Plans for cradle to hold straight 8?

Hemi's power plants are not as heavy as the flat head eights I bet. Seems that at least after R&Ring many of each engine over the years.

Many years ago I bought a 472 cid crate Hemi (a real POS I am afraid) and if I remember correctly it shipped at 690#. I think I can check that tomorrow, Shouldn't be to far off from the 392.

My early Hemi manual says that a 392 weighs 767 pounds dry, so add fluids, starter etc. Scattershield is WAY heavier than an aluminum bellhousing. Plus a steel flywheel and a clutch assy. Then the tranny. I can see this thing easily weighing over a thousand lbs.

I can still roll it easily over my smooth shop floor as well as off and onto my cardboard paint booth.

Thats alot of groceries.

The 1951-53 331 hemi (extended bell housing) engine dry weight is 710LBS and the complete powerplant assembly...FD/bell Housing and M6 trans is 960 lbs dry.

This out of the 1951-2 Chrysler shop manual.

This thread is getting heavy.

A-833 4 speed from a 1968 B body

No wonder I have to get help when I need to stuff one of those.,

I remember when we were in our teens that we manhandled these to change the clutch. We didn't have trans jacks or a hoist back then

Many years ago I bought a 472 cid crate Hemi (a real POS I am afraid) and if I remember correctly it shipped at 690#. I think I can check that tomorrow, Shouldn't be to far off from the 392.

With that size of the oil cooler lines, they are as big as 18 wheelers oil cooler!!!

Wonder what this would weigh? 1939 Dodge Diesel.

I think I'm going to need a bigger scale!!

The dodge diesel should be close to any gas 281-413 six- about 1150lbs for the powerplant.

Holy Crap Dave, forget the scale, You are going to have to do a lot of beefing on the 34 chassis. Do you think that A-833 will hold up?

You think?

I finally finished my carts and now have the engines loaded. I had to shim the back of one because of the enormous bellhousing. I used 3 inch channel for the rails and 2 inch channel for the crosspieces. The spacing is 9 1/4 inches. I would increase it an eighth or a quarter if I did it again because it's a pretty tight squeeze. I went with 3 inch wheels to make it easier to roll, but the wheels rub against the pan when turned inwards. So it would be better to use 4 inch rails or maybe go with smaller wheels. I originally had brakes on all the wheels but took the brakes off the rear wheels for that same reason.

Now that looks like a professional built engine cradle/dolly!

Excellent job!

I don't know about that, but thanks! My neighbor welded one, and I did the second. It's the first time I've used an arc welder. Thank you for posting all the pics in this thread so I could make these.

They look good to me. Not as big and bulky as a shopping cart.

They look good to me. Not as big and bulky as a shopping cart.

Jack

Mine was free-plus me being a old man-I don't have to bend over to pull or push-HAHA

I needed to make roomso I put one on top of the other. The higher stand I made for assembling the engine without having to bend over. Sometimes I think I should have collected Crosleys or Metropolitans.

Jay

I like the Spitfire grill.

I like the look of this setup, while it may be a bit overkill, it does not seem to hard to achieve for the piece of mind. I will likely be working on my CD8 engine for a few months, so rather be safe than sorry. thanks for suggesting this old thread. Gunsmoke