Today was the day I re-leveled my frame and got ready to hang the engine sorta where it’s going to live. I spent about 2 hours lifting and wedging and finally got it so it was level on both frame rails and across the ends. Whoohoo, I’m making progress now! I received my motor mounts from 12BoltTom, got them bolted to my block and got my engine hung from my engine crane. Then I started maneuvering that whole lash up so the block was over the frame opening. This is when I reached the first hurdle, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. The darn engine crane won’t let me position the engine even close to centerline. I needed to pick up the engine with my chainfall, but that meant moving my frame over about a foot so it’s under the centerline of my chainfall. This is when I reached the second hurtle. When I lifted the front of the frame on my floor jack, it fell off the jack stands aft. And this is when I knew my day was over. I have the engine hanging inside the frame, but I now need to re-level it and make sure it’s still square. I made punch marks on the top outside radius of my rails, directly over the axle centerlines. Pulling diagonals between those punch marks will let me know pretty fast if I’m good to go.
