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History flathead lift; these are trained professionals; don't try this at home

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by atch, Mar 11, 2021.

  1. atch
    Joined: Sep 3, 2002
    Posts: 5,625

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    I just watched a pretty cool flathead video called "All the Oddities of Ford's Famous Flathead V8 (Full Engine Build)". I imagine many of you have seen it before.

    There's probably nothing about the rebuild that most of you haven't seen &/or done yourselves. The build is by Keith Dorton of Automotive Specialists.

    The interesting thing, though, is at around the 1:15 mark. This is a video/movie of the Ford factory showing them lifting & swiveling an engine/transmission into place. The mechanism they are using is what fascinated me. I'm not recommending that you use this lever/chain/hook method of lifting one of these beasts yourself but I found it to be very interesting. It's only shown for 4-5 seconds so I had to back up and look at it a couple of times to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing.

    Below is a screen shot. I had to save this to a MSWord file; then save as a png file; then upload to here. It's not as clear as it will be if you watch the YouTube video. It shows what I'm talking about, though, should you decide to skip watching the video. You'll notice that the guy on the left had to have a goodly amount of body heft in order to perform this.

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    Last edited: Mar 11, 2021
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  2. clem
    Joined: Dec 20, 2006
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    Thanks !
    Reminds me of the old hay grabs from the same era......
     
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  3. Petejoe
    Joined: Nov 27, 2002
    Posts: 12,263

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    from Zoar, Ohio

    Looks dangerous to me.
    I’d bet a lot of guys got their legs and feet smashed with that thing.
     
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  4. williebill
    Joined: Mar 1, 2004
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    I'm a sucker for anything that says "Don't try this at home".
     
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  5. lippy
    Joined: Sep 27, 2006
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    from Ks

    Ice tongs come to mind. lol
     
  6. treb11
    Joined: Jan 21, 2006
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