You can also use an endless strap loop around the entire engine and pan. (IE a lifting sling) ...I happened upon a dumpster of non osha approved ones at a Cat dealer one day and also keep picking them up at yard sales. No loosening head studs to attach the lifting brackets, no bent oil filter brackets, no broken bolts that way. Depending on how long the sling is you can either do one wrap in the middle of the engine or one at each end.
� �� �Those of you guys who have the WWII bumper ropes, here's something you can use it for. Or, make up a nylon sling the same way you made your hemp rope for the bumper. There are lots of tutorials on the web about how to do the loop ends in a rope, and even I could figure it out.
Of course, don't try to use a sling made out of baling twine or butcher string, or one that is full of cut strands.
