Thread: HELP I need some dimensions

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I'm building a engine stand for a friend he is getting a 427 ford engine and wants a stand for it. What I need is a drawing of the engine with dimensions . The stand will be abot 2'x4' with 4 casters for rolling around the engine will have a C6? trans attached. I need to know where to put the pads that the motor mounts would bolt to if in a car and maybe the distance between the motor mounts and the trans mount lrength ad the differance in height.

I wish I had a picture of the one I built for a buddy that has his own machine shop.
I built a L shaped frame with caster wheels on it.
In the back of the L shape I had a bar {2 X 4} that would slide up and down to adjust for differant engine blocks with differant holes drilled in it.
On the bottom sides of the frame I had arms that could slide forward and backwards.
The arms them selves had a bolts near the bottom and top of the arm to pivet to be adjusted for differant engines and with being able to slide back and forth they could easly adjust to fit any engine not just one motor.
26 inches on the inside of the frame 30 inches to the out side using 2X4 boxed tubing. This is side to side.
Front to rear is 40 inches on the inside and 44 inches on the out side also using 2 X 4 box tubing.
This seems a little long but will give you room for your pully's.
Bring the back up about 36 inches to give you room for big blocks or tall blocks plus it gives you some place to push the thing around by and makes it nice for control with out having to be bent over to move it around.
Kurt

what he is wanting is somthing to set the assembly on to roll it around out of the way like the one I made some 20 yr ago for chevy mtrs

Gottcha; I missed the part about the trany attached sorry.
If you built one before why do you need the dimensions
can't you use the dimensions from the one you allready built?
That looks good for that type set up.
I don't have any chevy stuff to measure the length of the trany and engine bolted together to give you a good measurment.
Kurt

yea the one in the picture is for chevy. I went to the bone yard and after a while I got what I needed. Project complete. The centers on Chevy are Different than Ford..Thanks for the help