newworld

87s4. i am looking for my eyelets for the engine hoist, and it seems that i have an eyelet near right front but nothing on rear back left.....i post a pic to see if i am missing something. it woud be great if someone could post pics of their eyelets so i know where they are and how that attach....

Rob Edwards

Here's a shot of the lift bracket on the 5-8 side:

PHIL928

there should be one on the drivers side of the engine, near the back.

newworld

87s4. that pic helps alot. it is on the side rear left, i dont have anything there.

on the passenger side, front, i see an eyelet, has some other thing connected to it, it is on front right side...

Rob Edwards

The passenger side hoist bracket is more complex, it lies in between the head and the Hall sensor cable bracket, and has a captive nut for the front-of-engine wiring harness. The hall sensor wiring is routed incorrectly in the pictures I show below, there's a good discussion of how things are supposed to go in the linked thread below.


https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...g-routing.html


FWIW, both hoist brackets are held on by a single M8 x 20 bolt.

Tom in Austin

newworld, I took off my 5-8 side lift bracket a while back, PM me if you'd like to borrow it ...

PHIL928

HOW IS IT SO SHINY!!! I can only aspire.

newworld

looking at the eyelets and that single bolt......can it support the engine? seems counterintuitive.....but i guess it works.

the reason i would want to stick by factory eyelets, is i saw an engine for sale where parts of the block were cracked, it looked to me that either a chain during a hoist cracked something and was wrapped around the block, or the engine was dropped.....

either way the eyelets are there for a reason, i assume supporting with tiestraps cant hurt as well around the bottom, but in addition to factory eyelets.

i will take you up on the loan offer, to minimize time of borrowing i will get to disconnecting everything first. thanks again for the loan offer much appreciated.

newworld

and yes, those pics rob are museum quality pics of the engine. spotless.

17prospective buyer

Lol speaking of the engine pics... anyone in Ontario Canada do cadmium plating? Have the health nannies outlawed cadmium?

Leon Speed

Are you taking the engine out or are you lifting it to replace the motor mounts? For the latter use the bracket on the front of the engine, the one bolted to the water pump.

fraggle

I pulled my motor from my 87 with the stock eyelets. Used the big S-Hooks from a set of tie downs and an leveler on my hoist and it went fine.

When I did my motor mounts I just supported the block from the bottom with a wood structure made from 4x4's.

newworld

Just to summarize....the eyelets on front passenger side and rear drivers side are not interchangeable?

It is hard to see from pics.... But I assume the shape of the eyelets are different....is that correct?

newworld

Slight correction....eyelets look the same but the bracket might be different and therefore not interchangeable?

Rob Edwards

The holes in the bracket are identically spaced (since the cylinder head castings are totally symmetrical and can be built up to be used on either side) but the the brackets themselves are mirror images of each other. Plus the additional U-shaped channel on the 1-4 side bracket for routing the FOE harness.