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As an alternative, I used an ATV lift and a transmission lift from HF in my garage.
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Like mentioned I used a floor jack to help it the first few inches.
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All kinds of youtube's of guys using the basic harbor freight hydraulic unit.
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Hi folks,
I am planning to drop the engine and transmission (manual) out of my 986 turbo.
Does anyone know the weight of the combined unit?
I know it�s heavy enough that I don�t want to drop it on my toes 😀 but don�t know if my hydraulic platform is up to the task.
Many thanks.
I was able to drop & put my engine back in with the Harbor Freight 500lb table with one caveat - when the table is at the bottom of its throw, it wouldn't lift the motor (mine wouldn�t anyway)� I had to put a regular floor jack on each side and help it up a few inches. Once it was up 3 or 4 inches it worked fine. It seemed to me that it was a design flaw - one that�s perhaps been fixed by now (I think I did my engine work in 2017)� in any case good luck
I have the 1,000 pound harbor freight lifting table. It can pick up my 996 engine/transmission without any trouble.
It could not pick up my Cayenne's V8/transmission/transfer case from the bottom. Like mentioned I used a floor jack to help it the first few inches.
I just looked. The HF 500# table costs $250. The 1000# HF table costs $320.
People. WTF.
It's your a** on the line when you lift stuff that weighs multiples of your own weight. You're working on a PORSCHE so don't cry poormouth. Spend the money.
I can't find that table anywhere. But I can tell you that the 500 lbs version has issues with quality. The larger one does too... just not so much. As an alternative, I used an ATV lift and a transmission lift from HF in my garage. Check out my channel for more. Yogi’s Garage
can confirm. HF 500lb is about an inch lower than 1000lb. I bought the 500lb table in Nov 2023 and it worked terrific to drop the engine/transmission as a unit. Zero issues lifting from fully lowered, it has hard stops so can be left at height. I probably jacked it up and down 15 times working on the engine. Would have had clearance issues w the 1000lb.
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