Engine Hoist

[pjtoledo]

quick suggestion on the load leveler, DON'T have the crank facing the firewall.

that caused lots of swearing

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

I own a load leveler. I find they get in the way more than help.

 

[Josh B]

I only pulled one motor in my life, using 3 tree trunks about 12 ft long, cut, and carried up from the woods, chained together over a 64 impala with a 283 and a 2 speed dura-glide transmission.

An old farming neighbor stopped by to laugh at it as I explained to him what it was for.

About 2 days later he stopped by again, looked around, saw the posts in a pile on the ground, and said "it didn't work, did it"

Then I showed him the 283 laying there on the ground, and the "new" 235 straight 6 sitting in the engine bay already attached to the dura-glide and both bolted in position.

I had pulled the motor/transmission together, winched the car out of the way, set the old 283 aside, bolted the 235 and transmission together, raised it, winched the car back under it, dropped the new engine and transmission in, and bolted it all back together, all without a load leveler

I certainly cannot claim genius, but I'm sure it wasn't all luck those things came apart and went back together so well

I have been studying into a leveler so please don't take this in a wrong way. I would actually rather have a good one along, but on my budget a number of those things isn't always an option

 

[Josh B]

I have actually pulled 2, the other was a straight 6 300 my brother and I lifted (minus the head) from a 73 one ton van and set it up inside, then dropped a rebuilt one back in its place.
I bought that from a work buddy who had wrecked a new truck and given up on using it. My brother and I put new rings and bearings dropped it right in there.
That's the one I talked about once before that had the brass bushing (for a standard transmission) in the crank shaft tail and I near never figured out why it wouldn't pull together with my automatic

^^^^ Still no hoist ^^^^

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

It’s a tight squeeze to pull an engine and the trans. I’ve done it, but like has been mentioned you pretty much have to stand it on end. Goes a lot better if you can pull the core support though. That’s how I handled pulling the engine and trans on my green Ranger (4.0 auto), and the donor from an Explorer (5.0, auto) and putting the 5.0 and auto in the green Ranger. Both core supports were rotted, so they had to come out anyway and it made the whole process lots easier.

I’ve done more engines than I’d like to admit. Used a HF 2 ton for a couple, used a backhoe a couple times, skid steer a couple times, and now I have my own heavy duty lift. I modded it to use 6” wheels and put down plywood in the gravel driveway to use it and it still sucks. Need a garage. The one junkyard has gantry’s with chain hoists for pulling stuff and they have them on doughnut spares which would probably be good for outdoor use.

 

[Roert42]

The one junkyard has gantry’s with chain hoists for pulling stuff and they have them on doughnut spares which would probably be good for outdoor use.

In the little notebook that goes. What did they use to mount them?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

In the little notebook that goes. What did they use to mount them?

If I mind right, they had swivel plates with a pin to lock them and then an arm went down the one side of the tire and had a unit bearing.

Might have a pic somewhere. Want to go back there soon, U-Pull & Pay, on the edge of Pittsburgh

 

[Roert42]

I guess if you had a junk yard full of cars you could find some spindles to use.