327 mounting points for engine pull
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Burning Brakes
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327 mounting points for engine pull
I'm nearly ready to pull the standin engine. I've got a "big red" with a leveller. Chains on leveller are too short to do a crossover from exhaust manifold holes at #1 & #8. Is there any reason why I couldn't backout the bolts on the four corners of the intake manifold and hookup there for the pull? Thanks -- Bill
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Burning Brakes
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If you're going to re-use those exhaust manifold bolts, run them down against the lift eyes. If you let them stick up too far, the weight will bend the bolts.
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The method that always scared me is the plate mounted to the carb flange. I always felt like it put too much stress on an aluminum manifold.
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I think the C3 used only one bolt for the decking eye in the rear of the engine on the head. That decking eye carried the rear of the engine and the transmission. I believe it was a single grade 5 bolt. There's not that much weight to shear a grade 5.
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Burning Brakes
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I did the best I could but I'm working with an uneven surface at the corners of the manifold. Regardless, it'll be a pleasure to buy new bolts after this. Wife is going to help. I told her that "the couple that pulls an engine together stays together". She corrected me and said, "honey, I think that's prays together". So I said "let's pray we get this engine out without damaging my vette!" Don't think she appreciated my humor.
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i always use an x chain from corner to corner....jmo...
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wife is going to help. I told her that "the couple that pulls an engine together stays together". She corrected me and said, "honey, i think that's prays together". So i said "let's pray we get this engine out without damaging my vette!" don't think she appreciated my humor.
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I thought the same way. However, the engine shop I used (S&S Machine in San Leandro CA) has never had a problem in over 50 years of pulling and building engines using a plate that bolts to the carb flange on the intake, which is aluminum on my L79. Looks scary but works; like anything, though, Bubba can screw it up by being sloppy and inattentive.
