how to get engine onto engine stand
 

What's your preferred method for lifting your engine onto the engine stand by yourself? Do I need to buy a hoist or is there another way? If only Magnus Per Magnusen lived next door.

Charlie
Montara
1970 911E

either engine hoist, chain hoist or the super duper Drive Werks floor jack that has like 32" of lift!

I use a comalong from a roof beam in my garage.
-Chris

two friends with good backs.

I'll second the comealong idea. Just make sure your rafters can handle it, most can. There should be a lifting lug near the rear of the engine and use the mustache bar at the front to run a chain or strap through so you can lift it level.

Two burly neighbors, preferably one who works as a prison guard and one who is a PG&E lineman.

Give each one a beer, and then say, "by the way, could you help me out with something?" :D

I'll agree with John. To reasonably heathly guys can pick one up and move it no problem. We picked my 3.2 and placed it on a pickup when it was off for the rebuild.

One thing that might be obvious. If you are using the Porsche holding fixture P201 then you should bolt that to the engine first, then lift it onto the stand.

My boss and I easily lifted my 3.0 after the CIS was removed.

I'm most interested in how to do things "alone", as I typically get down to the garage sort of late at night after I get the kids to bed. I just lifted my engine onto the engine stand earlier today using a friend, two jacks, and stacks or wood. It was a little precarious, so I want a better method. I suspect I'll go with some sort of come-along system from a steel I-beam.

Charlie

Tim, you've been watching too many Batman reruns.

I just wonder how many broken knuckles I'll accumulate getting mine out of the back downstairs room....I tend to just do things by myself as well so the high-lift jack and adapter are looking good; especially without a beam or space for a lift where it's being assembled.

Charlie,
I don't know how I'd do it without those 2x6's (or 2x8's). I've hauled at least a few longblocks up by myself out of my car using just the rafters and the come-along.

I rented a hoist for $30/day. It was one of the breakdown models. Once it was disassembled, it fit in the bed of my truck along with the engine.

Harbor freight chain hoist. $49.
I don't want to walk like a brick layer when I'm 70 years old.

With the chain hoist, my 10 year old could do it. Oops, she's 12 now.

Best money you'll ever spend. Come Alongs SUCK. Who ever designed them should be shot. Can never get the SOB to unwind. I have one imported POS and 2 USA ones. The imported I'd like to throw away. But you never know, I might need it.

My .02c.

I'm solving the problem by building a jack that has a 42" lift.
This way I can lift the car, place the jack stands, drop the engine, then put it on the build stand all in one smooth operation.
I'll take pics when I do it....hope it works!
Bob

Ditto the chain hoist thing. I used one of the HF "one tons" to lift a 700# mill onto a stand. Far superior to those ratchet cable things. Screwed two eye bolts into an over head beam as a lift point. One screw was strong enough, but I wanted some redundancy. Someone mentioned this already, but the Pelican cherry picker adapter for the 911 motor looks worth it's weight in gold.

Geez, you guys are trying too hard. The AC jack boosts my engine right up to the engine stand level, with lift height to spare:

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/TOOL/POR_TOOL_ACHyd1_pg1.htm

Every jack I've sold gets rave reviews...

-Wayne

Now I can't find it. The jack saddle adapter, and cherry picker adapter, I thought Pelican carried them. Anyone remember who makes them?