Lifting an inline six engine

[65 Mustang]

Hello Everyone,

Was looking for some advice on how I might lift my inline six off of my garage floor and onto an engine stand. I have a shop crane as well as the Oberg engine tilt (if any one is familiar with it). My question is where is the best place to screw the tilt onto the engine? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Gene Fiore]

If the head is off you can use a head bolt at opposite corners of the block to fasten a chain. That's the only way I have ever done it on the inline6. I'm sure others will chime in.

 

[bubba22349]

In the past I have used a chain hooked up on the passenger side rear of head or below on the block stretching over to the front on the drivers side of block. With the chain being longer I then make a lifting loop using a bolt, moving the loop position forward or backward to find wherever it needs to be to balance or angle the engine. I have not had or used an engine tilt but that should make it even easier to balance the engine. One other note on my 77 Maverick 250 it has nice factory lifting brackets that would make it much simpler sorry don't have any pictures of them but you might be able to search the old posts for some pictures. They would be a nice addition for any inline six to make it a faster and a more in balanced hookup. Good luck

 

[CoupeBoy]

Take a gander at this 250 sitting in my Dad's barn.
It has the factory lifting brackets
At the rear on the passenger side there is a round eyelet hole that is a little hard to see because all the material is a weird shade of brown.
The front one you can see on the driver side right behind the location for the factory Air Pump (smog pump)
I'm working on reproducing these two brackets.

This is what I have so far.
I took off my front mount and cloned the measurements (mostly) and added a round hole at the top, I have not cut one of these yet.

When installed it would go here, which is the original road draft tube location.

For the rear bracket, I pulled a throttle linkage bracket off of my 170, I then measured the bolt hole spacing and where to put the bend, and came up with this.

This is the stock pad that I removed the throttle linkage bracket from.

I hope this helps.
-ron

 

[thesameguy]

I use a Harbor Freight leveler, which is roughly the same idea but more easily supports 3 or 4 lifting points. I replaced the upper motor mount bolt with an eyelet and run a loop of chain through the "front" of the leveler to each eyelet, and then a chain from the "rear" of the leveler to an eyelet at the bellhousing. Three points keeps it stable and gives good fore-aft attitude control.

 

[65 Mustang]

Thanks so much everyone for the replies. Really appreciate it. Pics were great. You've given me really great ideas and suggestions. It's good to have a whole bunch of ways to do something in case one doesn't work out. I do have another question. The engine stand I intend to put the engine on is a harbor freights model. What type of bolts (size, material, etc..) do you suggest using to secure the engine to the stand? Thanks again.

 

[JackFish]

Not sure of the size but they will be the same as the transmission bolts, right? 9/16"?
You'll need to know the length of the bolt holes on the support. Probably in the 5" -6" range with some big washers.
I use grade 8 but that's probably overkill.

 

[65 Mustang]

Ok. Thanks so much. Greatly appreciated.