hey its been a while since i have asked all of you wise and knowledgable diesel dudes and i have yet another question. i need to buy some type of engine hoist, a-frame hoist is out of the question, due to not haveing the room. i was wondering if a 250 dollar kragen special ( rated at 2 tons of lifting compacity, with an 8 ton ram) would be okay to pull my engine and tranny, the front end of my truck has been removed for easier R/R, anyone thats has done this please chime in thankyou in advance.

 

One of those cherry pickers work fine. You just need someone there to help guide the thing around. I just use a chain fall, hang it from the rafters of the barn. That works good too.

 

For a Cummins, how about a backhoe bucket!

 

If your using a boom lift dont make the mistake I made once, I did it inside my garage and needed an extra 4 inches in height. It was a pain in the *** to drop the car down when everything was happening at once

 

hey thanks for the replys, all the work will be done outside unfortunatley so hieght won't be an issue.

 

I 'spec there's some fine print to the capacity quotes.

The two ton rating is most likely with connecting the lifting chain to the hook/hole closest to the ram. The lifting capacity drops as you move further away from the ram.
Check your measurements and see where your central lifting point is over the engine (assuming it's all being lifted ultimately by a single line/chain).
Measure how far the lift is gonna have to reach over the front of the truck to get to that point. [From the ram to where your chain's gonna connect to the lift boom (read the instructions)].

There should be some kind of a chart for the lift that indicates what it's lifting capacity is at that setting/distance.

Seems I recall the Dry Weight of the bare long-block is in the neighborhood of 900lbs.

On that note, be sure to measure how much lift the boom will be able to provide at the chains connection point (as it would be sitting over the installed engine). I guess that needed would be the height of the engine, plus whatever space between the engine and the boom, plus a little for the "Uh-Oh!! Factor".

Be careful.