Engine stand requirements
- Thread starter Oakhurst
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JSeery
Member Emeritus
Easy to make or buy. Attached are just a few examples, there are many other designs. Basically a 45 deg angle. You can use an exhaust manifold or gasket for a pattern. I built a plate on mine to bolt to the existing stand mount, but you can also built it with a new tube.
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FFESA - S85 $67.00
Ford Flathead 85-100HP 59AB/8BA
Engine Stand Adapter
Comes with mounting hardware ...................$67.00
http://stumpysfabworks.weebly.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
mikebishop
Member
I'd like to add a caution about engine stands fitted with a side-mount for the Ford flathead V-8. Three-wheel and narrow-track four-wheel stands aren't up to safely handling the lateral loads of the cross-mounted flathead. They're just barely safe with longitudinally mounted modern engines where the loads are more closely spaced to the rotational axis.
I suggest adding some width to both sets of legs on a four-wheel stand, or doing the same on a three-wheel stand plus adding another set of wide two-wheel legs at the front.
Better still, for $130 you can buy one of the most-convenient, stable engine stands available anywhere from Harbor Freight. I used one of these as a stand for my flathead porting fixture for several years with total safety and stability, in spite of the increased rotating weight of the porting fixture being rotated many times during the course of a job. As a plus, this stand folds up to a depth of about 18-20 inches, and with three wheels on the floor is easy to move around.
FWIW, I have no connection to Harbor Freight other than as a customer. Every so often they hit one out of the park and this engine stand is one.
Mike
I suggest adding some width to both sets of legs on a four-wheel stand, or doing the same on a three-wheel stand plus adding another set of wide two-wheel legs at the front.
Better still, for $130 you can buy one of the most-convenient, stable engine stands available anywhere from Harbor Freight. I used one of these as a stand for my flathead porting fixture for several years with total safety and stability, in spite of the increased rotating weight of the porting fixture being rotated many times during the course of a job. As a plus, this stand folds up to a depth of about 18-20 inches, and with three wheels on the floor is easy to move around.
FWIW, I have no connection to Harbor Freight other than as a customer. Every so often they hit one out of the park and this engine stand is one.
Mike
Walt Dupont--Me.
Well-known member
That's a good looking stand but it's kind of hard to install cam bearings, cam, front cover.. Walt
Oakhurst
Senior Member
Not sure how to PM you. Where in Socal, I am interested. Mine is a 21 stud, original I think to my 36. Are all exhaust maniford bold patterns the same?
