120 engine removal

[captainbugwash]

Whats the easiest/safest way to get engine out? lay down on right hand crankcase and lift frame off?

 

[Simonr501]

Yes

 

[drikko]

Well that was easy, can we go off topic now?

 

[Davo]

Yes.

 

[laverdakeith]

Remove engine mounts jack it up a bit and slide it out on two pieces of wood.


    Keith

 

[mauricejota7604]

If you have a chainblock suspend above the bike sling below the inlet manifolds lift up tilt back remove to the left.

 

[Terry Dymond]

The easiest way is to get a mate to give you a hand, that way not only can you get the engine out but hoik it up onto the workbench in one easy move. Then have a few beers celebrating a job well done.

 

[Rockitdoc]

The easiest way is to get a mate to give you a hand, that way not only can you get the engine out but hoik it up onto the workbench in one easy move. Then have a few beers celebrating a job well done.

+1

 

[Paul LeClair]

120 engine is way easier to remove than a 180. Take all the engine mounts off, gives lots of room.

Keith's suggestion is the easiest if you do not intend to strip the rest of the bike. Put the bike on the center stand, put a couple of long planks under the motor supported by jack stands, then just pull the bike on its center stand away from the motor. Easiest to do alone as well.

If you are going to lift a mostly stripped frame off the motor, that is easiest with two people, and with the engine laying on its left, primary chain case, side.

I have never tried with a chain/sling hoist as I don't have one, but sounds easiest of all.......

Paul LeClair

 

[Dellortoman]

I have never tried with a chain/sling hoist as I don't have one, but sounds easiest of all.......

I'm astonished that there's a tool you don't have Paul

I wouldn't be without one. Less than $100 for a 1 ton chain hoist. Much cheaper than a hernia operation.

 

[chrisk]

Much cheaper than a hernia operation.

Too right, and then you couldn't do it again for at least 8 weeks after the operation. If you needed to, say: Extract the cam chain side plate out of the crankcase.

 

[captainbugwash]

Thanks all for advice. I did it as described in first post. Frame was alot heavier than I was expecting no wonder the bike is so heavy.
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[Dellortoman]

Now you'll have to take it out again to paint the frame 

 

[captainbugwash]

Now you'll have to take it out again to paint the frame 

Thats why i've stripped the bike to get it all looking like new again 
It's only taken 26 years to get round to it