[Ironangel]

Piece of 3/8 tow chain about 2' ft long. Use a short head bolt or a grade-8 7/16-14 X 2" long bolt in one of the head bolt holes. You'll need two, one for each side, one near the front and the other near the rear of the motor so the chain loosely spans the lifter valley diagonally. You'll hook the hoist near center of the motor on the chain. You may need to use lifting lugs to fasten the chain to the bolts or the lugs with small clevises and then a bolt through the lifting lug and screwed well into the block. You may need to protect the mating surface of the heads from scratches and nicks from the chain or lifting hardware. If using head bolts presents a problem, you can use a couple of grade-8 3/8-16 bolts. One in a water pump hole at the front of the block and the other in one of the transmission bell housing holes at the rear. You'll need a little longer length of chain for those hook on points. The first pic shows a block being lifted with head bolts... You can sometimes use a lifting lug to bolt the chain to the block if the chain links wont allow a bolt to pass through. I've used the factory lifting lugs just to keep the chain from binding on the bolts or breaking over the thin castings of the lifter valley front and rear. Heres some pics of the lugs. I like to use these in the 1/4" size. SWL is 1000lbs and they fit right through 1/4"-3/8" high test chain links. "Shackles" are another name for them.