Dropping a motor in- any last tips or advice?
If you are just doing an engine, hold off on installing the intake until it's in the car and use the intake bolts to attach a sling chain across the cam galley, into the heads.
Get the boom of the crane way down low, into the area where the intake would normally live.
If you can do this with a single sling of chain, go across " / " and use a bolt and nut through a link of the chain on either side of the crane's hook. The engine will want to turn 90° as it comes out. Let it. There is more room for the engine to come out sideways, with the hood on.
This also allows you to swivel the engine hoist 90° and come out over the fender, to pull the engine in a shallow garage, with the car's wheels still on the concrete pad of the garage.
I always pull engines with the front wheels on the ground. I get everything ready underneath and put it back down. Makes life easier not lifting a bunch and if you get the boom down low in the cam galley without a balancer, you don't need to mess with taking the hood off.
I elected to leave the heads off, but you can put them on and this still works without taking the hood off.
If you are just doing an engine, hold off on installing the intake until it's in the car and use the intake bolts to attach a sling chain across the cam galley, into the heads.
Get the boom of the crane way down low, into the area where the intake would normally live.
If you can do this with a single sling of chain, go across " / " and use a bolt and nut through a link of the chain on either side of the crane's hook. The engine will want to turn 90° as it comes out. Let it. There is more room for the engine to come out sideways, with the hood on.
This also allows you to swivel the engine hoist 90° and come out over the fender, to pull the engine in a shallow garage, with the car's wheels still on the concrete pad of the garage.
I always pull engines with the front wheels on the ground. I get everything ready underneath and put it back down. Makes life easier not lifting a bunch and if you get the boom down low in the cam galley without a balancer, you don't need to mess with taking the hood off.
I elected to leave the heads off, but you can put them on and this still works without taking the hood off.
