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Posted by: scotty b Feb 22 2012, 10:12 PM

What have you found to be the best way to install ? I'll be installing Jim's engine next week ( hopefully )and being that it is freshly painted, and my first time installing a V8, I am thinking a carb plate and the cherry picker going through from the top and lifting the engine UP from the bottom Not sure the cherry picker will even get that far under the car yet

Posted by: RJMII Feb 22 2012, 10:22 PM

lift the car up on the hoist, put the engine on jack stands... line the engine mount points up with a plumb bob, then lower the car down.

Posted by: kg6dxn Feb 22 2012, 10:24 PM

The first time I used a cherry picker lifting the motor while the car was on a lift. Maybe 3-4 feet in the air. This allowed me to fab the engine cross bar. It was a Ford 5.0, nobody makes a kit.

Tha next time (Chevy), I installed it just like a T4. engine/tranny rolled into place and lifted up with 2 jacks.

Posted by: RJMII Feb 22 2012, 10:25 PM

or cherry picker method you described.

Posted by: Andyrew Feb 22 2012, 10:27 PM

From the top is NOT the way.

Engine/trani on a dolly, drop car down, install the 4 bolts....

Posted by: computers4kids Feb 22 2012, 10:35 PM

I like lowering the car down onto the engine, seems to work for me.

Posted by: rick 918-S Feb 22 2012, 10:36 PM

I built a rolling stand for mine. I jack the car up, roll the engine under it, and lower it down a little at a time until I have the bolts for the cross bar mount lined up. I set the car down, slip the bolts in and nut it up. Then just jack the car up far enough to get my stand out.

Posted by: jmmotorsports Feb 22 2012, 11:51 PM

I use this hydraulic lift cart. Keeps the engine and trans very stable,roll it under the car, lift it into position. Works great for pretty much any engine and trans combo you would want to put in a 914

Jerry

Posted by: jimkelly Feb 23 2012, 05:12 AM

ass up high : ) and furniture dolly

lower car to engine bar - then lift trans mounts to mounting points




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Posted by: andys Feb 23 2012, 11:55 AM

Up from the bottom, if you have an adequate jack. I built my own dedicated jack as I knew I would have to measure and fabricate requiring many install/removals. This jack collapses to 4 1/2".

Andys




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Posted by: rohar Feb 23 2012, 12:22 PM

QUOTE(andys @ Feb 23 2012, 09:55 AM)