thats a great suggestion overland express suggested,motorheads help others
Engine Hoist? Plan 'A' failed, what's Plan 'B'?
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Joined: Jul 2009
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From: Northwest
Post on Cragslist that you would like to rent someones engine hoist for a day or half day, offer a beer if they want to spend 5 minutes helping you! I'm sure some motorhead has one sitting in there garage around there. I bought a truck and posted an ad for someone to trailer it up 600 miles to me and found a guy that was headed this way with an empty trailer, I gave him $200.00 and he delivered my truck to me! Craigslist works!
Lead Driver
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From: Pa.
Yep I know exactly how it is .. We live at the end of the road here .. I wouldn't know where to go to rent something that wouldn't cost me at least $40 in fuel
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From: Pa.
Post on Cragslist that you would like to rent someones engine hoist for a day or half day, offer a beer if they want to spend 5 minutes helping you! I'm sure some motorhead has one sitting in there garage around there. I bought a truck and posted an ad for someone to trailer it up 600 miles to me and found a guy that was headed this way with an empty trailer, I gave him $200.00 and he delivered my truck to me! Craigslist works!
Cargo Master
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: South west Idaho
It sounds like what you have is a truss make sorta like a I-beam . 2x4 flat on the top and bottom with a plywood webbing foaming an [ I ] .If so . do not cut any of it as it is engineered to span the distant it goes from wall to wall. They are engineered to have weight push down on them and never pull down from the bottom . Pulling down will pull the lower 2x4 apart from the webbing , then very bad things happen. You could put a 4x4 like redroad said if you put it on top, but then you will need a hole though the upper floor if it is finished. Buy a cherry picker then sell it is my suggestion.
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From: Pa.
It sounds like what you have is a truss make sorta like a I-beam . 2x4 flat on the top and bottom with a plywood webbing foaming an [ I ] .If so . do not cut any of it as it is engineered to span the distant it goes from wall to wall. They are engineered to have weight push down on them and never pull down from the bottom . Pulling down will pull the lower 2x4 apart from the webbing , then very bad things happen. You could put a 4x4 like redroad said if you put it on top, but then you will need a hole though the upper floor if it is finished. Buy a cherry picker then sell it is my suggestion.
Cargo Master
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: South west Idaho
I still have my older walker american made hoist but my buddy bought one of these and they are pretty good and free shipping .. I think he payed $225 4000 lbs Engine Cherry Picker Hoist Shop Crane 2 Ton | eBay
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Joined: Feb 2010
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From: Near St. Joseph,MO
I bought my fold up cherry picker at harbor freight a while back for like $150. I've pulled about 5 engines including my 460 with it and love it.
Like was said before, if you strip the engine )heads/intake/exhaust/etc( then you can probably pull the block by yourself. I've lifted one of these blocks with crank/pistons by myself, and if you are just turning it around to put on a stand you will have help from the frame.
Like was said before, if you strip the engine )heads/intake/exhaust/etc( then you can probably pull the block by yourself. I've lifted one of these blocks with crank/pistons by myself, and if you are just turning it around to put on a stand you will have help from the frame.
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From: Tennessee
I planted 2 6x6 ceder posts in the ground and topped them with another one . A chain hoist and a cable hoist worked great for years .Then I built a 5 bay shed and put up 6x6 beams in 2 bays to pull from . I still use them sometimes . But now I have a 2 bay shop at home with a concrete floor and a nice engine hoist . Improvise , a few well planted posts can work for cheep .
Cargo Master
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From: Williams Lake B.C.
3 long poles or 4x4's in a tripod.
Chain it together on the ground and as you push it up it binds and tightens up.
Put a chainblock on it and your good to go.
Ive seen hundreds of 3 pole setups, its all anyone used to use around here for pulling a motor.
Chain it together on the ground and as you push it up it binds and tightens up.
Put a chainblock on it and your good to go.
Ive seen hundreds of 3 pole setups, its all anyone used to use around here for pulling a motor.
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From: Victoria , BC
To move body parts I use my front and rear winches. Box install was a breeze. Ran rear winch up and to the front to a crossmember back to rear and hooked to box. Cab I got creative. Winch to car back to side of frame with temporary tube welded on frame with shackle then out the side of truck like pic below
I dragged old cab away like this.
once cab was dragged up it needed to level out with a jack and
Some wood planks, then kept winching up.
I dragged old cab away like this.
once cab was dragged up it needed to level out with a jack and
Some wood planks, then kept winching up.
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
Do not mess around with your home, great way to jack up you insurance with some cobbled up support that fails and then what you going to do?
Like its been said, just get on the c list wanted add and rent one for a day or too or buy one you will need it for the install anyway.
Since it sounds like you are a 1 man show, get a cherry picker and do it safely. Find a guy with a old school split boom wrecker truck or a "gin pole" set up. Get a guy with a tractor and a front end loader.
Rent a bobcat/skid loader, lots of construction business have them, explain your situation and they might even provide a operator for the short time needed.
Even a tractor with a rear 3 point pole will pick that motor out. Build one of these in the pic, I have pulled motors, front clips, beds, even unloaded that Bronco shell off the trailer with it.
Like its been said, just get on the c list wanted add and rent one for a day or too or buy one you will need it for the install anyway.
Since it sounds like you are a 1 man show, get a cherry picker and do it safely. Find a guy with a old school split boom wrecker truck or a "gin pole" set up. Get a guy with a tractor and a front end loader.
Rent a bobcat/skid loader, lots of construction business have them, explain your situation and they might even provide a operator for the short time needed.
Even a tractor with a rear 3 point pole will pick that motor out. Build one of these in the pic, I have pulled motors, front clips, beds, even unloaded that Bronco shell off the trailer with it.
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From: S/W Missouri, Polk county
Have you even signed up with your FTE state chapter and ask around in there? I have had a few wrench fests with the folks I have meet thru my state chapter.
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From: The Shenandoah Valley
I bought my fold up cherry picker at harbor freight a while back for like $150. I've pulled about 5 engines including my 460 with it and love it.
Like was said before, if you strip the engine )heads/intake/exhaust/etc( then you can probably pull the block by yourself. I've lifted one of these blocks with crank/pistons by myself, and if you are just turning it around to put on a stand you will have help from the frame.
Like was said before, if you strip the engine )heads/intake/exhaust/etc( then you can probably pull the block by yourself. I've lifted one of these blocks with crank/pistons by myself, and if you are just turning it around to put on a stand you will have help from the frame.
The latest add shows the higher regular price raised. That $99.99 is good to July 24 (limit 5). Maybe I should latch onto one? Best price on net is 179.99? Last time I was there a couple weeks ago, was going to get one but they didn't have a fork trk driver on duty to get it off top of stack in store room.
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