$825.00 engine stand?

[hwoods]

anyone buying $825.00 engine stands?


http://www.axeequipment.com/engine-stands.html


saw it mentioned on Powernation you tube video and inquired on cost.  Kind of pricey I think?

[cleandan]

Are you really asking if anyone is using one of these stands, or are you making a comment about the price of the stands in a round about manner?

[hwoods]

I think it is too expensive, but it is expensive to have one drop your engine too.   anyone use these stands?

[cjshaker]

Of course they show a Harbor Freight (alias for Pier 1 Imports...lol) stand that failed. I hate Harbor Freight. You might as well throw your money in a burn pile.

The Mac heavy duty gear driven engine stand I bought a couple of years ago was something like $350. I could easily put a drip tray underneath it. So yeah, that thing is way overpriced, in my opinion.

[FrozenMerc]

If they are in business and selling them for a profit, good for them.  The last three engines I have played with are a 430 MEL (the lightest of the bunch at 850 lbs.), 327 Packard Straight 8 (about 950 lbs), and a 6.9 IDI (about 1100 lbs).  No one in their right mind would put any of those engines on a $50 Harbor Fright Chinesium special. 

[Drew Pojedinec]

Up until 2017 I never actually owned an engine that was worth $825....

[My427stang]

I am not completely ready for an 825.00 one, but I am likely going to buy one or two better ones.  One benefit of a bigger and stronger head is to allow putting a flywheel on it.  Handy for complete engines, handy for turning an engine over, handy for mockup, etc.  Certainly not required, but I am getting sick of my 3 oldies.

[HarleyJack17]

Ross nailed it. Sorry but I had my pricey 445 FE on a HFreight stand...insert cringe...the "higher capacity" stand. But just last week had to pull it off to put the flexplate on. Made for some fun torqueing down the bolts while keeping the motor from turning over and balanced. I don't move like that very well anymore. Typical after work, rush fashion, did all the above and forgot to put the block plate on. Two times for memory right.
The HF worked but definitely worried me as I have seen a wheel crack on another one and down went the motor....worried me every time I moved it. New USA wheels may be in it's future...I don't use a stand enough to justify the added expense but boy would a crank over style stand be icing on the cake. These motors are a bit tough to rotate alone once they are close to done.

[hwoods]

mine is on a stand I bought probably  (oh crap) 45 years ago. 

[RustyCrankshaft]

That stand is less than the 2 OTC Revolver's I have. I did get them second hand which helped the price quite a bit, they are pretty nice tho. Well worth the money I paid for them slightly used.

[machoneman]

I have a real Lakewood stand I bought, yikes, in about 1971-72. Really heavy duty.

[Thumperbird]

HF is fine for some stuff, their quality is way up over 5 or 10 years ago.
I've got electric grinders and pneumaatic items that work just great for 1/4 the cost of others.
I've used their engine stand and hoist, worked just fine, would not buy if I used them every day though I suppose.
Snap on, Matco and the like are dinosours now, way too overpriced for what you get.

Lots of value in some of the new lines out there.  They're tools to be used and abused not ornaments.

[machoneman]

Bob Glidden never used an engine stand! Cheap bastard.......

[shady]

Yep, set the engine on 2 tires, need to work on the bottom end, roll it over on two more tires.

[machoneman]

Funny, but when I saw the $825 price and before clicking on, I did think about why Glidden did what he did.

He claimed (and I'm sure he was right) that hanging all that heavy iron off one end did distort the bores enough to make plopping the blocks onto a flat plate a better idea. He's been depicted (along with wife Etta) crouching down to a floor level block more than a few times. A journalist or two in the era did look around his Indiana shop for a tradtional engine stand but found none. I do wonder if the Pro Stock folks then and now emulated his rolling cart-like device to eliminate any unwanted block stress.

Btw, it looked like a large and heavy-duty creeper (but with a thick flat steel center) that we've all seen or used. Still, it had to be a back-breaker. Today, one could rig-up a 2nd rotating engine stand at the front to hold a block at both ends. Always wanted to test his theory by measuring a block but haven't a fine enough measuring device to do so.