Engine Transportation

[Anonymous]

I have found that the best way to transport an engine is to get a pallet made up for it, and then strap the engine into it somehow.

I can get a pallet made by a company in Slough. ?12.
I will have to have no top on the pallet and one of the sides missing too.

A 1.6 GTE engine measured up for a pallet is 2.5ft in Height (27 inches)
3ft in Length (35 inches)
2.5ft in Width (25 inches)

Are these sizes gonna be ok for a pallet for the 2 litre 16v??

ANY IDEAS?

[Anonymous]

?12?!?! i'll sell u one for ?10! lol ?10 clear profit!

look around local industrial estates etc, there's millions about for ???FREE

Ged@RoyBacer.co.uk

Red mk2 on white GSi 15s

[Anonymous]

sid do what ged says. go and nick a pallet and go to any motorist shop and get 2 ratchet straps (m/cycle straps) strap it to the pallet, it wont move

If it isn't kev it isn't worth it !!!

[Anonymous]

lol a pallet is flat it sounds like you are talking about a shipping box!!! below is a pic of my engine as it arrived with just the two rope straps taken off it

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/dedcbd7d/bc/My+cars/16v+conversion/__hr_Engine.JPG?bcL_Lc8Asi30mVsZ



16v Nova - Toolkit, Trouble, Points and great expence all come as standard :)

2.0 16v back soon :D

[Anonymous]

Yeah I was thinking of a sorta box thing ..help me for storage too until my car gets back... I got that idea from John Avison, as he nicked a pallet from work and built a frame around it to house the engine.

I'll investigate about the pallet from the big stores as well though.

[Anonymous]

get a pallet from an industrial estate etc and strap it to the pallet nice and firmly, u could use rope or motor cycle straps (these straps are the same sort of thing they put through your front wheels when you are on the back of a tow truck to stop your car rolling off the back)

then lob it in the back of a car/van with the seats down.

Ged@RoyBacer.co.uk

Red mk2 on white GSi 15s

[Anonymous]

ged, have you actually ever tried shifting a 2.0 16v engine? they weigh an absolute ton!!! when I picked mine up from down south, I put it in the back of my dads transit, but it wasn't easy to do, cos we had to lift it into the back. I wouldn't fancy trying to lift a pallet and engine into the back of a car, it would be an arse of a job!!!

2.0 16v on it's way soon!!! (again!!!!) :)

[Anonymous]

lol i used a forklift to move mine round (p.s. u need a licence to drive one :p)

16v Nova - Toolkit, Trouble, Points and great expence all come as standard :)

2.0 16v back soon :D

[Anonymous]

Lol!
"they weigh an absolute ton!!!"
Hmm could this be a major disadvantage of a 2.0l or are all 2.0l drivers just too puny to lift a lil'ol valver engine? :p

[Anonymous]

it's all the bits attached to it that add the weigh gearbox, injection system etc etc 2 peeps can easily carry a block, head, gearbox combo

16v Nova - Toolkit, Trouble, Points and great expence all come as standard :)

2.0 16v back soon :D

[Anonymous]

that is true, when I got my engine, it still had the gearbox and injection system attached and it was well awkward to move!!!

2.0 16v on it's way soon!!! (again!!!!) :)

[Anonymous]

when i said 'lob it in the back' it was a bit of an understatement :p

but as ste says, i've lifted a 2.0 8v before with a mate and it wasn't impossible

Ged@RoyBacer.co.uk

Red mk2 on white GSi 15s

[Anonymous]

I'm gonna go to Slough B&Q to see if any pallets are lying around there... if not I am stuck, cos gotta go on weekend!

[Anonymous]

Well the pallet wont add much weight to it... i have to deal with weights of pallets alot in my job... and on average they weight about 26kg, depending how wet/dry they are it can go up as far as 38kg or even down to 15kg... just depends on how much moisture they have in them.



The name is misleading - I am not wise, or wooden.

[Anonymous]

They had nothing outside! Anybody round here get hold of a pallet for me!?