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Re: [Spridgets] really dumb question, dont laugh

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] really dumb question, dont laugh
From: BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8@tx.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 16:12:48 -0500
I've built a LOT of engines, and never used an engine stand.  However 
for some things I think there might be an advantage.

We had a couple of steel tables in our shop, made out of steel pipe, 
steel angles, and pretty thick steel on the top.  We would set a block 
on the table upside down.  Then install the cam bearings, cam and 
crankshaft.  Then we would screw 4 of the bellhousing bolts into the 
back of the engine and turn it up on its back end.  The bolts would 
stick out enough to hold the block up and provide clearance for the 
flange end of the crankshaft.  Then we would put the pistons in, put the 
heads, intake, and covers on.  Then we would paint the whole thing.  (A 
little paint on the table never hurt anything.)  We would bolt a plate 
with a big loop on it in place of the carburetor (for V engines), pick 
the engine up with our hoist, and lower it into the car.

Nowadays it seems to be in vogue to use an engine stand, then one of 
those little wheel-around hoists to pick up the engine, bolt the 
transmission on and wrangle the whole thing into a car.  We had a hoist 
on a track in the roof of our shop, and we never put engine/transmission 
in at the same time.  We worked on lots of cars where this would not 
have been possible due to the size of the opening.  (I defer to the 
people with experience on LBC's regarding installing with or without the 
transmission in place, but for most other cars it is easier without.)  
Of course many cars these days use subframes and it is easier to drop 
the whole subframe out the bottom.



> I have painted lots of engines without an engine stand.  You have to  paint
> the bottom of the sump first or once it's in a car.
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