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Lawson Cox · 04-09-2022, 09:08 PM

Can anyone give me the approximate weight of a 60HP engine and transmission combination? I do not have access to that info. I'm figuring close to 700lbs. How far off am I? Thanks. Lawson

swoopNZ · 04-10-2022, 03:38 PM

390 lbs

Jack E/NJ · 04-10-2022, 04:38 PM

Still too heavy to lift by yourself Lawason. You might hurt yourself.

Lawson Cox · 04-10-2022, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by swoopNZ

390 lbs

Source of your information, please. I discovered Ford stated 300 pounds on just engine.

Lawson Cox · 04-10-2022, 06:21 PM

[QUOTE=Jack E/NJ;2120191]Still too heavy to lift by yourself Lawason. You might hurt yourself.[/QUOTE

Yep. Hernias are no fun.

V8COOPMAN · 04-10-2022, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Lawson Cox

Source of your information, please. I discovered Ford stated 300 pounds on just engine.

I don't KNOW this to be a fact, but the 300 lbs. figure MAY be WITHOUT flywheel, pressure plate, clutch disc and generator. GM had a habit of listing engine weights that way back in the '50s and '60s. Coop

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mfirth · 04-11-2022, 07:06 AM

I knew a guy who carried a "bare block" down to his basement by himself in the 60s. He was a big fella but not real muscular.

Kens 36 · 04-11-2022, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mfirth

I knew a guy who carried a "bare block" down to his basement by himself in the 60s. He was a big fella but not real muscular.

Yeah, but did he carry it back UP the stairs?

Ronnieroadster · 04-11-2022, 02:25 PM

I along with a friend easily carried a stock V-8 sixty including the complete flywheel assembly from the top of a file cabinet where it was being stored into the back of a pickup and them out of the truck once I got home. Doubt we were lifting 300 pounds BUT I was a bit young at the time.
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04-09-2022, 09:08 PM	#1
Lawson Cox Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Above the gnat line in Georgia Posts: 7,009	Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission Can anyone give me the approximate weight of a 60HP engine and transmission combination? I do not have access to that info. I'm figuring close to 700lbs. How far off am I? Thanks. Lawson __________________ Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end, the faster it goes. It is better to be seen, than viewed. "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm".

04-10-2022, 03:38 PM	#2
swoopNZ MEMBER EMERITUS Join Date: May 2010 Location: New Zealand Posts: 1,380	Re: Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission 390 lbs

04-10-2022, 04:38 PM	#3
Jack E/NJ Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,173	Re: Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission Still too heavy to lift by yourself Lawason. You might hurt yourself.

04-10-2022, 06:21 PM	#5
Lawson Cox Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Above the gnat line in Georgia Posts: 7,009	Re: Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission [QUOTE=Jack E/NJ;2120191]Still too heavy to lift by yourself Lawason. You might hurt yourself.[/QUOTE Yep. Hernias are no fun. __________________ Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer to the end, the faster it goes. It is better to be seen, than viewed. "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm".

04-11-2022, 07:06 AM	#7
mfirth Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: ohio Posts: 986	Re: Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission I knew a guy who carried a "bare block" down to his basement by himself in the 60s. He was a big fella but not real muscular.

04-11-2022, 02:25 PM	#9
Ronnieroadster Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: East Coast in CT Posts: 1,537	Re: Weight of 60HP engine w/transmission I along with a friend easily carried a stock V-8 sixty including the complete flywheel assembly from the top of a file cabinet where it was being stored into the back of a pickup and them out of the truck once I got home. Doubt we were lifting 300 pounds BUT I was a bit young at the time. Ronnieroadster __________________ I use the F word a lot no not that word these words Flathead , Focus and Finish. "Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club using a Ford Flathead block" Owner , Builder, Driver of the First Ford Flathead bodied roadster to run 200 MPH Record July 13, 2018 LTA timing association 200.921 in one and a half miles burning gasoline. First ever gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to run 200 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats setting the record August 7th 2021 at 205.744 MPH