Has anyone ever tried to use on of those motorcycle jacks for engine removal? It looks like the two rail on the jack could be positioned on each side of the engine, so that it is nice and stable.

--- On Fri, 6/20/08, Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET> wrote:

> From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
> Subject: Re: What's the easiest way to drop a stock engine? and some info              on floor jacks.
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 8:44 AM
> I would be careful if you do the job with one of those
> Harbor Freight
> floor jacks that are so inexpensive and light.  I have one
> that I like, but
> the release/lowering function is not very precise.  It
> often sticks as you
> turn the handle to release the hydraulic pressure and lower
> the jack.  Other
> than that minor fault, which you can work around, those
> aluminum floor
> jacks, China copies of $1000k racetrack jacks, are really
> great..lift an end
> of my van with no problem and you can carry the whole jack
> with one hand,
> easily.
>   Don Hanson
>
> Date:    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:53:33 -0700
> From:    Brendan Slevin <totorovan@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: I used a similar set up, with out the bricks
> though. I took out
> Totoro's
> engine with a floor jack underneath and a 4x4 wooden beam
> with a ratchet
> strap up top.  the ratchet strap/4x4 were really more for
> "safety"  if you
> can call it that, I just didn't want the engine to fall
> off the jack.   Put
> it in the same way nice and easy. A little finesse lowering
> the jack, then
> the ratchet, then the jack etc.
>
> Brendan