Thread: Am I nuts???.

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If it's a full dressed block it'll weigh in at about 535 to 575 pounds depending on if it has w/alum. intake or not. It will even less w/alum. heads. So unless you want to be picking your balls up off the ground when you do it I wouldn't even think about it.
That is unless you're about 20-25 or so years old & have the muscle to do it.
I know when I was in my 20's I could do it, but now a days I ask for help w/just the heads, unless I'm having a really good day & even then I am very cautious.
My advice even to the young ones here & I have said it several times.
USE the K.I.S.S. method "Keep It Simple Stupid" and my advice is use a chain hoist..joe

I just sat the BBC block in the camaro this morning by hand. It had the heads, mid plate & motor plate attached also. It was a piece of cake. But then it only weighed about 30 lbs.





I did set a bare block in a P.U. & assembled it in the truck because I didn't have a cherry picker available at the time. I was younger then.

A two ton cherry picker is only a few bucks to rent, and about 149.00 to buy at harbor freight. Money can be tight, but a broken foot or a strained back can plague you a long time, and make money even harder to come by. When I was a kid, I didn't have a lift and had to pull my 289 out of the mustang. We took the heads off, and all the peripheral stuff and then mounted a chain across the intake bolts. We then got a strong 2x4 and hoisted it out between two of us. The bad part about doing what you want is trying to attach it to the stand! That's hard even when the hoist is holding it! I'd take Don's suggestion about having the backing plate already bolted to the engine.