Swapping motors

[gimpyrobb]

I am getting ready to take out a motor with a spun brearing and put in a tested motor. Aside from removing the hood and fenders, what tips do you all have for a smooth swap?

 

[FMJ]

Plenty of cold beer......

 

[Barrman]

Do the entire radiator/engine/transmission pull like the -20 shows. Less stuff to unbolt and you won't even spill any fluids.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Re: RE: Swapping motors

Do the entire radiator/engine/transmission pull like the -20 shows. Less stuff to unbolt and you won't even spill any fluids.

Well, I'll do that taking the original out, but the one going in has no radiator or trans on it yet. Guess I'll have to bolt that up prior.

 

[Barrman]

RE: Re: RE: Swapping motors

The new truck going to have a winch? Put the winch on along with the pto shaft before you do the radiator. Less chance of screwing up the radiator and more room to work was what I found.

 

[m16ty]

I've done it and it's not very bad at all. I belive it's easier to pull the engine and trans together and swaping the trans to the new engine before you put it back in. If you've got to remove the radiator anyway I'd take it off before I removed the engine.

I use a forklift with a boom and hook it in two places with a come-a-long on one of them. That way you can tilt the engine as need be. The tight spots are between the IP and the steering gear and the primary filter and the pan. You can have one out and back in in a half of a day if you have some help.

One more thing, Some people say remove the fenders but I never have on the three I've done. You don't gain that much and you can have the engine sitting in the floor by the time you can get all the rusted fender bolts out.

I've never removed the hood either. All the way open it's out of the way.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Well, the truck with the bad motor has the winch on it already, so I don't know.

 

[Djfreema]

A forklift makes it so much easier. The come along on one end is good advice for tilting the motor and trans as one unit. Only problem we had with the forklift below was its tires are made for nice smooth flat concrete surfaces and it kept getting stuck. We had to make a plywood path for it everywhere we drove. I would'nt bother with removing the fenders.

 

[m16ty]

A forklift makes it so much easier. The come along on one end is good advice for tilting the motor and trans as one unit. Only problem we had with the forklift below was its tires are made for nice smooth flat concrete surfaces and it kept getting stuck. We had to make a plywood path for it everywhere we drove. I would'nt bother with removing the fenders.

That looks about like a 3,000# forklift. I'd say you had her at her max with the engine and trans that far out on the forks. I've used a 6,000# lift the times I've pulled one and it knew it had ahold of something.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Wonder if I'll notice it on the hook of my wrecker. BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

 

[m16ty]

Wonder if I'll notice it on the hook of my wrecker. BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA

I doubt it.

If it gets real bad I do have this at my disposal---but your going to need alot more plywood than Djfreema had .

 

[Offroadfabworks]

now them are nice

 

[Djfreema]

I dont know what the rating of the forklift was but it did'nt have any problems with the back tires wanting to lift up. I borrowed it from a friend to help my other friend change his motor, a wrecker would have been real nice to have. Ty, what piece of machinery is that in the pic?

 

[gimpyrobb]

If Ty is lifting it, its a scrap piece of machinery.

 

[m16ty]

It's called a 50 ton tri-lifter made by Riggers Manufacturing. In the pic we are lifting one end of a 100,000# stamping press at a factory that made Muray lawnmowers in Larenceburg,TN. We were getting ready to load it on a truck.

No gimpy, It's not scrap. Even after I lifted it . I'd like to have the money it would bring in scrap though.