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[MiniDave]

 

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[cstudep]

You already have your solution but as an aside, for as cheap as they are, these things actually work surprisingly well for moving a Mini about on decent enough concrete. I put one under each wheel to move the entire car in any direction, but they also work fairly well just under the front or rear wheels to pivot it about like you are saying. They make metal dollies specifically for such things, and even ones like you mention with a jack feature built in but they cost about 10x as much.

I have seen them for sale at Home Depot and the like for basically the same price as well.

https://www.harborfreight.com/18-in-x-12-in-1000-lb-capacity-hardwood-dolly-58312.html

[Dan Moffet]

Yes, furniture dollies are great and nearly indestructible. Works well as you suggest for a car in storage or a project that needs to be moved.

My Mini-Lift is like that but with a scissors jack in the middle. It takes longer to get down on my knees and position it than it does to lift and move the car!

Many years ago I bolted a piece of angle iron to the back cross-member of the rear subframe so it is strong enough for single-point jacking. For the front, I have a 1x1 square steel tube that clips onto the front subframe for single-point lifts, similar to the Dooder wooden board. The scissor jack I used is rated at .95 ton. The whole Mini is only .65 ton.

[94touring]

I have some things that bolt to the wheel studs and have heavy duty steel rollers on the bases.  Works great, aside from needing to put wheels on and off.

[MPlayle]

A few years back I did the furniture dolly thing under one of my Minis.  It was sharing garage space with a Mazda Miata/MX5 in a 1.5 car garage.  I could easily pirouette the Mini any way I wanted.

Lifting it onto the dollies was also easy as I have a cross beam for my floor jack that lets me do two-point lifts of the front or rear of the Mini.  Lift the front and place two dollies, then lift the rear and place the other dollies, then move the Mini where/how you want.