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</head><body><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A TR2-3-4 engine block with the crank caps and bolts, weighs very close to 140 lbs.  That is just the casting, no internals.  </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I did the study for shipping one a few years ago.  </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I ended up meeting a good racer friend at Portland Raceway to pick up the block instead of shipping it.  I lifted the block out of his van and placed it in my car by myself.  </p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The crank and head are the other heaviest items at around 50 lbs. each.</p><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Dave H.</p><blockquote type="cite">On October 24, 2018 at 6:18 PM Paul Tegler <ptegler@verizon.net> wrote: <br> <br><p>I seem to remember years back a couple gentleman cutting up a Healey 6 cyl block to make casts for an aluminum block build for a race car. IIRC... the oem was something in the order of 700 lbs. The aluminum one came in around half (or less) of that.ï¿½ï¿½ So in my view, ANY engine is fine on these stands if it can handle a 700 lbs healey block sticking so far our 4's and 6's are just fine!</p><p>...think mine came from Pep Boys on sale... (two wheel up front version)<br></p><p>ptegler<br></p><br><div class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/2018 8:59 AM, Reihing, Randall S. wrote: <br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt;">I purchased an engine stand from Harbor Freight, mounted our Ford van's V6 engine on it and used that setup to disassemble, rebuild and reassemble the entire engine. No issues. Even though the V6 has a cast steel block with aluminum heads and aluminum intake manifold, it is still a lot of weight and I had zero issues with the engine stand. Very stable and easy to roll around. Now planning to use the same stand to rebuild the TR3's engine.ï¿½<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sincerely,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Randall Reihing ï¿½</span><div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;"><hr><div id="ox-2e62d864f1-divRpF888723" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><strong>From:</strong> Triumphs [<a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net">triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net</a>] on behalf of DAVID MASSEY [<a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>]<br> <strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, October 24, 2018 7:48 AM<br> <strong>To:</strong> <a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com">mark@bradakis.com</a>; <a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [TR] Engine stand<br> </span> <br></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I was at a friend's house last night and he had an Austin Healey engine on one of these stands.ï¿½ Even the TR6 engine is but a mere wisp compared to one of these lumps of cast iron.</span> <br></div><div><br></div><div style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dave </span> <br> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message----- <br> From: Mark J Bradakis <a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@bradakis.com"><mark@bradakis.com></a> <br> To: triumphs <a class="ox-2e62d864f1-moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net"><triumphs@autox.team.net></a> <br> Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 1:05 am <br> Subject: Re: [TR] Engine stand <br> <br><div dir="ltr">You are being paranoid.ï¿½ Many years ago when I did my first engine I did <br clear="none"> the math on the load capacity of the 4 bolts.ï¿½ You'll be fine, unless <br clear="none"> you have one of those extremely rare engines that weighs 20,000 pounds. <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> mjb.<div class="ox-2e62d864f1-yqt3364346030" id="ox-2e62d864f1-yqtfd16800"><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> ** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> triumphs@autox.team.net</a> ** <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Donate: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.team.net_donate.html&d=DwMCaQ&c=heEcP2AsrLOv4XP8e7I9NA&r=M9Vli1OgG7_7RAFFVpeXHiQAUCpprOLL1VRvWP3OJtI&m=-Apw4gUThzewE9_H3cLSTxthbsclM7twIPLdRi_TW6Y&s=iMTaF95KWtw-ylvuNuSHuzKJ3sA51v1YAIgG7XrHI5s&e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> http://www.team.net/donat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