Maybach_Man

weve picked it up and moved it a lot of times, just the two of us

Imo000

Ahhhh now I get it!.....DOH

JHowell37

I had two fully charged batteries for my sawzall and an oxyacetylene torch. I cut off the roof, then cut it down the center, and then cut across. Basically, I cut it into quarters that could be easily handled by one person.

Imo000

Here are a couple pics of this old girl's final drive.

It went straight to a scrap yard. There really wasn't much left (besides the rear bumper) on the car.
However the pick up was interested to say the least. The driver decided to drag the shell out, while it was on 4 axle stands. That worked for about a foot, then the entire thing tipped over (bending 3 of the 4 stands). I told him I'll move it over with the hydraolic jacks but he insisted that he can do it with the winch. Since I figured he knew what he was doing, I didn't argue (maybe I should have but that doesn't matter now). To make things more interesting, the pulling hooks were only attached to the underside of the rear bumper cover, (not to the aluminium structure, just the urathane cover). If this wasn't enough, the flatbad was only tilted up (about a 45 degree angle) and was not lower to make the angle less teep. He kept insisting that the bumper will hold and I just kept my mouth shut. Either he knew what he was doing or he got extremly lucky, I think he was the later, but managed to pull the entire shell up onto the bad, at a 45 dgree agngle with nothing more than 2 hooks at the bottom of the bumper cover. I lifted the front up with my hydraulic jack to keep the bottom from scratching the floor.

After, the bed was lowered back onto the truck (the winch cable and hooks still attached to teh bumper), then he decided to pull the shell forward a bit. This is when the winch cable SNAPPED. Talk about a close call, 2 min before, it was holding a 928 shell that was pointing towards the sky. If the cable leg to then, the 928 "sled" would have went through the back of my garage. OOPS! To make things worse, the cable didn't just snap but the clamp that held it together let the cable slip out of it. The entire contraption was a mickey mouse job but at the end, he did manage to take the shell away. BUT not before leaving about a cup of engine oil and a pint of diesel at the end of my driveway......... Man on man.... what a moron.

BC

The bumperettes are bolted to the bumper BAR, THROUGH the bumper cover.

Thats how it held.

FBIII

It looks like the old shark got double gaffed on the trailer. A fitting end for a sizable fish.

Imo000

Ohh I know and you are right but the bumper cover is not really that strong. The hooks you see in the pic is what he used at the botom to pull it up. He never bothered to bring the bed down. All he did was tilt it up (too bad I didn't take a pic) and the bed was at least at a 45 degree angle.

You probably know how flatbeds operate. They tilt the bed up first then they slide the bed down, followed by pushing the bed down so the angle is probalby not more than 15-20%. He never went passed the first step.