic. The brake was rusted to the point of not working


The poly tires were loose and wouldn't stay on the aluminum wheels






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Posted by: Perry Kiehl Clone Oct 27 2016, 02:28 PM

There are two leveling adjusters that were a little stuck. We had to resort to the acetylene torch, the little propane torch wasn't enough


Anyone got a 2 3/16" wrench??


You can see the witness marks left by my 2 3/16 socket. This one wasn't too far down the thread, so we could use the impact. The other adjuster was bottomed out, so it took a 18" adjustable wrench to loosen it; a 16" isn't big enough

Posted by: whitetwinturbo Oct 27 2016, 10:19 PM

serious bench

Posted by: r_towle Oct 27 2016, 10:53 PM

Cool, I am still in the lead. 8 years and you are just cleaning up the frame bench I got plenty of time.

Posted by: rick 918-S Oct 28 2016, 05:28 AM

Posted by: 11tenths Oct 28 2016, 09:34 AM

I've got those same jackstands under my project.

For three years.

- Harry

Posted by: sixnotfour Oct 28 2016, 12:56 PM

Perry , judging by your pallet shelves you must have a fork lift..
I was lucky to get a UNIC strong arm lift with my caroliner bench,,
and ya Ive had mine for a few years .. did a bunch of pulls on my six though.


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Posted by: Mueller Oct 28 2016, 01:13 PM

Am I the only one that sees some humor in the fact that you have to restore and fix the bench before you can in order to restore and fix a car.

Can you get new rubber for the wheels? What kind of adhesive are you using?

Posted by: rick 918-S Oct 28 2016, 01:48 PM

QUOTE(sixnotfour @ Oct 28 2016, 01:56 PM)

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Oct 29 2016, 06:44 AM

I have a early 70's Hyster H25E which has been a little tank since we got it in 1989.

Mike, I did a cursory search and couldn't easily find tires for the casters so I got a flexible 1 part adhesive that's a lot like "Shoe Goo" It seems to have worked pretty good.

Posted by: skier2.0 Nov 26 2016, 11:24 AM

Brings back memory's,I was a Blackhawk distributes in the NE in the 90's. The best way to repair a car on the bench (Blackhawk or Cellette) with fixtures. Do you have the cross beams? or the pulling arm?

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Nov 26 2016, 06:00 PM

I have three cross beams, and 40' of 6" x 2" U channel to make more cross beams. I'm also building fixtures. I don't have a pulling arm. I don't intend to be using it for collision repair.

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 01:51 PM

Four frame stands are the starting point. I went back, forth, and all around on how to to this. I used 2 x 6 U channel, which isn't really flat on the top, but I was able to get the stands to level out. I didn't want to make it this wide, but this has worked out well.


Although rusty on the right long, and hell hole, as well as a tap in the door post, this 6 chassis is perfectly straight at all the measurements.




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Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 01:58 PM

More of the right side

Front pinch weld clamp



Both sides




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Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 02:05 PM

Left and right railing arm mount brackets

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 02:10 PM

Rear shock tower brackets

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 02:14 PM

Rear cross member bracket







I made the cross bar removable for access

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 02:17 PM

Next on the build list is a cross member for the frame bench, and then brackets for the steering rack mounting points.

Posted by: 76-914 Feb 8 2017, 02:20 PM

That's very nice. There were some hours invested, eh?

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 8 2017, 02:28 PM

Sorry about the low res cell phone camera. Yes, lots of time.

Posted by: cary Feb 8 2017, 08:26 PM

Well done ...................

Posted by: gms Feb 8 2017, 10:53 PM

looks nice and solid!

Posted by: Mueller Feb 8 2017, 11:23 PM

Very committed, I like it!

Posted by: 914Sixer Feb 9 2017, 06:25 AM

Looking good

Posted by: jd74914 Feb 9 2017, 09:06 AM

Looks great!!

Posted by: Jeff Hail Feb 10 2017, 12:51 AM

Must be 9-10 years since I spoke with you Perry. I called for Porsche parts and get the needle point store. At the moment it seemed odd and a bit funny. Thanks for those pieces I needed.

When you go to replace those casters go here. (and you will).

http://www.castercity.com/pwic.htm#Table - Casters

Posted by: Perry Kiehl Feb 10 2017, 06:55 AM

Thanks Jeff. ::

Posted by: Vysoc Feb 10 2017, 07:18 AM

Great web-site for Caster's!!!

Thanks, Jeff

Vysoc

Posted by: rick 918-S Feb 10 2017, 12:09 PM