How do you Get an Engine out without a crane...?

[bmcecosse]

Take the head off Barry - to minimise the weight - and anyway we want to see what's happened in there!

[nslocomotive]

hi all sorry I didn't get back sooner PC problems....

The main problem is where the holes are in the plates wither side of the engine, when she was stored on a farm they hooked a chain either side underneath using these holes as a towing point - with the brakes seized

as she has been stored for many years I would like to get her lump out so I can get her rolled over onto her side, this would give better access to her sills that also need doing..

I think there is a shot in my photobucket account if you follow the link in my sig, if not I will take some shots, question is do I replace of repair?

I will probably hire a lift on the saftey side of things I would rather leave my toes intacked, Ive put a nail through my back already and I dont think the idea of just lifting it out is gonna do me any good..

[badfelafel]

[nslocomotive]

Ive just checked there isnt a photo of the damage but I will upload one tomorrow.

[badfelafel]

Note the green rope in the picture - its goes around the bottom of the gearbox to support it when the engine is lifted out

[eastona]

badfelafel, I'd suggest you may break/bend the stud that way. (but go on, prove me wrong! )

My preferred method is a loop of rope, (double ropenormally), first bight looping round the front between the crank pulley and engine, the other bight between engine and gearbox.

easy to tilt aswell. (also easier to draw than describe )

I've taken a minor engine out with two stout chaps and a scaffold pole, as someone else already mentioned, and a midget one on my own after removing the head and separating from gearbox. A crane is much easier though.

Andrew

[bmcecosse]

The stud neither bent nor broke !!

[eastona]

I stand corrected.

There again, thinking logically, the engine and gearbox (minus head) must weigh 100-120Kg ish, so not much more than a very heavy chap.

so not really that heavy.

[boltonbill]

I use a normal scaffold pole mounted across my garage walls with a block and tackle. The same set-up handled the very heavy MGB engine
too so will be up to the job. Just remove one engine mounting tower and the replacements become easy!

I made a tripod with 3 scaffold tubes, I welded nuts to the tops of one and drilled and put a bolt through the other two. Used it for a couple of years on minis, and fords. It lived down at my dad's allotment. One day I wen to pick it up for a job and it has gone, my dad admitted it had gone underground to add a bit of backbone to the concrete slab foundation of his new garage.

[southerly95]

I did as the originator of this thread suggested which was to buy two 7" x 2" beams and fix them with bolts either side of one of the existing beams in the garage. At either end on each wall I bolted a fence post cut in half and placed horizontally underneath the 3 joined beams as further support. A 1.5 ton chain hoist from ebay £15 incl p and p finished the job. The beams don't move under the weight of a complete engine and gearbox.

[nslocomotive]

southerly, thats a plan I like, Im thinking now that the beams could be beefed up as you said, this would make future engine lifts easier and materials bought would pay for themselves with time.

E bay is my favorite site and I too have spotted the deals on hoists on the site. I may yet go down this route.

[downsey]

i'd just buy a cherry picker, er crane i guess is the way its said in Britain