- 1. Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:22:15 -0700
- Its a little off-topic but it is pre-war British car... I need to look into shipping a motor from New York to S. Calif. for my 34 Singer and I don't even know what the thing weighs so anyone done thi
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00024.html (8,244 bytes)
- 2. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Fred Talmadge <fredtal@industryinet.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:10:00 -0500
- The best way to ship something like this is by freight. Build a wooden box or frame around the engine and gearbox. Seperate or together it wont really matter. Wraping in plastic wouldn't be a bad ide
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00025.html (7,857 bytes)
- 3. RE: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: "Gene Gillam" <anngene@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:24:13 -0500
- BE CAREFUL!!!!! I just had two (2) MG T-series XPAG blocks shipped to me via UPS - the blocks came from two different people - and they (UPS) dropped and cracked both blocks in the bellhousing area.
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00026.html (7,969 bytes)
- 4. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:02:35 -0500
- Mike> willing to separate the gearbox if that helps, he estimates that Mike> it can't weigh more than 200lbs but I question that since the Mike> gearbox alone is 64lbs. For this sort of stuff I thin
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00027.html (7,759 bytes)
- 5. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: DEVierling@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:34:06 EDT
- Nope, that's too heavy for UPS and they really aren't set up for that kind of item. Truck freight is the way to go. Find a used pallet (many businesses have them stacked up out back by the dumpster)
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00029.html (8,977 bytes)
- 6. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Rikrock@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:44:40 EDT
- Last year I shipped a motor from Philadelphia to Los Angeles, using a company called Forward Air. Don't let the name fool you, they use trucks as well as planes. They do have a website, I think the
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00030.html (8,087 bytes)
- 7. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Hamilton <hamilton@accesswave.ca>
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:50:27 -0300
- I shipped a very heavy cast iron Sunbeam Talbot engine (~700#) with gearbox attached from New Mexico to me in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada. I did just like Donny said, I had it strapped i
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00031.html (10,949 bytes)
- 8. Re: Motor shipping (score: 1)
- Author: DEVierling@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:12:44 EDT
- Oh, yes that's right, airfreight is often a slightly more economical alternative to truck freight and...surprise!...if it doesn't have to be there in a hurry, it goes on the ground in a truck! (Hint:
- /html/british-cars/2002-10/msg00032.html (9,078 bytes)
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