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Lifting Bar
The Lister Type engines are top heavy, people who are new to these engines often learn this by tipping them over, and breaking off the intake pipe or breaking off a high pressure fuel line. Few of us have a fork lift. I've unloaded these engines using every method you might think of short of using dynamite. I have built ramps, and used pipe rollers and lowered crated engines down the ramp with a line that can be slackened as required. Many of us have a lifting ring in the shop overhead, others make up three poles to form a tripod over the truck bed or trailer. use either a come along or better yet a chain fall to pick up the engine. If you have a saws all, cut the top of the crate off, remove two head bolts, and add 3/4-10 thread hardware store 'connectors', and the lifting bar and attach with short 3/4-10 common hardware store bolts.. If you are unfamiliar with connectors, they are simply a nut that's about four or five times as tall as a stock nut, "very common item", this allows easy attachment of the lifting bar as the studs are too short to take both the bar and the stock head bolt. Although this item looks simple, we're already on version #4, one of the more important items on this version is the super heavy bar stock, the milled holes at each end, (they are elongated), the higher quality U bolt, the width of the U bolt. Since I think this is a good item to have in your tool kit, the price is $25, plus $5 shipping. A great piece to have in your tool kit. I will always add this item to any order for not added shipping if I can get it in the box. All the best, George
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