engine stand

[Mistawall]

im gonna buy this engine stand. yay or nay?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-918011/overview/

with these bolts

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-g1012/overview/

[Neil1138]

That'll work fine, however...

Harbor freight engine stand (might save on shipping) + run to lowes for the metric bolts. Lowes/Home depot had the 90mm/100mm bolts. People say to use this length (I guess in an effort to match the length of the stock bell housing bolts) however, the bolts are far too long. They thread in at least 15mm past their full thread engagement which does nothing for thread stripping (load capacity) from an engineering standpoint.

[Poeman446]

Agreed, If you have a Northern Tool or Harbor Freight nearby, go there and pick up an engine stand. You can even use the transmission bolts to connect the engine to the stand, but use washers to space it correctly. This is probably the absolute cheapest route to go. If you want to get he correct bolts you can, but I used washers and the larger bell housing bolts

[Nick_S]

I used a harbor freight stand with the transmission bolts. My m50 sat on the stand for a good 2 months and actually only had 3 bolts in it.

[iansane]

That looks's the SAE bolt kit?

[matthugie]

You can probably find one on CL for half that. Pretty sure I paid 20 for mine, which I sold post swap for 30.

[Colby.325e]

I have that stand. Nice and sturdy.

[Mistawall]

i saw the harbor freight one. i didnt like the T shape i felt this one would have a little more stabilty. i dont actually have the transmission bolts. so i need to purchase a set of those to install my tranny later actually... any one got that part number by chance? lol anyway i bought the mout will probly just go down to the hardware store and get the bolts. thanks for the feed back!

[nrubenstein]

Had also has a much better 4-wheel stand, last I checked. I completely agree that the T base is terrible.

[nando]

i saw the harbor freight one. i didnt like the T shape i felt this one would have a little more stabilty. i dont actually have the transmission bolts. so i need to purchase a set of those to install my tranny later actually... any one got that part number by chance? lol anyway i bought the mout will probly just go down to the hardware store and get the bolts. thanks for the feed back!

HF has a 4 wheel version as well

[AndrewBird]

Unless you are wheeling the engine a round a bunch, the T stands work fine. This is what Josh had when we did his M50 swap and it worked fine. If you need to wheel it around a bunch though, better off getting the 4-wheel one.

[Mistawall]

yea i got it in my jobs garage need to be able to move it around so my boss lets me keep it there :)

[Mistawall]

ok i bought m12x1.75 80mm hopefully they work. just trying to get this stupid auto flywheel off so the stand will mount to it i wasted liek 1.5 hours last night because of that stupid flywheel. couldent get it off cuz it kept turning when id try to losen it. any thing i can use to keep it from turning whe i go to losen it? i lack an impact gun atm.

[Mistawall]

Im trying to get that thing off



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[Roysneon]

Remove the 8 bolts?

You'll also have to take the starter off to put it on a stand.

Edit sorry didn't see your previous post. Try putting the end of a pry bar in the tooth of the wheel and bracing it against something. That's what I had to do when torquing mine down. Worked ok