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Getting fed up with the 'carb testing mule' occupying the lift and decided to go to Harbor Freight and get one of their bike dollies which are currently on sale for $79.99...then I could store the bike out of the way but easily wheel it out when needed....AND free the lift up for the Gen II winter mod wrenching season.... but alas, HF was out and wouldn't be getting more in till Thursday.

Much could change by Thursday and I didn't feel like waiting anyhow so I started looking around the shop for a Plan B. I spotted a little furniture dolly that I'd strapped a small generator to....after an hour or so of scrounging up scrap blocks of wood and obtaining the correct balance point I came up with this. It works great.

The dolly has a 1K lb. capacity, is plenty stable and you sure can't beat the price!

http://www.harborfreight.com/movers...zIjoiOC45OSIsInByb2R1Y3RfaWQi OiIyNzUyIn0=
 

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Looks like that'll work just fine. And the price is right!

Could probably by two of those and a couple 2x4 and make your own bike dolly that cradles the wheels.
 
gamorg02 said:
how do you get it on the blocks?
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Lock the front end down (or get someone to hold it) place a bottle jack just in front of the rear tire and jack it up....move the dolly in and out from the front till you get it set up to your liking. There was some extra screwing around cause of the Hindle 4 - 1 pipe but still pretty easy.
 
I use one of those to move my engine around out of the bike. Cribbing will make it stable on the dolly. if you're gonna put it into a truck bed still on the dolly, be-sure & secure it. (the engine alone)

Necessity is the mother of invention. I keep buying those diff sized dollys for projects, they are very useful.
 
looks good to me.....I got one of those dollies for moving car motors around...works great
 
I used a floor jack to park a '69 cutlass in my basement. Took a little manual labor and some patience to jack, push, turn, over and over again to squeeze it past the support posts and turn it 90 degrees and shove it in the corner. It fit though!
 
I built my bike on that before the side stand went back on. It worked alright but was kind of unstable.
 
Yeah, it wouldn't make a very stable platform for doing heavy mechanical work...you would probly want something with a little wider stance for that.

I always thought a lift platform would be a simple thing to build from a sheet of plywood and some 2x4's, pick it up with a floor jack. There were some 'how to' plans floating around here a few years ago on this.
 
Great idea BD! I used a furniture dolly and a 4x6 to strap the swing arm then with the front in the wheel chock (mounted in my trailer) to allow me to move the bike "around" the engine I was installing. It made it much easier since I was working alone.
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention."


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Northern Tool is closer too me than HF so I'm always on the lookout for their "Dolly Sale" which is pretty regular. $9.95 a piece and a $5.00 coupon off with $20 purchase so I buy two and a soda. I have five motors all on these moving dollies. As a side note, I can no longer lift a motor from the dolly to the bench top unassisted like I used too. Getting old. If I could weld, I saw an electricians wire cart that could hold 8 motors safely on one rack by sliding them into steel bars sorta like a motor tree I guess. Less floor space occupied.
Dollies save my back and makes organizing the shop/ garage much easier. Oh, that reminds me, time to organize the garage AGAIN! I hate having to do it but love it when it's done. Just got two new heavy dutywire rack units to help. Gotta free up floor space. Got a screaming deal on a roll on wheel chock stand I need to bolt to the floor too!
Does it ever end?
 
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