mounting my 68 vert to a rotisserie for 1st time, need help

[stang32]

i have no directions & no documents
this is an eastwood rotisserie, I think its an autotwirler.
all i know is someone told me you have to set it up balanced & something about the center of gravity to help it spin easier.
I just got it mounted & it wants to tip the the right, not much but it does tip
but after it tips, it is very hard to spin further.
any help is as always appreciated
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[Midlife]

Most rotisseries need almost everything stripped from the car: windshields, deck lids, interior, engine, etc. I see you still have a hood and deck lid. That adds weight to the top. It will probably flip upside down and be incredibly hard to right upwards.

 

[Ponyman66]

From the pictures it looks like you have the car mounted off center (hence wanting to tip in one direction). You need to make sure the mounting arms are centered on the support bar, both front and rear arms.

 

[stangg]

It looks to me like the body is too low relative to the axis of which the "T" bar spins. The tilt to the right or left is more than likely because you still have things in the car that are causing the heavy side to go down... But double check that the car is centered left to right relative to the pivot point.

Ideally, with a perfectly balanced car, you can spin it very easily and then just snug the set screws to secure it at whatever position. If it's bottom heavy, then you should be able to spin it some in either direction and it should get increasingly harder as you try to turn it more. If this is the case, raise the "T" bar up a notch or two to see where it becomes easiest to spin. Don't go too far up as you'll make it top heavy and it could dangerously rotate on you unexpectedly.

Every car is going to be a little different depending on what is installed so move a little at a time and work with a helper.

For what it's worth, I built my rotisserie I set it up so that I could very finely tune the rotisserie to the cars center of gravity with a simple crank of long bolt. Moving a little at a time so I could gauge more precisely when it was getting close. On your rotisserrie, you might only be able to get it "close" because you only have a limited set of holes to set the center of gravity. You might want to only raise one end, check it before moving to the other end.