overhead hoist?
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overhead hoist?
so..... We did some measurements and my plan for popping the engine back in isn't going to work. My engine hoist isn't high enough and my overhead hoist inside the garage won't clear it either. My fathers car lift at his new house wouldn't go up high enough either to get it up and over the back of the boat, so before I start doing some serious unpolitically correct engineering, anybody got a good rig setup in the pasadena or surrounding areas for helping me get the 540 back in the rear of the check? beer, pizza, cash, just lemme know.
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so..... We did some measurements and my plan for popping the engine back in isn't going to work. My engine hoist isn't high enough and my overhead hoist inside the garage won't clear it either. My fathers car lift at his new house wouldn't go up high enough either to get it up and over the back of the boat, so before I start doing some serious unpolitically correct engineering, anybody got a good rig setup in the pasadena or surrounding areas for helping me get the 540 back in the rear of the check? beer, pizza, cash, just lemme know.
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If you have a local Cummin's, Catapillar service shop etc. this works well.
It's all remote control, so he can see exactly what he is doing.
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Actually Cummins is how the old engine came out. When I worked up there a few years ago I brought the boat up to the shop and picked it with our shop's overhead crane. Unfortunately, the local dealer has been going through some things, all the guys I knew that worked there that coulda helped me on this no longer work there, and I don't have the shop to use.....
The other hillarious part is that I work for Caterpillar now, however I'm a field engineer on the large switchgear side, so I know absolutely nobody on the service sides whatsoever..... I actually work from home and my office is listed as Manassas, VA even though I got 9 other locations closer to me. They also do not allow using stuff like the elkridge shop for personal stuff as far as I know.
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so..... We did some measurements and my plan for popping the engine back in isn't going to work. My engine hoist isn't high enough and my overhead hoist inside the garage won't clear it either. My fathers car lift at his new house wouldn't go up high enough either to get it up and over the back of the boat, so before I start doing some serious unpolitically correct engineering, anybody got a good rig setup in the pasadena or surrounding areas for helping me get the 540 back in the rear of the check? beer, pizza, cash, just lemme know.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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I'll pm you my number and we can get together on it
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If you live near Back River Neck Rd call Bill at FMR Towing 443-956-0844. I use him to pull and install engines in my Sonic several times now. He knows how to do it w/o damaging a thing. Gave him like $75 to do both engines.