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engine lifting
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:27 pm
by mattyguk1
hi all,ive brought a pair of engine lifting brackets. are they designed to fit on the rocker cover studs?
Re: engine lifting
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:52 am
by austinisuseless
Used to use a a couple of parts made of small pieces of steel high-tensile wire arc-welded onto a couple of old cutdown spark plugs, and they worked brilliantly. Can't remember which plug holes though, must be one and four. Rose the engine out at the right angle - not too much crow barring it out at all.
Think one of Clive Trickeys early books it came from.
Re: engine lifting
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 6:22 am
by coop12g295
The brackets fit on the front outer head studs so the diff housing swings away from the bulkhead.Personally I use a Sykes Pickavant engine cradle bracket as it can be altered to lift vertical or on an angle, best £10:00 I spent
Re: engine lifting
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:59 pm
by YMJ
one L-shaped bracket on the centre head stud.....best 12p I ever spent!
Re: engine lifting
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:35 am
by mk1
The Sykes Pikavant lifting bracket is one of the best things I ever bought.
M-Machine do a modern version of the same thing.
Re: engine lifting
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 10:15 am
by GraemeC
On of these?:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT
Look to be fetching good money!
I am in the L bracket on centre stud camp - nice and simple. I have the Sykes bracket but have never tried it.