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What Heavy Equipment Will I Need to Do an Engine Swap?
Can you guys tell me what I would need ahead of time for the big costly stuff. Engine Crane, and Engine Stand, is that it? Do I need to buy some other sort of chain attachment that goes between the crane and engine?
When I did the engine swap in my 240 all I used was a engine hoist, a craftsman jack, and a bunch of jackstands.
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You can get an engine sling. Basically a chain with a middle piece that can move to equalize the load. A load leveler is optional but can make things much easier.
You will need jackstands and an engine crane at a minimum. An engine stand makes things 1000x easier. Obviously you will need a floor jack too.
For the chain, get some thick chain, thick enough to where the hook of the engine crane will fit through the chain.
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the equalizer makes things easier, but you don't need it. I have one and wound up pulling it off when I do about half my engine swaps.
I didnt even use one when I put the ls1/t56 combo in the RX7. The rx7 chassis was already pretty high off the ground so it went in pretty easily. If the custom cradle had fit better I would have had the engine in, in 15 minutes.. but instead it took 5 trys untill I finally figured out I needed to stretch the mounts appart from each other. Trust me no need for a load leveler
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Thanks guys - will take your advice, maybe i'll just save the money and exclude the balancer. Question -
1. Have you found any guides one the net to tell me the steps? I have a guy that's coming over that did it for his corvette before, but I'm concerned this is way more complicated.
2. Once I get it out of the car how do I attach it to the engine stand to work on removing the exhaust manifolds? It looks like it holds it sideways?
Basically, I need to remove all the exhaust manifold front & back studs, and I want to use the hoist instead of doing the work under the car. I want access to do the heating and probably rent a stick welder to weld nuts onto the studs to back them out once I remove the manifolds. I tried a stud remover tool that sort of grips around but I couldn't get it to work, I think it was SAE and it kept slipping for the header pipe flange studs.
Thanks guys - will take your advice, maybe i'll just save the money and exclude the balancer. Question -
1. Have you found any guides one the net to tell me the steps? I have a guy that's coming over that did it for his corvette before, but I'm concerned this is way more complicated.
2. Once I get it out of the car how do I attach it to the engine stand to work on removing the exhaust manifolds? It looks like it holds it sideways?
Basically, I need to remove all the exhaust manifold front & back studs, and I want to use the hoist instead of doing the work under the car. I want access to do the heating and probably rent a stick welder to weld nuts onto the studs to back them out once I remove the manifolds. I tried a stud remover tool that sort of grips around but I couldn't get it to work, I think it was SAE and it kept slipping for the header pipe flange studs.
I mounted mine onto the stand through the engine-to-tranny bolt holes.
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