Thanks to all my friends here. Here's a garage update first, and then I will resize some stuff for the car. Busy week this week, so I'm glad I'm at least trying to get my body off the chassis.

I have an I-beam with a chain hoist in my garage, that the previous owner installed. I found out today, that he has steel beams that built the Empire State Building (j/k), but the trolley was only rated for a 1/4 ton. I bought a 1 ton trolley today, and made a bracket to adapt it to a Chinese Warehouse (Harbor Freight) electric hoist. I bought all of this to hopefully lift the 1932 body off the chassis, but as of 2200 tonight, I had to give up. At least the hoist is in place.

I finally bought a bench vise to work with.



Electric grinding wheel and wire wheel too...



Here's the old 1/4 ton trolley that was up there. To think I lifted my car trailer up with this.



Here's my new 1 ton Chinese Warehouse trolley. Can't use that hook attachment though....



Chinese Warehouse electric hoist. For $169, you can't go wrong, unless it fails.



Steel plates for new bracket. Have to make it a two piece deal, so I could hang it back on the trolley. You'll see.



Had to make 1 1/4" holes in vertical pieces to put the shaft from the trolley in.



I'm glad I have an 1 1/4" hole saw.



The drill press I bought for $50 back in 1995 works great for this.



These magnets work great for holding steel for tack welding.



I used a big C-clamp to hole the trolley together while I took off the nuts and some washers.





Here's the new brackets installed that I need for clearance and to mate the hoist and trolley. I don't think you can buy this off the shelf, so I'm glad I have a welder.



I'm trying to lift this body off with the hoist, but I finally gave up tonight. I will be on it tomorrow afternoon again. I'm going to let the air out of the tires to give me more room or even take the wheels off and set the rotors/drums on moving dollies I have. When I raise the hoist, there's too much slack in the straps and it hits the safety stop before lifting. Oh well, this is Hot Rodding!!!