Lift usage question Options

[r_towle]

I have a drive on four poster lift.
I can't move the rails wide enough to pull a motor, and that is fine.

I have been thinking about building a harness that goes over the lift and using that to lift the car from above without the motor....so lift the car off the motor using straps looped over the lift.

Any engineers want to chime in one that?
It would create two point loads on the lift, but it would only be lifting the chassis, no motor.

Another benefit for me is I could then set the chassis on a table to roll to the paint shop.

I know I can do all this on the floor with jacks, but the up, down, up, down of pulling the motor gets old and with the new motor I am putting in, I want to devise a simple way to pull it out frequently as I tune it up....cause there will be no room with the 8 cylinders to do much of anything to the valves except smile at them.

Rich