[mr48chev]

I've done it on a carbureted van using an engine plate and flipping the bar on the cherry picker over and rigging a short coupled hookup so the end of the cherry picker was as close to the engine plate as I could get it. I can't find it at the moment but I made my own engine plate to use for the task. It has a heavy ring welded to it cross wise from the standard flat bar that sets on top of most engine plates running front to back. A guy Might turn a Engine plate sideways from the norm and catch it with just a Chain hook on the Cherry picker bar to get close.

I was swapping engines in the van so I couldn't do any cutting for clearance but if it is a van you own and you are sending it to the scrap yard when you are done all bets are off.

If you have the stuff to drop the trans out safely first, it may be far less of a fight if you pull the trans out the bottom and then pull the engine. That may depend a lot on where you are taking it out. We actually pulled the engine out of the donor van though the passenger door with a wrecker boom when I bought the engine.