Thread: Test run egine stand

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My son and I were talking, we should try to run the engine befor setting it in the car, well I'v seen guys run them on engine stands, but it don't look to safe, so we will have to pull the front clip apart down the road anyway, lets do it when the engine is finished, set it in there:---BUT----dad we won't have a trans for some time he said lets make some kind of a tail wheel we can bolt on to the bellhouse, something like an airplane has then we can run it, and still roll the car around, it might work

MY run in stand is mobil, has 4 caster wheels on it, a battery box, radiator, and a tranny, along with headers and long rubber tubes to direct the smoke and noise outside.. cost about 10 bux to build..

when i worked at the salvage yard a thousand years ago we cranked many an engine on the ground .. but they had the trans on mostly ..

I built this one from an old metal cart . I am using a 1958 Chevy 283 Radiator .

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=2Lt8hQDb178

i have an old camaro clip.

Wow; Tango now I feel bad I didn't get a picture of the one I built for my friends machine shop. It looks close to yours but in the back of the engine I had a plate
that would slide up or down for differant engines. Also where the motor mounts are
I had built a box around the side of the frame to slid forward or back put some tabs on that with swinging arms to go in or out. It worked out real nice my buddy sure likes it.
I'll have to go get a photo of it.
23'T Pail; Where did that come from??? I'm not saying your not right, I was just wondering what brought that up on this thread??? I don't know anything about this person or his site's.Seem's to me if he is posting photo's of people on other sites with out thier permission that he could be sued, Right.

Originally Posted by shine

i have an old camaro clip.

Thanks for the tip shine, I have a 305 out of a 76 Nova on the garage floor, and I still have the front clip. I have some big casters that I could put on the rear frame rails to move it around. Thanks for the idea, that's better then building one; I never would have thought of using it to sit the engine in to try to start it. It would be a good way to paint it also. I know the engine ran when I took it out years ago, and I want to put it in a 50 Ford just to have an engine in the car to get a few more dollars when I try to sell it.

Richard

I like to have a lot of wires on my test stands. wires make any engine go faster. wires look cool. wires have sex apeal. ya.. give me lots of wires.

Lot

Richard, you will still need a tail wheel of some kind ,if you have no trans. Or some other way to hold up the back of the engine.Show pictures if you can. I need ideas.
matt aka -stinky-

Originally Posted by vara4

23'T Pail; Where did that come from??? I'm not saying your not right, I was just wondering what brought that up on this thread??? I don't know anything about this person or his site's.Seem's to me if he is posting photo's of people on other sites with out thier permission that he could be sued, Right.

It was the advertising right above where I was going to reply to the post, Kurt, and I was wondering why Brent would stoop so low as to accept advertising from that Jerk Markus that runs it!!

I have an Aluminum Plate that Bolts to the back of my Test stand with Gauges and a ignition Switch . I have even seen Test Stand constructed out of Wood . Most Engines will need a Bellhousing to hook up a starter .

Originally Posted by '23T-Pail

MY run in stand is mobil, has 4 caster wheels on it, a battery box, radiator, and a tranny, along with headers and long rubber tubes to direct the smoke and noise outside.. cost about 10 bux to build..

Sent you a PM and I've removed the far off topic part of this post. Let's try to keep this thread on topic. If you have any other issues, start a new thread in the lounge.


Bill S.

I work in the engineering dept at a near by hospital and have access to discarded item quite often. I made my stand from a supply cart base. It has brakes and a lock steering function. I don't have the radiator frame completed yet. I do crank the engine over till oil pressure is up to keep it lubed. I put the headers on upside down as an easy way to move it around. I don't think I would run it with them up although it would be a fun way to wake the neighbors.

I realize this is a commercial test stand, but an enterprising rodder could probably use some of the features on it in the design of his own.

http://www.mightymount.com/

This is a Camaro clip pretty much the same as the Nova. Anyway just to give you an idea, my trans is still mounted to the engine, and I have the cross member also. It would be nice to have casters on the rear with the wheels up front to move it around. (I copied the image from a Hot Rod article.)

Camaro -clip.jpg



Richard