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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by jeepsterhemi, Jan 19, 2018.

  1. jeepsterhemi
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    ......a little ingenuity get the job done?


    Treuil-01.jpg Treuil-02.jpg
     
  2. hmmmm.... i think those tools ARE sophisticated
     
  3. lostone
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    Hey now!! You can't post pics of old school engine hoists without one showing a tree limb and come along!! If it wasn't for the tree limb I'd been dead in the water for years. :D
     
  4. jeepsterhemi
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    Sorry, I meant to present the first picture as the sophisticated tool and the second picture as the ingenous one....
     

  5. Terrible80
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    So pull the axle 1st, and use it as a crane arm. Also this lowers the vehicle allowing easier motor removal. lol
     
  6. I'm totally using that.
     
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  7. Glenn Thoreson
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    from SW Wyoming

    Aha! A new use for my power pole. :)
     
  8. mickeyc
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    The one in photo seem to be well designed and executed.
    The one in the drawing looks like a death trap to me. Also
    passing the pulling rope of that 4 part block system through
    an eye bolt would create a friction point that would be difficult
    to manage by hand. I can just imagine that wooden post ( I assume)
    deflecting under the load, then snapping off at one of the drilled
    points suddenly. Yikes!
     
  9. RmK57
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    My 460 with the C6 attached would pull the telephone pole down.:eek:
     
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  10. Doublepumper
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    from WA-OR, USA

    Wish I had pictures. My first engine puller consisted of two alder trees about fifteen feet apart, some heavy chain between them and a fence stretcher for a hoist. I can still vividly recall working under that setup and how the trees would bend under the weight...and the wind....good times!
     
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  11. Many years ago, a number of my non-carguy type coworkers decided to change the tired high mile engine in their shared commuter car. They connected their come-along to a suitable beam and pulled the engine with trans attached high enough to roll the car out from underneath. Now, with the engine and trans dangling 4-5 feet in the air, they were struggling with the come-along and couldn't get it to let the engine and trans down. One of the guys declared the problem was they were using a "come-along", and right now, they needed a "there-you-go". True story.
     
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  12. dana barlow
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    1. Y-blocks

    Admitt it,we all most likely have done something the hard way !
    How about us 6 teens in 1958,a 10foot 2x6 and a lot of rope,to pull the motor out of Mac's,48 Dodge.
    The power of stupid is as always strong +.
     
  13. Dave G in Gansevoort
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    Yup. Like gutting a 55 Ford for a stockcar using a boy scout hatchet and a stone hammer... It was all I had!
     
  14. Budget36
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    My first engine swap as a kid that I was “in charge of” my buddy wanted to pull his 352 of of his pickup and pull the 390 out of an LTD his dad gave him and put the 390 into the truck.
    When I got the to his place, he was all setup waiting for me to show where to hook things up at. He had a come a long looped and latched over a single 2x4 in the garage.

    I went back home grabbed some 4x4s, chain and my dads 1/2 ton hoist.

    I remember him bitching at me when I got back (was a 20 minute ride, then gathered stuff up) because “we could have been done by now”.
     
  15. choptop40
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    some funny shit there ...we could of been dead by now is more like it....
     
  16. blowby
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  17. blowby
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    Oops, forgot the engine stand

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  18. indyjps
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    I'm just imagining the telephone poles guys showing up. " I don't know what happened, it just broke in half" :D

    I've shed enough blood from things that look like they might work, I'm not as adventurous as I once was.
     
  19. hotrodjack33
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    Pulled this engine, then my mom called me in for dinner...it was a long dinner...and I kinda forgot about it.:eek:
    [​IMG]
     
  20. Jokester
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    Yep, a friend tried to pull the heads off of his 389 Pontiac in his 55 Chevy. Removed all the head bolts but the heads wouldn't budge. Next day pulled the engine out without re-installing the head bolts. Bolted the chain to the heads. Pulled the engine. It hung from the tree for over a week with no head bolts. They never did come off.

    .bjb
     
  21. X-cpe
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    X-cpe

    The old strip it to a short block, a couple of 2x4s over the fenders with a chain and a buddy. Or if by yourself, strip it to a bare block.
     
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  22. cfmvw
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    The high tech version would be made from a shopping cart!
     
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  23. An old guy in our neighborhood had a crane like that. His dad built it, probably in the 50s. no wood. A piece of railroad track sunk int the ground and concreted in. A chain fall, no snatch blocks or come along needed. It was a thing of beauty
     
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  24. lowrd
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    Considering rope was used in the second illustration, was that a "dropped" axle?
     
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  25. Glenn Thoreson
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    In the '60s we had a part time shop helper. None too bright, that one. My buddy and I went out to lunch and left helper man with pulling the engine out of a '53 Chevy. We had always had the chain hoist hanging off one of the trusses in the old tin garage with no problems. We got back from lunch and here was our brain trust with the whole front end of the car hanging in mid air. Said he couldn't get the engine to budge. About that time the roof came down. Nobody told him to take ALL the bolts out. :eek:
     
  26. blue 49
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    from Iowa

    I was at a junkyard years ago and the yard guy was pulling an engine to sell. He had the whole front of the car lifted with the wrecker, the cable hooked to the engine. He was just clipping stuff off with torch until the car fell to the ground.

    Gary
     

  27. I’ve done this more then once unloading an engine from a truck / van by myself .

    it might look stupid but it works , it helps when it’s a “ contractors “ wheel barrow and not a light duty gardening one :D
     
  28. blowby
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    from Nicasio Ca

    Lol, yeah it was rickety but it worked. That was around 1990 but as I remember it went like this:

    Roll car under tree
    Lift old engine
    Roll car out of the way
    Lower engine into wheelbarrow
    Move wheelbarrow out of the way
    Back truck under tree
    Lift out new engine
    Move truck out of the way
    Roll car back under tree
    Lower in new engine
    Roll car out of the way
    Move wheelbarrow under tree
    Lift old engine
    Back truck under tree
    Lower in old engine
     
  29. BamaMav
    Joined: Jun 19, 2011
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    from Berry, AL

    First engine I pulled was a 283 in a slightly OT 66 Chevelle. Somebody in the wife's family had built the set up, a 2x6 sitting on a pine limb on one end, nailed to a 4x4 post on the other. Had a couple of angle braces on the pole side, no braces on the tree side. Used a chain hoist that the chain was twisted, lift so high, let back down a bit and untwist the chain, lift again. Left the transmission {powerglide} hanging by a piece of coat hanger wire tied to a wiper tower, pulled the torque converter with the engine. Was a wonder I didn't destroy the seal or pump! Pushed the car backwards, put engine in pickup bed. Repeated the process putting it back in, turned the flywheel until the converter seated. And didn't hurt anything! Just blind ass dumb luck I guess!

    Wasn't long after that I built a A frame out of 2" galvanized water pipe. Used that until I finally bought a cherry picker.

    Hopefully a little smarter now!
     
  30. mickeyc
    Joined: Jul 8, 2008
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    I have one of the common engine puller shop cranes that
    are a staple in the automotive hobby world. The kind bought
    for $200 bucks or so at auto parts suppliers pretty much every
    where. Most guys refer to them as cherry picker hoists. Now
    I have several quality lifting devices in my possession as well.
    they include come alongs, chain falls and an electric hoist as
    well. Also engine leveling devices and quality lifting eyes as well
    as rated slings and chains. I do use them with my budget shop
    crane. The reason I use the cherry picker is my space limitations
    dont include room for a quality A frame to suspend my better
    lifting gear from. My shop has no useable overhead accommodations
    available. Hence I use the smaller shop crane for heavy lifting. I
    have a thorough understanding of this devices limitations and
    am extremely deliberate as to how I implement it in my endevors.
    The point I am making is how many professional shops I see
    on the T. V. using these things. I enjoy watching these shows just
    to see the metal work mainly. Now these operations have ample
    room for the most part and could easily have a really nice and
    safe proper roll around lifting frame. I have seen several times
    where an oil pan on a motor or trans was damaged using one of
    hydraulic shop cranes. It seems the fellow operating the thing
    invariably cracks open the valve on the ram and lets it slam down.
    I cannot understand why a high end shop would even have one of
    these units on hand.
     

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