Chassis Rotisserie

I found this rotisserie immensely useful when preparing the car each winter.   I don’t have the fixtures anymore (they went with the car)...and I don’t have drawings...but it’s pretty self evident and you should be able to figure it out if you want to build one.

There are 2 basic things you need to do to make a rotisserie like this:
1) Make 2 adapters that connect the engine stand mounting plates to the chassis.  One adapter for the front, one adapter for the rear.
2) Extend the vertical member of the engine stand enough to allow the chassis to rotate 360 degrees.

Adapters
What follows are the pictures of the adapters.  The picture below is the front adapter.  You can see that we picked up the steering rack mounting brackets on the chassis.

The adapter is a steel tube weldment.  The tubes we used were 2 1/2" and 2" square with .125" wall.  You could use almost anything you have here...as long as it’s relatively strong.

Here is the rear adapter.  You can see that we picked up the lower shock mounting holes and we created a U-channel to pick up the top cross frame tube.

The adapter is made from sheet steel with tube spacers welded to it as stand-offs.  As I recall, we made this out of .100 or .125" sheet.  Again, you could use what you have...as long as it’s strong.

Extensions
Sorry about the quality of this picture, but it’s the best I have.  Here you see the rear stand.  If you look at the bottom of the vertical member, you can see the extension we welded in.  As I recall it’s about 8" long, but you need to decide for yourself 

Here’s a picture of yours truly enjoying an additional benefit of the rotisserie....extra support in remaining vertical.

Rev. 6/8/02

Barry