- Provide a bigger working surface for the larger vehicles.
- Can be set up to anchor one rail tightly, while allowing the damaged rail to be pulled back to square in the center section.
- May allow multiple simultaneous pulls to be made with equalized pressure, preventing ripping, tearing, bending or rolling of the steel.
- Provide the greater pulling power needed to straighten advanced steels.
- Easily hold the vehicle in multiple places, providing more working surface for making repairs on the ends of the vehicle.
“Today shops are doing more sectioning and cutting, and less pulling, but on light-duty trucks you have to pull the hardest structures back first so you’re lined up to do work on the ends,” says Bob Holland, director of collision sales in North and South America at Chief, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of collision repair equipment. “For example, the Chief Goliath™ frame rack can be used to repair diamond and twist frame damage on trucks weighing up to 12,000 lbs.”
The widest frame rack on the market, Goliath is made for larger vehicles. At 92 inches wide and 22 feet long, it provides technicians with the room to work on even the largest duallys without having to remove the truck’s wheels. Variable deck heights from 19- to 40-inches lets technicians put the truck at just the right working height.
The Chief Goliath pulling system provides 360-degree pulling anywhere around the deck perimeter, allowing for ganging of towers and simultaneous multiple pulls. It is the only collision rack on the market with full cross bars, which easily allows one frame rail to be held tight and the other rail loose enough to be pulled back into place.
Goliath features an electric-over-hydraulic pulling system to equalize pressure to all towers in use. It provides 10 tons of pulling power at the hook, an important benefit since advanced steels are making it necessary for shops to use more pressure than ever before. Competitive systems may use 10-ton rams, but by the time the pressure gets to the hook and the vehicle it’s attached to, the pressure could have dropped to as little as four tons.
Goliath is compatible with Chief’s LaserLock™ Live Mapping™ measuring system that can measure up to 45 individual points on a vehicle simultaneously in real time – more than any other system – so technicians can monitor dimensional changes as they occur during pulling, reducing the risk of putting additional damage into the vehicle.
To learn more about the Chief Goliath frame rack, visit www.chiefautomotive.com/frame-machines/goliath/, contact your local Chief distributor or call (800) 445-9262. Chief is also active on Twitter, twitter.com/ChiefAutomotive and Facebook, www.facebook.com/ChiefAutomotive. For video, visit chiefautomotive.com/video-library.
About Chief
Chief, a Vehicle Service Group (VSG) brand, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-quality collision repair products and services. The Chief product line includes frame-pulling equipment, vehicle-anchoring systems, measuring systems, vehicle frame specifications and fusion equipment including welders, rivet guns and fume extractors. Chief is also a leading provider of comprehensive training on structural analysis, measuring, collision dynamics, aluminum repair, and design based repair.
VSG comprises nine global collision repair and vehicle lifting brands: Chief, Elektron, Rotary Lift®, Forward® Lift, Direct-Lift®, Hanmecson®, Revolution® Lift, Blitz® and nogra®. VSG also has exclusive North American marketing rights to the Chassis Liner and Globaljig® brands. With its North and South American headquarters in Madison, Indiana, VSG has operations worldwide, including ISO 9001-certified manufacturing facilities on three continents. VSG is part of the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corporation, a multi-billion dollar, global producer of innovative equipment, specialty systems and value-added services.
