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Posted by: mepstein Apr 26 2019, 09:44 AM

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Posted by: 914werke Apr 26 2019, 09:54 AM

ingenuity!

Posted by: 914Sixer Apr 26 2019, 09:57 AM

Yep, that will work

Posted by: Spoke Apr 26 2019, 10:09 AM

Where is this /6 going?

Posted by: johnlush Apr 26 2019, 11:43 AM

Is the tennis ball hanging there to encourage it to jump out on its own? I know that would work for my dog and she's German... :~)

Posted by: Rand Apr 26 2019, 11:50 AM

Make some pyramids!
I was always amazed how my dad taught me to use things. We moved thousands of pounds of machinery...A freaking 2000# drill press, along with multiple lathes and mills and such. He built a flatbed tilt-bed trailer and we winched things over pieces of pipe to move it along.

A little physics, some leverage...
Good use. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by: bretth Apr 26 2019, 12:47 PM

I have done this but not as safely as your setup looks. Lots of blocks of wood stacked on a carefully placed floor jack and some wide plywood to balance the engine on while slowly working it to the ground. I've done some stupid things to bring home new toys. Dirtbikes stuffed sideways in my old Datsun hatchback while there's still gas in the tank etc.

Posted by: mepstein Apr 26 2019, 12:59 PM

A lift table would have made it easy but I don’t have one at my house. My neighbor has motorcycles so I borrow his ramps. The trick is to lay down 4x4 in the car so I don’t have to lift over the lip of the car. It was a very controlled slide down the ramp. Took 1 minute to get it all done. I’ll throw a furniture dolly under the engine and put it in a corner. Just storing for a friend.

Posted by: mepstein Apr 26 2019, 01:00 PM

When my MIL lived with us, she could drive in until the ball hit her window, telling her to stop.

Posted by: porschetub Apr 26 2019, 02:25 PM

Well done,I did the same thing years ago when I needed to move my 2.2T,couldn't use the family stationwagon so loaded it in my trusty Mazda 323 wagon,had an interesting 35mile drive to my new place to say the least .

Posted by: bdstone914 Apr 26 2019, 03:04 PM

More like engineuity.

Posted by: Dion Apr 26 2019, 03:10 PM

Nice one Mark. Is that the Honda it was loaded in?

Posted by: 914werke Apr 26 2019, 03:40 PM

I see what you did there

Posted by: mepstein Apr 26 2019, 05:13 PM

Yes. My daughters CR-V. I took a 3.0 to Hershey in my wife’s CR-V but hadn’t used the 4x4 and it was a bitch to reach in and lift it over the lip.

I got my entire motorcycle in that car, in pieces, to take in to my builder for reassembly.


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Posted by: Unobtanium-inc Apr 28 2019, 08:10 AM

I have a guy who can do this.


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Posted by: Carl La Fong Apr 30 2019, 10:16 AM

Necessity is the Mother of invention. (I just made that up).

Posted by: Literati914 Apr 30 2019, 02:33 PM

I did something very similar when I brought home a 2056/4 in my volvo xc70 wagon.... I had the engine strapped to a furniture dolly and slid it up/down a SINGLE aluminum ramp. The wheels of the dolly hung down and straddled the ramp and it was all actually very solid/secure feeling while sliding on the dolly's frame. Then, once on the ground it rolled around nicely of course.

Posted by: mepstein Apr 30 2019, 02:43 PM

Yep. I got a HF furniture dolly so I could move it around easily. Worth it for $8.

I tried to move a tub on 2 HF steel furniture dollies. Each rated for 500lbs. The steel frames bent. I then slid in two HF wood furniture dollies and they were fine. The car was only 3" off the ground so I could afford to experiment but I was surprised at the results. HF took back the steel dollies.

Posted by: ThePaintedMan May 1 2019, 01:22 AM

I can power clean a Type 4 but not sure about a /6. Willing to try if I ever found one, lol.

Posted by: rick 918-S May 1 2019, 05:01 AM

928 into my Touring