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Ok. Finally got to the one I have really been wanting to post. A great way to pull an engine by myself.
So I have pulled many engines from VW to 914 and 914-6 and 911 and I have always done them by myself. This was my first 930 and as a complete motor it is LOT more tricky due to the turbo and other parts that make it harder to balance. In fact when I pulled this engine I removed the turbo and exhaust.
The hard part about pulling an engine has always been balancing it on a jack. So I wanted to find a way to bolt it to the jack. So the first thing is I am using a transmission jack. Unfortunately it is a very large jack.

The meat of it.
I got lucky. I did both brackets based on one side. If the engine had been sitting crooked on the jack then the length of the brackets would have been wrong. I figured a 4 bolt bracket was better. With 2 or 3 if the motor started to tilt the CV joints could just rotate. I also wanted the bracket to be as vertical as possible. That way the force on them was up or down.
The last minute thing that worked out really well and made the engine more stable was the block of wood I cut to fit the very back of the block. It has a cutout for the last case bolt.

To the drawback.
This tranny jack is so big I have never gotten anything out from under a car with it on the jack, except for this motor. I usually have to set whatever I have pulled on jack stands the procariously lower it down to a dolly.