boman993

Fellow RLers! Long shot, but does anybody have an engine crane / hoist / cherry-picker I can borrow tomorrow (Sunday Sept 8) for 4 hours or so?! I was going to borrow a friends, but that fell through last minute, and I really need to lift my new toy off a rented pickup truck!

Let me know!!

DarrenD

Hey Boman, I have one you can use. You'll have to pick it up in Brampton, but you're welcome to it.

Darren

boman993

AMAZING! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

ArniO

Ahhh, Jakob. What are you doing? Hope everything's okay with the 993!

Arn

boman993

Yeah everything is cool Arni! I bought a scissor/mid-rise lift yesterday!

Imo000

Lifting that off with an engine hoist should be interesting

boman993

Ha! Can't wait! Not sure of any other option? We're taking the swing arms off to save a bit of weight. It's about 750-800lbs complete. PO left 4K lb wire rope/ties to attach the crane hook onto so it should be fine.

Livio928

I guess too late and too far. I have an engine hoist and it can be hooked up to a compressor so that you can lift it faster and easier or you can use the old fashion crank/lever.

I a in Hamilton though so I would have imagined a bit too far for you.

BTW, what lift/hoist did you get. I have a MaxJax and it is great.

Mark Lue

Which scissor / mid rise lift did you get?

boman993

Thanks so much guys!! I already borrowed the crane from Darren! Turns out it's the same one I used in 2001 when I was swapping an Acura motor into my Honda CRX..haha (Good ol' RedPepperRacing days!)

Lift is off the truck. It was fun/sketchy for sure! But with some smart pivoting and a few guys we were able to get it off no problem. What I've been wrestling with for the last 2 hours is turning the darn thing around in my single garage! FML...

Livio928 and Mark; I got a gently used Atlas Pro 6MR! I'm pumped! My house is the family winter tire/summer tire swap "shop" so this should move things along quicker every October and April..haha...oh yeah, and I can have some proper fun tinkering with the 911!

aviography

Hmmm, I seem to remember RedPepperRacing for some reason, did you go to the PITL auto-X events?

As for the tire changing, you can justify all you want with that rationale, but I still think you just wanted a new toy/tool.

DarrenD

We were regulars at PITL events for years, winning the odd championship along the way. Good memory!

It's how I first met Jakob. First Honda's, now Porsche's. Gotta love it.

Glad it all worked out Boman.

boman993

It's a small world we live in. I fell off my chair when I bumped into Darren and his brother Andy at a PCA social last summer!! We were all 1st generation, tortion-bar'd Honda CRX-heads 13 years ago!

aviography

Oh I remember the torsion bar rear suspension! I had the 84' CRX for 6 .5 years, California emission CVCC carb/head no less.

The rubber donut inside the torsion tube gave away so there is clunking sound, American Honda had a TSB for it, but Canadian Honda refused to recognize it, so I bought a new torsion bar and installed it myself, a couple of years later I was talking to a Honda Canada guy and happened to mention this, he asked if I still had the invoice for the bar, I did, so he said to send it in and Honda Canada will reimburse me for the part cost, not the labor since I did the work myself.

boman993

Nice, they were great little cars. You're thinking Panhard bar, the torsion bars were in the front. Rear suspension was a solid beam axle with a panhard bar/rod.