From the Mitsubishi forklift engine department comes this special Engine Stand bonus how-to edition of Tool of the Week. The Engine Stand is a purposeful tool that is designed to hold an engine block for dismantling and assembly. While these stands are great to have around, they do not posses an abundance of utility when not holding up an engine. Most engine stands are often seen in their natural habitat of back yards, or sides of houses half covered by a blue tarp. Up until recently, one of the Clunkbucket engine stands was holding up a spare Toyota 4K-C engine in the garage, and the other languishing in the back yard, holding up a blue tarp. The clarion call of free parts from the internets along with a drive to the wine country has since put the spare engine stand back into useful service holding up yet another Mitsubishi G54B turbo engine block. In the processes of this engine transport excursion we not only figured out that the Starlet can carry a spare engine, but that an engine stand can be used as a fulcrum to extract an engine block from the Starlet. We also put to the test the old maxim that free is always better than good. Read on for a step-by-step guide of something that by law we absolutely cannot recommend you attempt.
Step-by-Step Economy Engine Block Transport
You are a god amongst men Mr. Bumbeck. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
That reminds me of one of the AEU86 members who bought a Volvo B21ET engine for his Volvo 360 and moved it using his Toyota Corolla AE86:
http://www.aeu86.org/viewtopic/my-hachi-temporarily-mid-engined-)/t/1013
But knowing him and the state of his AE86 he didn’t take the same amount of precautions as you did. 😉
I have a now-empty engine stand sitting in my garage now. We just finished transferring the B20 Volvo engine from it into the Amazon. Unfortunately, my next project engine is a flat 6 Corvair lump. Ummm….yeah, it won’t fit on the stand. Hmmm…perhaps I’ll just mount up the next B20 project engine.
Now *that’s* a cool idea. Here I’ve been hulking them over the rear sill in a second gen DSM all these years! Pshaw. Never again!
My stand has never been so abused, however, laying stake to a clean, dry spot beneath my work bench in the garage for some time now. The big blue tarp resides in the backseat of the rally Galant behind locked door, lest the two make eye contact and a scuffle break out unsupervised.
Now, from the you’re doing it wrong files, this is the first time I’ve even seen a Mitsu block mounted to the stand by the side. Everyone I know uses the transmission mounting points to secure the block end-wise. This makes installation of the clutch, well, it makes installation of the clutch suck balls. I guess I figured the clutch alignment tool was required because someone knew we’d be bolting it to a block swaying less than gently in the breeze…
Bumbeck, you dog, I love you man!