Hi Bob, my unit came with enough cable unspooled to easily reach the front and
rear lifting eyes. I bought a couple of shackles from Home Depot to secure the
cables to the lifting points.
The ratchet is manual, meaning you have to lift the locking bar, then using a
long 1/2 inch breaker bar you can tilt the engine either way by moving the bar
in the obvious direction. It works the way you would expect.
You need a long bar and you need to insert it into the tilt lift in such a way
that you will be comfortable moving it through the range that you need to. The
engine and tranny are heavy and you will need to be able to exert a not
insignificant amount of effort to move them and hold that position while you
drop the locking bar into a suitable slot and then you can relax. You don't
want to be in an awkward position where you have no leverage while you try and
hold it with one hand and lock the tilt lift with the other. You get quite a
lot of tilt from a small movement so it is unlikely that you will need to
rotate it more than 45 degrees at any one time and there will be a few
strategic points where you will need to rotate it. The nice thing is that once
the end of the tranny clears the bulkhead you can level off the load and you
don't have to lift so high before you can pull the whole thing clear.
I did this on my own and I am no Charles Atlas.
The only thing I didn't like was that by connecting the tilt lift directly to
the lifting eyes they were bent slightly inwards. Nothing that could not be
easily be fixed later.
Stan
-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com@autox.team.net
[mailto:6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob
Danielson
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:06 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net; '6pack'
Subject: [6pack] Oberg Tilt Sling
I'm going to pull the engine and tranny this week and picked up an Oberg Tilt
Sling to make life easier......or so I'm told. The only problem is that their
directions are lacking, at best. To paraphrase the directions: 1.
attach both ends of the cable before turning drum and 2. one half turn of the
drum with a 1/2" ratchet will tilt an engine up to 45 degrees. End of
directions. So I'm left to assuming, which always gets me in trouble. I assume
that releasing the Oberg locking bar will let me pull out sufficient cable to
attach to the engine and I assume that as you pull the engine up and forward
you can release the locking bar and the engine will hold its position while
you ratchet it to the angle you want. I also assume that ratcheting in one
direction raises the front and in the other direction lowers the front.
As always.....thanks
Bob
Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org
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