F15Falcon

Here is a small article on how to build an engine lift plate. You can buy them, but what fun is that? I have several engine plates, but they always seem to walk away or be lent out. I needed one pronto so I built this one. Save the debate on engine lift plates for another thread. I have used them for 25 years with great success.

I used a piece of 1/4" plate for the bottom plate:




I marked it and cut it with a 4 1/2" angle grinder:





I used a carb spacer and a transfer punch to mark the holes. The holes were drilled and de-burred top and bottom:









The vertical plate is a piece of 3/8" thick x 3" wide x 6 1/2" long. I built a small fixture for my lathe, and used an 1 3/8" holesaw on an arbor to bore the holes. You can also use a drill press or a torch to cut the holes:







The vertical plate is clamped in place, and welded:







A little paint, and it will be ready for battle:

roka-88

Looks like one healthy lift plate. good article

hightower2011

Nice article, I might make one myself after seeing how easy this was. Enough playing around with washers for me....

kalli

ya, we lifted a few and refused to buy a lift plate for that money. So we made one as well. quite sturdy as well. will post pictures. It's a have-to-have

on that note: falcon do you have a website or something. Any place to accumulate all those how to make it yourself articles?