How to remove a motor from a shed..
How to remove a motor from a shed..
1965 911 Factory Paint to Sample Orange
1967 911S Bahama Yellow
1968 911 S Blood Orange
1971 911S Gold Metallic Peter Gregg
1974 Carrera RS Blue Metallic
1990 RUF RCT Estonia's car
thats not my motor is it? :P
-Kris Clewell
Professional photojournalist
red decklid club member #1
Just get some wheels under it. A fork lift would be ideal to do all the heavy lifting but if that's not a possibility, think of a block and tackle. If not that - jack it up.
Two things are needed lifting it and moving it.
Lifting: 2x4's 6' to 8' make great leverage handles to get the engine up off the floor. The basics of cribbing is to raise one end - block then raise the other end till it's high enough to get a cart under it.
Hoist it: The engine can be bolted to a lifting chain - four bolt points - chain lengths 4 to 5 feet each - back of the engine support bar end bolt to end bolt, second chain bolted to the two top transmission bolts (one is the starter bolt), bring the chain centers together over the top of the engine - bolt or hook to the center of the chains and lift. Engine hoist or a block and tackle are made for this. That lifting hook on the top of the engine only functions if the transmission is in place to balance it.
Once you get it off the deck slide something with wheels under it.
I delivered an engine on a two wheeled hand truck (dolly). Bolted a wood block 2x12 to the floor plate, so not to have metal to metal to the fly wheel, tipped it up and wheeled it around. Ramps would have been better. Loaded it with the handle slides taking the contact to the tail gate. 400lbs on a two wheeler is do-able, with two people lifting and the other end sitting on the tail gate.
Transmissions move very nicely on a small furniture moving cart. Last one was moved on the wooden mechanics creeper.
Even a plywood plate with four caster wheels under it will allow them to be moved.
Sliding and dragging on wood only if you have to. Sliding on hard surfaces is not cool.
I've got a milk crate filled with 16" length cut 2x4's and 4x4's just for the blocking up heavy parts to get a floor jack of cart under them.
Bob
Early S Reg #370
I was tasked to get rid of a 1937 Pontiac 223 engine a couple years ago. I had the perfect person in mind. He showed up with his old Studebaker pickup, a comealong, a chain, and the surfboard rack he made for the truck. We had a 4x4 and some tools.
It started out like this:
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And turned into this:
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Bob has some excellent ideas. At least it's near the door.
Once you take away all the loose parts, how much is actually left to be lifted? I'd probably go the lever and cribbing route until the heavy part was high enough to be slid over the sill to freedom. Please keep us posted with pictures.
one section of scaffold, one timber couple of slings and a chain fall away ya go!
You guys must be engineers two guys can lift a 911 engine without much fuss.... dragged many 911 engines out of worse then that with just a little help. Nice find by the way Tate!
Tony Proasi
52 split window coupe
Got dang it Tate, your about 6 foot 13 and a half, snatch that thing up and throw it in the truck!!!!!
70E Albert Blue
Member #1906
No problem for a couple of Georgia Tech Engineers. Ground was wet so no Cherry picker. Step one. Find a hood off of a GEO Metro. Step 2. Tied the hood to your Truck. Step 3. Drag the hood across the lawn to the driveway. Very simple. T
1965 911 Factory Paint to Sample Orange
1967 911S Bahama Yellow
1968 911 S Blood Orange
1971 911S Gold Metallic Peter Gregg
1974 Carrera RS Blue Metallic
1990 RUF RCT Estonia's car
Man never thought a geo metro would come in so handy. I love back yard solutions.
Tony Proasi
52 split window coupe
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