Hy,

I'm planning to fab an engine reair stand somewhat like the one in the pic below. Any tips, plans for me?? Everybody keeps telling me to just buy one.

I wanna build this to exercise my welding skils.

 

nice, i need to build a couple of these myself.

 

wont it cost more to build one then to just buy one? I think i saw one least week for like $50

 

they sell for like $40-50. you'll have about that much in materials when youre done

theyre very easy to build. just look at it and build it

 

Yeah with the high price of steel now, not forgetting you have to buy casters too, it'll cost more unless you can find it all surplus.

 

Just buy the dang thing.

$40 from harbor freight.

http://www.harborfreight.com/c...32915

 

Got mine for 50$ from Napa.

 

The real questions are: Do you want to build a stand or work on the engine? When do you want the engine done?

 

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That answers your question

 

One nice thing about building the stand yourself is you can either make it height adjustable (which is what I would do if I was gonna take the time to make the stand), or you could atleast make it so it's tall enough for you. All the engine stands forsale are kinda short for me, and I always have to lean over and it ends up hurting my back. If you made it height adjustable, you could make it so you can raise it up to stand, or lower it to sit

 

dude buy the harbor frieght model then chuck the mount. Now make your own mount so you can hang the engine from the side instead of the back it makes working on the engine almost a pleasure.

 

I'd say do it but definately make it height adjustable like ferio said, because those things sit way to damn low, when it comes time for mine, I too will be making my own, but I will alse make some sort of device to keep the motor steady so i can install the clutch and tranny... without doing it on the ground or a bench, where it can fall.

 

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yea you do, thanks to me

 

I made mine 2 months ago:



Evertything costed me about $65. Well, new one here (Europe) costs $230

 

Hi...

I've got one at the beginnig off the year: Very good deal



If it would help you: I've made a litle plan to re-build it... I think it could help

<U>How To</U> : http://ed3ler.honda-tech.de/motorstaender/

Florian

 

Nice pics, helps a lot Makes me want to do it.. and I don't even have an engine to put on it.

 

Thanks guys... Gonna built it now for shure.! I'll take pics while I'm at it.

 

i got mines for 30 bucks at autozone..

 

So you want to practice your welding skills, and waste about $80 to do it? Why?

I'd suggest buying the stand and then looking into making a metal fab table or something else to work on your welding skills. In other words, if you make a table it will be cheaper than buying one. If you make a stand, you will pay more than to just buy it.

Or make a cart for your welding machine or something.

 

prob cost you more like people have said and would you trust your welds to hold your engine?!

i'd personally buy a half-decent one and practice making up something else, maybe a stand for a halogen light, a car-creeper?, anything really

 

Idk if i'd wanna be practicing welding skills on something thats needs to support a few hundred pounds.

 

i got mine from Advance Autoparts for $30 so its cheaper to buy one

 

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exactly. . .I can find them brand new all day long for $30 in NJ.

The height adjustment thing sounds cool. Maybe you could buy one for cheap and modify it so it is perfect for you. . .

 

I bought one for $40 at harbor freight a few years back.

Yager-

 

i got one for 19bucks ..
as some huge arena liquidation thing .. pritty good to .. been holding my engine for a while now