Transporting a Carrier

SDeMocko · #1 01-12-10, 18:51

Carrier Community,

Now that I have my carrier stripped down to almost nothing, I needed to move it around. First to take it to work to weld up some large holes a previous owner cut in the tub and then to the sand blaster. I have seen where people have mounted car wheels to the carrier spindles but I had another idea. Maybe it has come up before but if you swap the front track tension adjuster brackets from side to side and use only two of the three studs you gain the ground clearance to use those as the other two wheels. I am not too worried about using only the two studs as my carrier is so light right now with nothing in it that I can push it around by myself. Even up onto a trailer with just one other helping me. Just thought I would pass the tip along in case anyone else could find it useful.

Stephen DeMocko
’44 MKII
Southern CA, USA

RichardT10829 · #2 01-12-10, 19:05

very good mate....i made a trolley to sit my tub on and took all the wheels etc off the hull.

just looking at your center bulkhead, are you going to leave it all one peice ie the square bits on the top corners are usually made from 8mm steel and the main bit is 5mm steel. the two squares are usually rivetted onto the plate ?

SDeMocko · #3 01-12-10, 19:42

Richard,
Yes I was going to leave them attached and then fake it by putting on the straps. I am very, VERY far from knowing all the ins and outs of these things but I couldn’t figure out the purpose of making them in separate pcs. Can you tell me why?
Stephen

Jordan Baker · #4 01-12-10, 20:07

Those smaller seperate pieces are made from armoured plate. The rest is mild steel plate.