Thread: 327 Bare Block Weight

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I got a 350 SBC long block on a pickup bed and after building brought it home from the machine shop and mounted it on an engine stand using 2"x6" boards under a plywood sheet leaning on the back of the pickup bed. If the 2"x6" are long enough you get a gradual slope that you can gradually "walk" the engine up on the sheet metal pan. Of course it comes "down" a lot easier but you can walk it up with alternating firm nudges if the pan is on the bottom. When I got it home in the garage the engine stand was maneuvered to match the level of the pickup bed and the block was bolted onto the stand and the pickup driven away. After bolting on the heads we put it back on the truck and took it to a shop with a small crane to mount the engine in the frame but we had to get it into the truck to take it that second shop, Forget "lifting", just use "sliding" on a gradual ramp. I did have help from my adult son so it is a two man job. As I recall I steadied the block while mounting it with a comealong hooked to a garage beam but most of the moving was done by shifting/sliding the engine on the semi-round pan. I think the idea depends on having the pan on the bottom of the engine. I have had a hernia but it was repaired about a year before that and actually "walking" the block was pretty easy with no actual lifting.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Bare block--- two guys----no problem!!!