Thread: Engine Lifting

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This story involves two bored brothers with access to a backhoe. The names have been changed to protect the guilty.

The shop manager tells my brother to drive the backhoe out to the far end of the lot and flip over one of the wrecked work trucks and pull the rear end out of it for one of the other trucks in the shop. He said he needs some help muscling stuff around and I offer to go with him. Along the way my brother is showing me the proper way to get a backhoe to pop wheelies and we really didnt run in to too much stuff on the way to the back of the lot. Once we find the wreck to flip I'm joking and told my brother that there was a special option where Chevy pickups had hoods that opened forward like a Corvette, and this truck was one of them. He's looking at me like I'm crazy and I swung the backhoe around and hook the back side of the hood and snap the control lever "accidently" putting the bucket through the truck windshield... and proceed to fold the hood forward, ripping it off the hinges. He looks at me and says, did you know you can remove a quadrajet without unbolting it?

He hooks the teeth of the bucket under the Qjet and proceeds to lift the entire front end of the truck off the ground by about five feet. It took a few minutes of bouncing the front end of the truck by the carb bolts before anything broke loose, and it was the carb that broke, not the bolts.