Technical Bolts needed for engine hoist&stand

The post was to show the pipe and chain. It was hung from the come along to show how it looks. However my come alongs are older Rockwell built parts. And very well made. Not the ones in the $9.99 barrel at Pep Boys. I don't know that I ever picked up a hemi with one. But I have picked up a 317 Lincoln and several other engines.

 

I used a come a long to pull engines when I was a teenager...it was back when they were made in the US...but then was severely rebuked for doing so, and haven't since. Sometimes I still use a come a long to tighten fence wire, or pull something onto something else, or similar things. I have an engine hoist and a chain hoist now, it's neat what having a little money can do for your safety.

 

That particular lift is mounted above my rear garage door and is more for lifting things up to pickup bed height. I can't get high enough to pull or install an engine. But will lift one enough to put it on the stand. I said it's a Rockwell. But this thread made me look at it and it's a Ingersol Rand. Rated at 1000 pounds. I don't know. Seems safe enough to me for what I am doing with it. But what do I know?

 

All right. My picture was only to demonstrate the use of a pipe to stick a chain in and spread it out away from valve covers and intake parts. I was going to hang it on a wire from a water pipe, but the come along was handy.But it is not always easy to communicate what you are trying to. Here is my pulling engines rig. it has served me close to 60 years. I have had 3 cancer surgeries. I'm missing parts that I thought you needed. I am not worried about my hoist failing and killing me.

 

How does a post like this go 3 pages? Smh

 

I use my heavy duty engine crane and a couple of seat belts threaded through the intake manifold.

 

Wanted to pull a mill without disturbing the multi-carb set up, so I made a lifting bar out of an old Henry Ford axle; doesn't have a fancy screw adjuster like the Chinese ones; but did the job just fine.

 

Now that's slick. ^^

 

By failing to mention mirror muffs?


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