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Patton

Patton

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Hi guys,

I am doing all of the prep work for pulling my engine this week. The plan is to have everything stripped that I need to have off this weekend. I will pull the engine as soon as I can find help for the couple of hours to unbolt and guide it out. The paint shop will be ready in a couple of weeks, so I am getting into crunch time.

Can I use the rocker cover bolts to pull the engine, or do I need to remove the rocker? (while out I am not doing any work to the motor)

Also, what should I use for lifting brackets? On the Sprite I used a couple of big washers and bolted straight to the chain but the weights are much greater here.

Does anyone have the exact dimensions of the placement and size of the hole for the dual washer jet for Longbridge BN4's?

Thanks
Patton

[ 01-24-2004: Message edited by: Patton ]

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Most people remove the head prior to removing the engine, because the thing is sooo heavy.

With the head gone, make up a two tie bars that connect between two head studs for the front and rear of the engine. Bolt the tie bars to the engine block and lift from the bars.

You're lifting 800 pounds, find something rated for at least twice that. If you can weld, fabricate some eyes to the lifting bracket and bolt the chain to the brackets.

Good luck
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ThomP:
Most people remove the head prior to removing the engine, because the thing is sooo heavy. <hr></blockquote>

Well, I guess I'm not like "most people" as I've never resorted to pulling an engine that way. Nor did I ever see an engine pulled from a Big Healey in that fashion when I worked at Austin-Healey West back in the 70s.

Not that it isn't a good idea, but Patton states that it is not his intention to do any work on the engine. I assume that means he's not planning on pulling off the head...

Personally, I made myself a lifting brkt from a piece of 2" angle-iron. The angle iron is notched out so that it will lay on top of the rockershaft and pedestals. the upright portion of the angle-iron has multiple holes that allow for different "angles of attack" depending on whether you're lifting the engine/trans or engine only. It is attached on the same two studs as the rocker cover.

I also made a similar, but shorter version that works on the MGB & Spridget engines.

Edit: the angle-iron reaches the length of the head and attaches to the same (longer) studs that secure the rocker cover.

[ 01-25-2004: Message edited by: Randy Forbes ]</p>
 
Randy

You got a picture of the bracket? Sounds like "just the ticket".

I guess the people I hang around with don't own the heavy duty equipment necessary to lift that beast.
 
<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ThomP:
You got a picture of the bracket? <hr></blockquote>

Unfortunately, I do not. The bracket is hanging on the side of my engine hoist and they are both in a shed in my brother's backyard in Florida. There's a few things that I'll soon be wanting from that shed, but last Thanksgiving I packed in as much as our X5 could bear. Might have to make another trip in the springtime...
 
Not terribly experianced here, so if the suggestion sound bad, let me know as well..... A local (midwest) store around here sells "engine levelers" to go with the cherry pickers, I think I paid around 35 dollars for mine, it is a brace I assume like the others were talking about to shift the weight evenly. But the thing has a screw drive center so that "mid pick" you can change the angle of the enginge very quickly by turning a handle, and "shifting" weight forward or rearwards. I have only used this on sprite Enginges, so far, some day dow the road I am sure I will use it on princess, but I have a lot other things to do first. Any one use one of these on a big healey yet?
 
Yes the levelers work great. Just remember to keep the crank end away from the cherry picker. The handle gets caught up close to the picker arm and you can't turn it after a while. The combination is perfect and I lifted my engine with head via those two bolts.
 
Yes the levelers work great. Just remember to keep the crank end away from the cherry picker. The handle gets caught up close to the picker arm and you can't turn it after a while. The combination is perfect and I lifted my engine with head via those two bolts.
 
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