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[poosc]

Model: Racing Flame special edition
Year: 1989
Description of problem: Right well me and my dad have just hired an engine hoist thing for the weekend so we can remove the engine! However i have a slight problem. We don't have any brackets or anything to remove the engine. How exactly do you remove it? I've looked in my Haynes manual but it doesn't actually have anything about it (i don't think!) I can see in a picture that he took the rocker cover off and had some sort bracket attached where he looped some rope around it. Is there anyway of doing it without a special bracket or is there anyway we could make something that would suffice? Thanks! Would greatly appreciate a quick reply even if you have a suggestion as we've got to get the engine out this weekend!!

[Kam]

I bought some engine brackets to do the same as you but never ended up using them, I posted up about this aswell before doing minie

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Get some High Tensile rope and go for the wrap-around-jobbie on the crane, I ended up getting some lifting rope from machine mart which worked spot-on aswell, I'll check the length for you....

[stormintrooper]

yh, i bought some rope from the place where i hired mine, wraped it round 4 or 5 times, attatched to hoist and away it went

do not use washing line rope

[dave21478]

I have a set of old seatbelts I cut up to use the webbing for this sort of thing.
Tie one end to the clutch slave cylinder mounting and the other end round the waterpump pulley and it comes out fine.

[lrostoke]

Not sure what state your engine is in, but we've just removed an engine from a 1990 ,If you are just removing the engine and leaving everything else intact, you get a lot more room to manourve the engine if you remove the water pump. plus also the clutch slave cylinder and bracket.Also starter motor.

With the servo in place you need to get the engine over to the right and also tilt it upwards on the righthand side.

Like mentioned above just wrap some strong rope round the bellhousing end, and run a loop under the casting the righthand engine mount bracket bolts to, bring the two loops together in roughly the middle.

We actually lifted ours out by hand with a scaffold tube and just lifted (person each end). Do admit used hoist to drop it back in was just easier to manouvre with the hoist.

[Kam]

Get some High Tensile rope and go for the wrap-around-jobbie on the crane, I ended up getting some lifting rope from machine mart which worked spot-on aswell, I'll check the length for you....

I ended up getting two 3m lifting ropes as they didnt have any 6m in stock, get a minimum of 5-6m and you be fine.

If you do use two 3m its doable allbiet borderline dangerous if your a health n safety freak kinda person

[poosc]

awesome guys! Yeh we have a load of rope and also some of those heavy duty straps you use to tie a car down on a trailer. I'll let you guys know how it goes on!

[Turbo Nick]

i've seen a pic of a chap using 2 fan belts to lift one out.

we just used to lift it out ourselves with a bar and a bit of tow rope.

[Big_Adam]

Remember kids, a mini engine weights less than a VERY heavy/fat person. As I've used a wheelchair (rather battered one too) to move an engine about.

[Guess-Works.com]

Make yourself a bracket from a piece of angle iron, which bolts to the two longer (outer) rocker pedestal studs and then a hole for a D shackle in the middle

Will not take long and then allows removal of engine straight up... no dangers of ropes slipping or anything like that...

like this....

Edited by GuessWorks.co.uk, 24 October 2008 - 06:38 AM.

[998dave]

Make yourself a bracket from a piece of angle iron, which bolts to the two longer (outer) rocker pedestal studs and then a hole for a D shackle in the middle

Will not take long and then allows removal of engine straight up... no dangers of ropes slipping or anything like that...

like this....

And if you do it like this, and put the angle iron on the right way round, it'll tilt the engine to help it come out!

But I cheated last time I done it, and used some rope and a JCB.

[Sammy D]

Before I've used ratchet straps and old seatbelts.

[Sammy D]

Before I've used ratchet straps and old seatbelts.

[somecrapname]

chain and a tow rope! didn't think about it when i rented the hoist, they supplied a chain an i assumed it'd do putting it back in the rope slipped and we nearly dropped the damn thing! lol. good times.

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