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I was going to suggest exactly this. A motorcycle/ATV jack has two nicely spaced long horizontal arms on it that the engine give you a good platform to slide under the complete engine/gearbox. Raise the car, wheel the jack under, disconnect everything, lower, wheel the complete thing away. Works great. I've installed a number of big, heavy things from underneath ranging from Alfa transaxles to complete 911 drivetrains, and I wish I'd had one of these things on hand. --- "David V.N." <rmcevoy1@twcny.rr.com> wrote: > Just to butt in here.... > Sears has a motorcycle jack(1200lb cap.) > that works perfectly!.Nice,wide stance with > rubber pads that fit the oil sump as if made for > it.It comes with straps that tighten,good swivel > wheels and a bottle jack to lift. > -- > David V.Nelson > Darkside ' 69 VW Fastback > '86 GW > '93 Firehawk > '90 Escort > rmcevoy1@NOSPAMtwcny.rr.com > davidvnelson@hotmail.com > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Russ Wolfe" <russw@classicvw.org> > To: "Type3" <type3@vwtype3.org> > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 5:34 PM > Subject: Re: [T3] AT & engine re-install > > > > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:14, Greg Merritt wrote: > >> Folks, > >> > >> I should have some time to reinstall my rebuilt > automatic transmission > >> this weekend. (Big thanks to Ron's Transaxles in > San Pablo, CA.) > >> > >> I'm inclined to mate the engine and transmission > on the ground before > >> lifting the whole drivetrain back into the car. > It seems to me that this > >> would make it easier to line things up and get > everything together > >> smoothly. I always have to fidget a lot with > position and angle on my MT > >> cars when I reinstall the engine, so it seems > like putting the engine & > >> tranny together on the ground would give more > flexibility. > >> > >> Jim, you previously mentioned that you install > the AT first, and then > >> follow with the engine. Jim -- or anyone -- what > are the advantages of > >> installing them one at a time? > >> > > I have done it both ways. It depends on the > stability of your jack with > > that much weight on it. I have a real transmission > jack with a wide > > base, that will lift over 700 lbs. Balancing that > much weight on an > > narrower floor jack could be tricky. BE SURE you > have some help, that > > understands what you are doing, and can take some > of the weight if > > things start to go wrong. > > If you try it, I would suggest, that you get a > couple 10mm studs, > > slightly longer than the original bolts that go > there, and put them in > > the bottom holes of the tranny mount, as pilots. > They need to be longer > > than the bolts that came out of there. After > everything is in place, and > > the other to bolts are tight, you can take them > out with pliers. > > -- > > Russ Wolfe > > '71 FB AT > > '66 FB MT > > '64 T34 (not running) > > '65 T1 (not running) > > '05 KIA Sorento SUV > > russw@classicvw.org > > http://www.classicvw.org > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | > mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail