Making an engine stand, the overkill way

[mosesburb]

Nice thumb. That is so something that I would do.

I was at a shop today that had a 24V on a typical parts house stand mounted (sort of) to a plate mounted to the lower block on the oil cooler side. Had a plate mounted to the block and that mounted to the plate that the "adjustable arms" would typically mount to. There were four bolts at various angles through the two plates and three of them had nuts on them. The fourth was there but its support was in spirit only. It obviously worked, but it seemed just a little bit sketchy. Otherwise it looked like they did some nice work.