Use a big V belt (like one for a garden tractor belly mower blade drive) looped through the gap in the block and tied into a choker as a lifting device that won't scar up the paint. That's how we handled Cummins crankshafts with a forklift, putting them between centers on the crankshaft grinder. They weigh 700 lbs. or more.

If that "parts" engine can find its way to Tennessee, I know a crochety old curmudgeon who can build it up into a spare short block.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!