Lifting engine in place with carb studs?

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Sounds fishy I know. Getting ready to drop my newly rebuild 350 into my truck, want to put the intake on before hand. Old man says “take a plate of steel and weld a couple hooks to it, bolt it where your carb goes and use the hoist to attach there!” He claims this will also keep stuff out of the intake so killing time birds at once I suppose. Easy enough, we work in a shop with access to all the tools to make it happen, just curious if that’s been done and if I can trust those carb mounting bolts to essentially hold the weight of the motor?
 

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Alright good to know! Thanks guys, my coworker got this made in a couple minutes. Thank you!

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Mine is going FI and wont have an intake on it....wondering how or what I'm going to use to get mine in.....possibly with a trans hanging on it too.

One great thing is it will be on an open and lowered frame, so nothing in the way of a potential catastrophic event. lol
 

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I have seen this question come up frequently. Assuming the threads are good, and the bolt threads in far enough, the tensile strength of one grade 8 5/16 bolt is more than enough to lift an engine. Considering your using 4, you could probably lift the truck.
 
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Mine is going FI and wont have an intake on it....wondering how or what I'm going to use to get mine in.....possibly with a trans hanging on it too.

One great thing is it will be on an open and lowered frame, so nothing in the way of a potential catastrophic event. lol


3/8s bolts... or are they 7?16s.. intake manifold bolts! One on each side of the head where the intake bolts go. One at the back, one at the front.
 

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3/8s bolts... or are they 7?16s.. intake manifold bolts! One on each side of the head where the intake bolts go. One at the back, one at the front.

Or using the accessory holes on the heads. They are always my go-to.
 

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Hoping my heads have these holes (for the accessories as well). They're Edelbrock E-Tecs.
 

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I just tonight lifted a complete 454 with pulleys and a th400 bolted to it. With a good quality lift plate.

It was an old torquer 2 aluminum intake.

I have done this many many times never any issues at all.

That being said only do what your comfortable with.

Anytime you lift something that heavy no matter the devise, in my opinion it’s always dangerous.

I treat every engine I lift as if it could fall and make sure myself fingers hands and legs as well as anyone else’s around stay out of the way.

I have broken chains never an issue with lift plates. I’ve even had a cherry picker collapse with a 350 on it.

Accidents happen use what you feel confident with and of course be careful.
 

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Hoping my heads have these holes (for the accessories as well). They're Edelbrock E-Tecs.
Yeah Bucket is right unless there aren't any holes then I get the prize.
 

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