[Drew W]

Guys,

Is ther a way to SAFELY mount jack stands onto wheel dollies so I can reposition my car in the garage. I want to be able to move it to the center when I'm working on it but move it to one side when I'm not so that my wifes RAV4 will fit.

tnx
Drew

[72LuxuryLeMansLa.]

Seems to me that the safest way would be to weld jack stands to 1/4" plate with heavy duty casters. Better make sure that the casters can handle the weight and have locking mechanisms on at least two per stand.

[Drew W]

has anyone done this?

[RS72LEMANS]

Here is what I use in my shop. Ive held up diesel trucks with these things and never had an issue. and they roll easy enough its almost scary. Its best to have a spotter to keep from slapping the wall when rolling them around its a 2-3 man job unless your just rolling a few feet. then can do it by yourself
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MRM-M998002/
They do however tend to snag on rocks and little nuts witch can spin your car the wrong way unexpectedly

[bulletpruf]

Originally Posted by Drew W

Guys,

Is ther a way to SAFELY mount jack stands onto wheel dollies so I can reposition my car in the garage. I want to be able to move it to the center when I'm working on it but move it to one side when I'm not so that my wifes RAV4 will fit.

tnx
Drew

Am I the only one that thinks this sounds dangerous? I use wheel dollies myself, but am guessing that your car is on jackstands now w/o wheels and tires and you don't want to put wheels and tires on it and drop it down on wheel dollies every time you want to move it. This is a pain, but it's safe. No chance of the car moving off the wheel dollies.

However, if you were able to have some sort of rolling jackstand setup, it just seems to me that it would be very easy for the car to fall off the jackstands, esp. if a wheel catches on a rock or a crack, or if you have to muscle it to get it moving - - I've been using wheel dollies for years and find that the cars often don't move too well, esp. if the wheels aren't lined up right, so sometimes you have to put your weight behind it to get it going.

I'd leave the wheels and tires on the car and use wheel dollies. If you don't want to spring for wheel dollies, you can use the jack to move the car (jack it up 1" off the ground and pivot it or roll it on the jack), but that's not too safe, either.

Good luck,

Scott

[Sirrotica]

They showed making them on one of the Power Block shows on the Speed channel a couple weeks ago. Basically they made a rectangular from from angle iron put heavy casters on it and welded it to the bottom of the stands. It didn't seem like a wonderful idea to me and they never actually showed them moving a car around on them either. I can see this on a car that your building a chassis for and there are no wheels to use for moving it around, just seemed like a scary idea that could go wrong pretty easily.

[Drew W]

I'm giving up on the idea. Thanks for all your input.

Drew

[oakster]

The thought of doing this scares me too. Jack stands don't have anywhere near the contact as stability of a wheel dolly, plus there is a lot further for the car to fall if it slips.

Speed channel was crazy to show that, think of the liability...

[Paul E]

I have stacked two tires (on rims) on there sides on top of wheel dollies. This has worked well.

Paul