Reply to: RE>pulling engines...
>Howdy!
>With all the discussion of pulling engines, I was wondering how people
>actually attach the hoist chain to the engine. Do you just use the rocker
>shaft or have a made-up bracket to stick on the head/rocker gear bolts?
>Since I'm looking to buy a cherry picker, is a load leveler >necessary/useful?
>Any comments would be appreciated.
>John
I've always wanted a load leveler, but since I've never had one, and pulled
_lots_ of engines, I guess it's not necessary. Congratulations on having the
$$ and storage space for your very own cherry picker, by the way. I
make do with a hole in the garage beam, and a come-along. I have a pair
of 3/8" thick steel angles with a hole in each face. With MG engines, I
bolt each angle to the rocker arm pedestal. Then a short chain goes between
the angle brackets, and the comealong hooks up to a link in the
middle of the chain.
When I used to wrench down at
Fast Eddie's garage, we used to pull V8's by running a chain around the
rocker arm shafts. I never liked it, but it worked. We never had a cherry
picker, we just looped the chain up around the car-lifting hoist.
Once I was pulling a Ford V8 that was stuck, so the engine wouldn't turn.
I couldn't unbolt the torque converter, so I was pulling the engine
SLOWLY. UP a little, ease the car back a little.... Fast Eddie got impatient
watching me, and just hauled back on the air lever on that hoist. UP-up-up
the whole car lifted up about four inches, there was a "CRACK", and the
engine came right out. Unfortunately, the input shaft to the transmission
came out with it! I wound up rebuilding that transmission.
- Jerry Kaidor
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