Engine Transportation

[Ferrino]

How do most folks transport engines, please? I have found a 4-banger long-block through car-part.com and they have little interest in helping me move it the 20 miles to my home (apparently I'm not spending enough with them to make it worth their while). While I'd love to show them a pair of fingers, it's a good price and low mileage unit. The pics show it strapped to a pallet and the weight is approx. 190 lbs: see below.

I have similar levels of interest in DIY-ing it, so who am I looking for to be able to lift this sucker at both the junkyard and my house? Or could this get rolled onto a trailer?

Thank you!

[JackDidley]

If its 190# can you not take it off the skid and get a guy to help ypu lift it by hand ?

[legion]

Rent a truck from Ryder?

[Ferrino]

Yes, I will eventually be using a hoist to install it. But I don't want to have to use one to load/unload if I can avoid it. So it sounds like a dolly and some lumber for ramps will work. Presumably I could just hire someone with a trailer for a little more than renting one?

[LEAKYSEALS951]

I remember a 944 engine I had in the driveway for years. Finally, a guy came and picked it up.

Literally- HE PICKED IT UP- and put it in his pickup. (Insert scene of "indian" ripping the sink out of the mental institution in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" and throwing it through the window. Mongo from "Blazing Saddles" also comes to mind.)

In a worst case scenario- What you need is to harness the power of 3-4 whiteys (at most )to put this in the back of a pickup/station wagon and drive it home. 20 miles? Beer money!

[mepstein]

A friend and a pickup or SUV.

I no longer have a big suv but I've moved 5 - 911 engines in the back of my wife's Honda CR-V. I bought a piece of 8' - 4x4 lumber, cut it in half and placed it in the back to act as a skid. Otherwise, the lip on the back is difficult to move the engine in and out. Most of the time I get a forklift to slide the engine in but I've done one with 3 people. I get the engine out with a pair of motorcycle ramps. I just pull the engine on a pallet down the ramps. Friction keeps it from moving too fast. I removed a fully dressed 3.2 (no trans) by myself a month ago. I only had to remove the electric fan to fit it in.

[Arizona_928]

I had a Jeep Cherokee for a little bit before I bought a truck. Picked up an engine for my sister in that Damn thing. Used the sellers cherry picker to put it in the boot. Used mine to get it out. Used same cherry picker to put into my sister's xj that was promptly crashed. Lol

I advise the same set up. 190 lbs is nothing if you're healthy. My vertebrae are royally ****ed so I can barely pick up a wrench on the ground, but a few years ago 190 dead lift was nothing.

You can keep it on the pallet or put it on a used tire, and a small strap to keep it from rocking in the boot of any sedan. Those engines are small.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by legion

Rent a truck from Ryder?

Rent a truck from homedepot, uhual ect ect

Put a listing on u ship! LOL

[Pazuzu]

I just did a 4-banger engine swap without a hoist, I spent an afternoon cobbling together a fulcrum and lever system from 2x4s and a lifting sling (which was the most expensive part at $30...). Mostly used the pallet that the engine came on, sideways, and an 8 foot length of lumber.

Worked great for picking up the fully loaded block AND tranny, and getting it on a dolly, then onto my ATV jack. If I had 2 other people around to kinda watch things, I could have lifted it into a pickup bed or something that high.

[ckelly78z]

Home Depot , and rent their pickup truck for a day. Harbor freight has an engine hoist for less than $200...which will also allow you to unload it, and install it in the car effortlessly.

[speeder]

Buy the engine hoist now, bring it w you and load it in a truck or car. Most junk yards aren't in the shipping business but sometimes know someone who can deliver it for a fee.

Car-part.com is simply a website listing parts at junkyards all over the country; your OP makes it sound like you are mad at them for helping you find your engine. That makes no sense.

[Ferrino]

No, I think you misunderstood. Car-part.com is awesome. I was just disappointed that the junkyard itself (who listed the engine through car-part.com) made zero effort to help me get it transported, by suggesting names of lic companies etc.


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[911 Rod]

You just need a friend.

[speeder]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

You just need a friend.

Don't we all.

[Ferrino]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up finding a much more friendly local breakers and they threw in free delivery the next day, contingent on me finding an engine hoist to get it off their truck. I was walking past my neighbor's house and saw an engine hoist on his driveway. He kindly let me borrow it and I now have the motor sitting on a dolly in my garage. I appreciate the help!

[Arizona_928]

Didn't even need a pulley on the tree in your yard!

[fastfredracing]

When I was young and poor, I would pull the passenger seat of my beater camaro, and I could roll/drag a small block right up in there with a few pieces of wood and a helper . I moved a bunch of them like that.
There should be a thread on how we have hauled things in the past sans truck

[aigel]

What speeder said.

Buy a hoist, break it down enough where it will fit your truck.
When at yard, assemble hoist, hoist the engine in bed
Take apart hoist, load it, go home.
Reverse at home ...

If you don't have a truck, SUV or wagon should do too.

This is how I always have done it. I think I was never without a truck or SUV in my life.

G

[Evans, Marv]

^^^^ He already said he got it from another place that delivered it for free.

[billybek]

Still a good topic.
I moved a Lincoln Weld and Power off a work table yesterday with two six foot ladders some 2x4s and a chainfall.
One of my old hernia repairs has been giving me some trouble the last while and I really don't want to go through that surgery again.