Will Harbor Freight 1 Ton Hoist Reach?

[Nates1999]

I have to pull my head, and the hoist I had lined up fell through.  I can either a new or used 1 ton HF hoist, and am wondering if it will reach our motors.  I'm only using it to pull the head, as it's just me, and there are no handy trees around me to help.

[Cowboy]

From the center of my engine, to the front of the bumper is about 39"  It says it can reach up to 45". so you should be good.  Worse case you can insert your own extension, as the head ways all of 130lb's

[Nates1999]

REALLY?  I heard it was 200.

[TFaoro]

It's 151 pounds dry... I just weighed mine.

[Cowboy]

Apparently my back-o-meter is reading a little low, figures...  I guess I need to recalibrate it.

[Nates1999]

Just went and measured.  Looks like the actual usable length of the 2 ton hoist is only 43" from the Ram to the hook.  Unfortunately due to my Ranch Hand bumper I'm going to need more like 50".  May have to look into alternative removal techniques.

[CTcummins24V]

Get a hoist and buy some heavy duty square tubing and make your own extension. Might have to beef up the hoist though, BOMBed. I beefed up a torin (big red) hoist and it worked just fine, lifted motor and tranny.  

[Nates1999]

Rental yard down the road has a towable hoist that should be long enough.  I think I'm going to manage

[TFaoro]

I would take the bumper off.... You'll have a hoist to put it back on

[gh0stman]

I wouldn't use harbor freight material. When I did my transmission swap I bought a trans jack and the 800lbs trans jack was having trouble holding 190lbs transmission.

[dripley]

I have one of those HF tranny jacks described. Except for the forward to back tilt being difficult to turn it handled my NV5600 at near 400# fine. It would not be something I would want to use everyday for a living, but served me well the one time I used it. I have to put in a new clutch soon so I will be breaking it out again. Got lucky on mine and found it on Craigs list at half retail and it had hardly been used.

[gh0stman]

I had to rig mine to where the pump handle rested on the frame or exhaust just to keep from letting down. If I would have turned the bleed screw any tighter I would have snapped it. Took it back to them after I was finished got my money back. $160

[dripley]

I could see that being a problem and the only reason I bought this one was the price. I paid 80 bucks for it.