Triple engine weight

[paulincayman]

Hi Team ,
I'd be interested if anyone can tell me the approx weight of a complete engine, mine is in a million pieces. I am attempting to load up my bare rolling frame with dummy weights to simulate a complete bike . I am trying to find a sensible place / angle to attach the side stand mound I'm having fabricated. The new tires will be fitted . Naturally there will be a goodly amount of guesstimation involved in the process.
TIA
Paul

 

[1200 JOTA]

f'ing heavy ... just a guess (recently had mine out) and a guess - 120+ kg.

 

[Legs]

Don't try to put on the scales on your own

 

[Gerald]

IIRC the engine, fully assembled, minus starter and carbs is around 85 kg.
20 years ago I could lift the sucker out by myself, nowadays I resort to a chain hoist...

HTH
Gerald

 

[Ian D]

IIRC the engine, fully assembled, minus starter and carbs is around 85 kg.
20 years ago I could lift the sucker out by myself, nowadays I resort to a chain hoist...

HTH
Gerald

Yep know that feeling.

 

[piranha-bro2]

I'm sure I've lifted my assembled SF engine off the workbench and to the frame ... in some foggy past.

 

[mauricejota7604]

80KG

 

[Paul Marx]

Yep, around 85 kg.
Paul

 

[1200 JOTA]

80KG

that means that I should be posting in 'getting old' ... where things feel heavier than they are!

 

[paulincayman]

Thanks gents..very helpful. Id better move all bits back downstairs before I get too excited.

 

[OneThinBloke]

Thanks gents..very helpful. Id better move all bits back downstairs before I get too excited.

Been there! I dry built my Eagle restoration in a 1st floor bedroom. It did NOT take the engine upstairs! Eagle/GT 750 engine weighs more than the 3cyl

 

[Laverdalothar]

we pulled a 3CL once upstairs to the first (high) floor of an old building in Munich. Friend of my brother owned it and it needed a restore. He did not have a barn or garage to do it, so we pulled the sucker up the first stair to a plateau, turned it step by step, pulled it up to the next level, needed to pusch it backwards into his flat's bedroom, forward again into the corridor to move it straight into his guest room where he disassembled it. Never will forget this...

 

[Dellortoman]

Haha! I did that with an AJS 500 (a bit lighter than a Laverda triple) when I was about 20. Getting it up the stairs was OK with a couple of mates to help. But going down I made the bad decision to do it by myself. I figured it would be a simple matter to sit on the bike and let it roll down slowly, controlling it with the front brake. But the crappy SLS front brake wouldn't hold it and it all got out of control very quickly. I ended up crashing at the bottom of the stairs and breaking my wrist.

 

[piranha-bro2]

You bloody turkey, Cam!! Almost a Darwin award that one! Well, not quite ... but pretty silly

 

[Dellortoman]

Well, I was young and dumb and had a naive expectation that the brake would actually stop the wheel from turning. I'd done the "roll down the stairs" manoeuvre a couple of weeks earlier on a house-mate's single cylinder Ducati and it went OK, but that bike had a decent front brake.

 

[Exmoor beast]

I did the Red Marley hill climb on a Dutch Army 350 Triumph done out like Steve McQueens Great escape bike that a mate built for me.
I conked out before the last jump and decided to ride DOWN the hill..fork seal had leaked oil into the front hub so no front brake and hardly any rear, ended up crashing into the safety fence all tangled up in post and rope- about the only bit of my ride that bore any resemblance to Steve McQueen.

 

[piranha-bro2]