Engine weight

[Wangler]

Could someone please tell me the approximate weight of a dry 1.3 engine without carbs, starter motor and alternator?

Basically I might have to get one out of the back of my SUV. Easy to put in with a forklift by the garage, but no forklift at home and engine crane won’t have sufficient clearance. Might have to manhandle if possible with 2 people or get it palletised.

[lancianut666]

Heavy? In an Appia owners book I think it states the weight of the engine possibly the Fulvia is the same? Wrap it in an old double quilt and 2 or 3 people will be able to haul it out.
Clarkey

[lancialulu]

100kg. I cannot lift one…

[Wangler]

Thanks, 100kg is probably ok for 2 strong blokes perhaps using a quilt/blanket as lancianut has suggested. Maybe I’ll put down a plastic sheet to help it to be slid out a little. Fortunately there’s no lip on the back of the loading area.

[chriswgawne]

I quite often seem to transport engines and I always ensure they are sitting on a reasonably solid piece of plywood ( and tied down of course) to avoid damage to the floor covering of our vehicle. To unload, I usually use a couple of planks of wood to manhandle engines out of the back of our vehicles if there isn't room to use my crane. The engines can safely be 'walked' down the plank by one person, preferably  with a 2nd person ( Jacky) in attendance  to ensure the wooden bits are in the correct position. Just ensure the angle isn't too steep.
So no actual lifting involved and if the carrying vehicle has a large step at the rear, the wood on which the engine has been sitting  can usually be manoeuvred to get the engine over the step and onto the wooden ramp.
Chris  

[chriswgawne]

Going slightly 'off-piste', a Gawne family joke has always been that pieces of wood used in the garage for things like moving engines etc around have traditionally been called ' DULLAGE'.
As in, ' Its time to get the dullage Dad'.  Is this a proper word?
Chris

[lancianut666]

Hi all
100kg sounds about right the Appia engine weighs 99kg with no water or oil in and I would expect a Fulvia to be a bit heavier but less the ancillaries about 100kg. Not sure about the dullage but I guess there will be a word for bits of timber used for packing/transporting.
Clarkey

[Parisien]

Dullage?

That's a no Chris, according to the Scrabble handbook of invented words only used in a single  family

P

[Parisien]

Certainly when my B12 engine was lifted into the back of an estate car it took 3 blokes, and a bystander aka myself!

P

[Wangler]

Thanks Chris, that sounds a pretty good method.

From the comments it seems that it’s perfectly practical for me to get it loaded by the garage and then unloaded at home.

PS - ullage - the amount by which a container falls short of being full. Perhaps ”dullage” is the amount by which a skull is short of being full of brain?

[Jai Sharma]

Dunnage is the word used for chocking cargo on a ship, though I prefer dullage now!

[frankxhv773t]

"Dullage" is a variation on "ullage", the amount by which a container falls short of being full, or where I came across it "an allowance given by the brewery to deal with the need to draw off waste beer from the pumps before serving, or through spillage. "Dullage" can be found in an Urban Dictionary and refers to the vacant space in the head of a particularly stupid person.  As in, "dullage is bad thing in co-workers but perhaps a good thing in the blonde at the end of the bar".

[fay66]

In the early 1960's, when I used to drive HGV's for a living, dunnage was lengths of wood that were used to chock a load from moving, particularly coils of steel, barrels  and similar.
Brian
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[chriswgawne]

Thats it Brian!!!!! Thank you.
Chris