Did anyone ever use an engine lift pate bolted to an aluminum intake manifold . Im guessing there is a good chance that you could break the intake manifold.
It will be fine,guys do it all the time.
Anybody else do this?
My curiosity is will it hold the engine and tranny together? I assume the tranny has to seperate and come out from below? About to do the same thing.
As long as you thread the plate mounting bolts or studs all the way in and the threads in the intake are in good shape I can't see why not. I'd still take the tranny out from underneath though - just because it's easier to wrangle the engine out by itself than it is with 4 feet and 250 pounds of ballast hanging off its arse
Yep engine plate works fine. I just used one to pull out the engine in mine.
Yep. Me and a buddy spent Friday trying to get a roller 302 and a C4 into his originally I6 '66 Mustang. Not bloody fun when they're bolted together :hick:
Foose did it on one of those series where he took that stang and dropped a boss into it. IT still had the tranny on also.
Anyway, im like you , seems kinda sketchy doing that. That bad part on that show foose was doing, they only used two carb bolts,,lol Looked funny and scary as heck if you ask me.
I've done it over and over.
After my last incident with an allumnium intake, I wouldn't. Just me though.
Some yes and some no.....
(84 fila) What was the incident, did the intake break.
As stated above, as long as your threads in the intake are good and you run the bolts all the way down, you will have no problem. I have done it a few times with the 5.0 on a few cars and never with even the hint of trouble. If you do it right, there is no concern. I made a bracket of my own to sit on top of the intake out of two pieces of angle iron (welded together) so I could use all four upper intake/lower intake holes and put multiple holes on the backbone of the angle iron toward the center so I could adjust for balance when pulling and installing the engine.
:beatyoass: Putting new carb studs in with a carb spacer, the intake cracked right along one of the studs. Went to remove and a cunk about the size of a quarter came out. I blame me, but it was an old allumnium intake too. Just don't trust allumnium anymore. Too bad I'm getting a new allumnium intake on saturday hopefuly:hick: