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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky
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Anyone have an engine hoist I could borrow in or around Tacoma?
I really hate buying things, especially big things, that won't get used very often. I already have a shop full of things like that.
Things I can offer the use of in exchange:
Professional tire machine. Way cheaper buying tires online and mounting them myself.
Blast cabinet. Big enough to fit a motorcycle frame in.
Random specialty tools. Ask and I might have it.
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hartcreek
Location: Union Gap
Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2016
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Real Name: Randall Knapp
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What are you working on a van? I used barb door track and fastened it to the floor joists of my shops second story. I welded up a trolley to fit the track and use a chain hoist to pull and install engines. The track is inexpensive and if you do not want to spen the mnoney for a chain hoist use a come along. The track system I have sure makes it easier to load heavy stuff on my elevator to get it to the second story.
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jukk0u
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Location: Lynnwood and at large
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Real Name: Vick Lagina
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similarly, you can make a ghetto hoist with three steel poles. Using a huge bolt assemble them into a teepee/triangle. Come-along as hoist. installed a few big block Ford motors that way.
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky
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I have an I beam running across my shop with two chain hoists on trolleys, a one ton and a half ton. I also have a 14 ton boom truck. Unfortunately I'm working on a van. It's the biggest pain in the ass to get the motor out, I've done it once before. There's barely enough room to get the hoist in there. I'm seriously considering picking the body off the frame with the boom truck. The worst part would be trying to get it back on. 
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dusty
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Location: Mountlake terrace
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Real Name: R.Lee
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1st.....remove your front bumper..
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky
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dusty wrote: 1st.....remove your front bumper.. Won't do any good. The hard part is getting the oil pan over the cross member.
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hartcreek
Location: Union Gap
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It has been so long since I have worked on one of those blasted vans. I do remember that I pulled then engine more apart then you have done to get the clearance. I pulled the intake and heads off to get the clearance I needed plus the water pump. That shop hand should work once you get down to the block and get a chain slung across the top of the block with very little slack.
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CQBgopher
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Location: WA/MT
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AutoZone rents/loans them at some stores.
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RocketScott
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Location: Kentucky
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Ended up buying one off Craigslist. I'll put it back up for sale when I'm done with it.
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