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In my instance I had dismantled the engine and sent him the block and a mass of parts. I used a wooden pallet and strapped the block to it. I then boxed everything else up and strapped that to the pallet also. I sealed everything with a plastic sheet.
I previously had arranged with Larry at Kuntz, and I took the pallet to a Fedex freight depot. I used their account and it cost $390 from MA to AR, which I thought was pretty good, it weighed 550 lbs. The completed engine, cost $600 at 700lbs, not quite so good. I did ship quite a few parts that were not necessary, that would have saved on the shipping cost both ways.
They really packaged the engine well. The assembled engine was bolted to an engine stand and then bolted to a wooden pallet. They used 2x4's to make a frame around the engine and then screwed plywood to the crate and frame which also had plywood on the top. It was also wrapped in plastic. The other parts, flywheel, flywheel, etc were packaged inside. I collected it from the same Fedex depot and paid freight collect.