Looks like I'll finally be putting my new oil pan gasket on this weekend. I have a cherry picker(engine hoist), but I need to know where I can attach the chains at to lift the motor up a little bit.

Thanks

 

intake manifold bolts.

 

Do I just back two bolts out enough to get a link of one of the chains around it?

 

i used the bolts with the stud on top of them, back the nut off then put the chain and nut back on, that way you dont break any kind of seal with the intake manifold and heads

 

Ok, Thanks guys!

 

I know there was a company that sold this special angled atatchment that was suposed to make it easyer to pull engines from the top..... dont remember axactly who, TPIS comes to mind. I wonder if TPIS is still in bussness? I tryed surching for there web site but could not find it

 

you don't need a cherry picker to change your oil pan gasket. a floor jack with a block of wood on the oil pan to lift it then two short pieces of 2x4 under the motor mounts to hold the engine up.

 

Well I'm just looking for the easiest way here..... I was going to do it that way before, but now that I have access to a cherry picker I figured it would be easier

 

oh your just changing the oil pan. thats easy just remove the part that the engine bolts to, while your at it install a tubular kmember

 

I wish I had the $$ for a tubular K member!

 

The "Happy Hooker".

 

how hard is it to instal a tubular k member.......i wana do it on my 3rd gen but i just got done doing the motor swap

 

I used the "Happy Hooker" from TPIS. It is $40.00 bucks.

www.tpis.com
Pg 110 of the on-line catalog. Just search for Happy Hooker.

I like it. You do not have to use any chains. Just remove the fuel rail and bolt it to the intake manifold. You do not even have to remove the hood.

 

Well crap, looking under the hood it looks like it's going to be a real mutherf*cker to chain that cherry picker up ANYWHERE on the top of the motor. I was half tempted to wrap a chain around a primary tube on the header on each side, but I think I'll try the jack trick

 

The happy hooker will ease all your troubles.. take the advice spend the 40 bux..