Wanted: I'm looking for an air-cooled engine yoke adaptor for an engine stand
Like this http://www.itinerant-air-cooled.com/viewtopic.php?t=12055 (http://www.itinerant-air-cooled.com/viewtopic.php?t=12055)
I use a stand from Machine Mart, the yoke needed a bit of modification, basically some steel tubing as spacers on longer bolts.
I think (from memory) that it has bolts for the top two points and the bottom 2 it just leans on so I cant turn the engine upside down but good for what I wanted it for
Going to wait until the warm weather is well and truly over before I start taking it to bits for a refresh so I'll see then what I need if I can't get a proper yoke so thanks for the info
My personal view is that they are a bit of a waist of money, because you have to half build an engine before you can put it on the stand and when you get to that stage it is just as easy to finish it off on a bench. Also when it is half built it more or less takes two people to put it on the stand and when it is finished, it definitely takes two people to take it off. Also, unless you get brackets made up to mount a starter motor; you can not get it running on the stand. Where as if you have it on the bench you can slip a gearbox on it or bell housing to start it. So it is a bench for me but every one to their own way.
Rob