Does anyone have a pair of the 303-536 engine lifting brackets they'd be willing to loan or sell? Can't seem to find them for sale at what would appear any reasonable price.

Presumably this could be home made by anyone with some steel sheet and the appropriate dimensions... I don't have the equipment to cut steel.

That said... wondering whether people just made do with a generic threaded eyelet instead? Any reason not to go that route?

 

Used chain to front eyelets and for back wrapped a really high strength cargo/tie down strap around exhaust manifolds. The back of the manifold curves down so easy to wrap with no fear of slipping out.

 

Thanks pcolapacker,

Is it OK to lift by the exhaust manifold? Strong enough? Not done this before and don't want to mess any seals up.

By the way, my dad had a 1968 Cutlass when we lived in NY around 40 years ago - awesome car!

 

Lots of people do it on many cars. Not very scientific answer and others are asked to chime in. I’ve done it on my XJ8 and XJR. Engine is around 400 lbs so that is 100 lbs a corner. I think manifold’s six or eight bolts are plenty.

Cutlass was fun. 330 V8 was a little tired. Was thinking of engine swap for more horsepower but ended up selling to fund my Cobra build.

 

I used an engine support from Harbor Freight and wrapped the chains around the exhaust manifolds. Worked like a charm

 

Jeremy not sure this will help you but the Foundations tool loan sends these out frequently. You are a bit far away to make a loan reasonable. If you are searching for the tool you might consider using the legacy number for the tool-----JD222. You are using the global number (read Ford). These are very heavy duty lifts. Perhaps these pics will help.

 

I did this as well when pulling engine/trans as one unit from my 2000 XJR. In fact, to get the angle i needed to lift it out, I used the typical Harbor Freight style adjustable, block, with longer chains on the back by the manifolds to help tilt it. Plenty strong and zero issues. Used same approach putting LS3/6L80E in as one unit too.