bcgardner wrote:

I'm a bit perplexed by the discussion on making the Harbor Freight engine
stand fit. I bought one and it worked. I had to buy extra long metric bolts
at the hardware store and used washers and short pieces of pipe to shim the
engine out from those adjustable arms on the stand. I bolted it in to the
rear of the engine and used the shims to hold it out, so the flywheel/flex
plate had clearance from the stand. With my washers and small chunks of
pipe, it's cantilevered out about two inches from the adjustable arms on the
stand. Cantilevering is not my favorite trick, as it reduces the weight
capacity of the stand, but it's only two inches and it's a light engine,
well under the stand's capacity. It seems stable to me.

I got the model that has the I-shaped base, with four castors, not the
three-castor T-style.

I wish I had a digital camera to send a picture, but that's on my Christmas
list now.

Barry Gardner
Wheaton, IL

Scanners and Kodak cardboard cameras are cheap Barry :-)

Paul Lamar


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