Technical Puling a Straight Eight?

Where do I hook the chains on a Pontiac straight eight to remove it from the car? Can I pull the motor and transmission as one or do I need to unbolt the ****** ( It's an automatic)? Anything else I need to address while doing this? The radiator and most of the front end bracing is out of the way and I am not worried about damaging anything except the motor.

 

Eye bolts or swivels that screw into spark plug holes front and rear. Or take out a couple of head bolts and put them thru a piece of chain.

I suppose you could take out engine and trans together if you and your engine hoist are man enough. The engine weighs 700 pounds and the transmission 300 in other words, half a ton together.

 

Personally, I would be wary of using the spark plug holes.

I lifted a Pontiac straight eight a few weeks ago.

Removing the ****** first makes it easier but you can do it all together.

If you remove the ****** you can run nylon straps at the front of the motor looped underneath and at the rear, around a couple of bell housing bolts (if no ******).

Makes it easier than removing a head bolt.

 

I pulled the whole lot together from my 46 Olds, otherwise you need to unbolt the torus etc etc. Damn heavy with hydramatic. I used chains due to weight

 

I tend to use head bolt/stud locations. Just hung a Packard 320 with the trans last week, head studs. Last year a Duesenberg (!), again, head studs.

 

I try to use head bolts/studs as well. One thing I do when pulling a long motor (Buick Straight 8 are the long ones I deal with) is to use one of the engine levelers so that I don't have the chain pulling at too much of an angle. If you use a strong enough chain you're OK, but pulling at an angle multiplies the tension on the chain. The more vertical the path of the chain the better.

 

I use head studs on flat head engines and a lift bar I made on OHV engines. I like my lift point to be in one place only so the engine can be tilted, rolled, or angled without fighting against a two or more lift point attachment. Every straight eight I've done lately has been a Buick so it gets used regularly. The bar attaches to the rocker stand studs which are replaced with a couple of long grade 8 bolts.

 

Thanks for the replies. My engine hoist is pretty strong. You could say it is strong as an oak Just kidding, I have a two ton hoist with the leveling bar. I am selling the engine before I take the car to the s**** yard. If the buyer doesn't want the ****** I may leave it in the car. Unless there is any demand for a hydramatic. I have two of them.