[Mgs] watch your chains

[mgbob at juno.com]

  Using rope is easier than it sounds.
  You simply select the rope of needed strength for the task plus allowance
for wear&tear, age, etc, then splice it into a loop.  Make two of them. Then
pass the loops around the engine to make slings and put the loop onto the lift
hook.
  This is not often seen, but if you look at old movies of cargo handling on
the waterfront, that's how cargo was loaded and unloaded from ships. We did it
when I was in the navy. It's quite secure and easy to do.
  For the MGB engine, one would pass the the front rope under the crankshaft
pulley and onto the hook. Rear would go around bell housing and to the hook.
As I type this, it really does sound difficult, but it's not, and it works a
treat.
Bob


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com>
To: ccrobins at ktc.com
Cc: MG Mailing List <mgs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] watch your chains
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:02:04 -0700

Probably 90% plus of the engines pulled in commercial shops are done with
some type of chain.  Either a chain hoist, or short pieces of chain to
connect to the engine.  The remaining one are most likely pulled with model
specific tools that are solid steel and hook directly to a cherry picker.
Rope and wire rope have some inherent problems.  First off is attaching them
to the engine.  It a little tough to run a bolt though a piece of rope.
:-)  Secondly knots weaken the overall strength.   Thirdly rope can slip.  I
have no idea how you would attach wire rope to an engine.  I know my
company's safety engineer would blow a gasket if they saw an engine being
pulled via a rope.
$.02

Rick

Charlie, where is said hoist?  I might be in the market if it is nearby.
R

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Charley & Peggy Robinson
<ccrobins at ktc.com>wrote:

> I've always used chains to pull/install engines, etc.  My original setuup
> was an A-frame and chain falls.   Later on I bought a knock-down engine
> hoist of the cherry picker type and short to medium length chains to suit
> the job.  My approach on chains has always been to select chains of at
least
> twice the weight-carrying  capacity of whatever I intended to lift.  Never
> had one break.
>
> BTW, anyone want to buy a hoist?  My engine pulling days are over. :-(
>
> CR
>
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