acy76
SILVER Star
Posting in case others don’t feel like screwing around and buying unnecessary $5 bolts. And so I can find this again once I forget.
Mounting a 2F to the HF stand requires:
- HF Pittsburgh heavy duty “1/2 ton” stand, the version with four wheels.
- 4x M12x80mm, 1.75 pitch (coarse) flange bolts, grade 10.9 (Ace Hardware has always been my go-to for local metric hardware, great selection)
- 24x 7/16” flat washers
Install stand plate “finger” bolts (the bolts that fasten the mount plate parts together) so the heads face the engine block.
Space the mounting bolts away from the block with six washers per so the stand plate and hardware clears the main cap and crank.
I install the plate separately while the engine is on the crane and then slide the stand into the tube before lowering the entire works to the floor. Makes it easier to fine-tune the plate and fingers.
This orientation gets the engine pretty close to vertical. I could have messed with it more but it was 100 degrees in that garage. I just tried to get the plate top edge parallel to the block/head mating surface.
Hope this helps someone (or future me).
Mounting a 2F to the HF stand requires:
- HF Pittsburgh heavy duty “1/2 ton” stand, the version with four wheels.
- 4x M12x80mm, 1.75 pitch (coarse) flange bolts, grade 10.9 (Ace Hardware has always been my go-to for local metric hardware, great selection)
- 24x 7/16” flat washers
Install stand plate “finger” bolts (the bolts that fasten the mount plate parts together) so the heads face the engine block.
Space the mounting bolts away from the block with six washers per so the stand plate and hardware clears the main cap and crank.
I install the plate separately while the engine is on the crane and then slide the stand into the tube before lowering the entire works to the floor. Makes it easier to fine-tune the plate and fingers.
This orientation gets the engine pretty close to vertical. I could have messed with it more but it was 100 degrees in that garage. I just tried to get the plate top edge parallel to the block/head mating surface.
Hope this helps someone (or future me).
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