Transporting an engine
 

Is it safe enough to transport an engine sitting on the oil pan and strapped to a skid? Total travel time would be about an hour.

Yes.

hmm...

I was wondering...is there a "wrong" way to transport an engine? Ive never done it...so Im just wonderin.

Thanks.

I transported a 13BREW from southern Virginia to Birmignham Alabama just strapped to a pallet. It was not completely sitting on the oil pan. Sort of on the oil pan leaning to the exhaust side of the motor. It made it ok without any damage to the oil pan.

Will the shaking/bouncing of a trailer be bad for an engine?

What's the safest way to do it?

When I moved my engine it was on my 18' car hauler. You don't want it flopping around and the possibility of it falling off. Just strap the engine down to something that makes it easier to move around (pallet or a skid). Then strap the pallet down to your trailer. The bouncing of the trailer will not damage anything as long as the engine itself is not bouncing around on the trailer.

I had no problem at all getting my "new" engine home today. Just strapped it to a pallet and had it sit in the back of a van. It didn't move a millimeter.

Thanks for the help!

lol i would have put it in the seat belt up front with me that way its padded

I've always seen people put a tire under the engien so that it has kinda like a shock absorber or distributes the weight to the rim of the pan where it bolts to the engine...

I recently mobed a 13B in my truck with no oil pan and I bent the dip stick tip when I sat it in the bed. :mad: It wont come out unless I chop it off or unbend it.

I've transported a shortblock in the trunk of my BMW 325e. :D And an Evo engine as well.

I put my 13B in the Back of my Golf. It got better treatment then my friends usually do. I buckled it up and had it sitting on the leather seats. Hell I even took it out to Wendy's!

Wendy's ? I bet the engine was way impressed.

You'd be surprised what a Frosty can do ;)

If you're worried, throw a tire under it (as mentioned above).

I've hauled rotary engines around in the back of my Subaru without problems. Personally, I usually just put them on their side. There's not enough oil in them to cause any trouble, though you want to make sure the dipstick side is *up*, or it can leak.

-=Russ=-

After bugging my neighbor for a couple of days, I convinced him to let me unbolt his passenger seat so we could get the flywheel bolt off at a shop... :-D . Now thats the way to do it.