Major Surgery for 4072

Adjustable homemade engine puller

Lifting from body

42 year old carpet and padding now gone making room for new Hall Pantera carpet

Center consol cut down the middle and rotten stock pipes removed.

A word of caution on your carpet install.

You should check for full fit and coverage ...before... gluing anything.

I blindly started at the front, gluing tight to the firewall and proceeding rearward. Got to the rear bulkhead and was about 1 1/2" short.

ARRRRGH!

Stretch while installing, perhaps use a few sheet metal screws to anchor without glue and then stretch to confirm good fit.

Good luck.

Larry

Super cool engine puller. You should do your article about that, or at least more pictures!


Rocky

Rocky, thanks buddy rigged this up to allow a socket set move and tilt the motor. Hydrolic line pulled. Simple for two people with no fear of hitting glass.

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Originally posted by dave cantagallo-canada #4072:
Rocky, thanks buddy rigged this up to allow a socket set move and tilt the motor. Hydrolic line pulled. Simple for two people with no fear of hitting glass.

Are you not scary that the bolts/tread ends come out of the intake?

Simon

Simon,

The lifting of an engine by the intake threads is very common here in the USA.

I have never heard of a failure using this method.

We call them lifting plates and they are found everywhere and are inexpensive.

Larry

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Originally posted by Simon:..

Are you not scary that the bolts/tread ends come out of the intake?

Simon

I had the same fear when I first saw one of thos plates. But I did the calcs for that size bolt, that depth in aluminum and the pull out force was high enough for even me to use one.

my short term memory is gone, so this is just my gut, but I think using one bolt out of the 4 was just suffcient so using the 4 bolts gave me the 5:1 safety margin used for rigging, I would and recomend the bolts be torqued to the correct spec for being used in what ever metal the intake is

After 4 weeks of work in my buddy's garage 4072 is back home. Pulled motor and replaced main seal,pulled corroded Center pipes and replaced with stainless,replaced heat at and carpet,master clutch from Pi Motorsport, amp meter for a voltmeter and put stock gauges back....phew

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