chassis jig design

[cheapta]

AS far as the question of how to get a car onto the jig,I did mine kind of the opposite (blue I-beam jig with ChevyII on it a few pages back.) Once the car was gutted and had some supports welded inside I lifted one end with my cherry picker and blocked it up,then the other end and blocked it up.I made some wheeled dollies out of framing lumber and Harbor Frieght casters and rolled the I beams under the car,bolted the stringers in between the I beams,then lowered the car onto the beams using the cherry picker again. In fact I was able to wheel the jig into position in my shop like that with the car on it-it hardly weighed anything at that point.Then I lifted one end of the jig at a time (with the car strapped down-you can see that in the photos) and put the legs on and leveled the whole thing.
I made some body clamps that clamp onto the pinch welds at the bottom of the rockers to hold the car up off the jig.They also were capable of jacking the car so I could set ride height with the wheels mocked into place.Once I had everything where I wanted it and centered on the jig I welded the car to the jig and got the leveling clamps out of my way. I'll try and get some pictures of the clamps up here before too long.
I'm working alone in my home shop,don't have a forklift or any type of overhead crane-get creative!