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How do I turn this into a motorcycle stand?

Emoney600

Emoney600

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Anyone have any ideas how I can repurpose this into a motorcycle engine stand? I keep reading about adapters but I can't find any for sale and I don't have the space to pull out a blow torch and melt some steel together.


http://www.harborfreight.com/automo...ands/1000-lb-capacity-engine-stand-69886.html
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Also open to alternative stands
 
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even if you find an adapter how are you going to get the bike up to the mounting point? do you have a crane? if you have a crane why do you need a stand?

sell it and use the money to get something that doesn't take 10 hours of messing around to make work?

cut the casters off and weld them to a more appropriate support structure?

get an atv jack! (my favorite garage drayage device, i use it as a workstand for the bikes that can balance on it, and to move heavy stuff around. makes a decent "annoying spare wheels and tires" dolly too)
 
attach milk crate to steel frame

hoist bike onto milk crate

???

profit!
 
auntiebling said:
even if you find an adapter how are you going to get the bike up to the mounting point? do you have a crane? if you have a crane why do you need a stand?

sell it and use the money to get something that doesn't take 10 hours of messing around to make work?

cut the casters off and weld them to a more appropriate support structure?

get an atv jack! (my favorite garage drayage device, i use it as a workstand for the bikes that can balance on it, and to move heavy stuff around. makes a decent "annoying spare wheels and tires" dolly too)
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I carried the engine from my detached garage downstairs to my balcony upstairs so I don't see why I couldn't lift it up while someone bolted it onto the stand.
I've been working on it with a table this whole time. Just seemed like it would be a lot easier to have it on a stand after seeing people twirling their engines around on stands in other videos.
 
Emoney600 said:
I carried the engine from my detached garage downstairs to my balcony upstairs so I don't see why I couldn't lift it up while someone bolted it onto the stand.
I've been working on it with a table this whole time. Just seemed like it would be a lot easier to have it on a stand after seeing people twirling their engines around on stands in other videos.
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you asked about making it a Motorcycle Stand. like a stand to hold up an Entire Motorcycle.

if you want to hold up an Motorcycle Engine, separated from the frame that's a different story, i've never seen a commercially made one designed to retrofit to a car engine stand. what engine are we talking about here?

also, if you can carry your entire motorcycle up the stairs you're a BEAST!
 
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Emoney600 said:
Anyone have any ideas how I can repurpose this into a motorcycle stand?

Also open to alternative stands
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The tricky thing to understand about motorcycle stands today are that... they don't just hold the motorcycle. They lift it into a position and then hold it. So unless you figure out a way for it to be lifted, whatever adapter to hold it into place will be useless.
 
Bling,

Good point. Couldnt change the title but I did change it to engine stand in the body of the thread.

The engine is a CBR954rr.
 
I mean, it's not a necessity. I took the engine apart on a table I'm sure I can put it back together on one. The engine stand is just a luxury. I like luxurious things : )
 
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If you have to split the cases then it would be very hard since there is no place to secu re the engine to the stand
 
You don't need adapters, the entire thing is an adapter. Just find some long bolts that thread into the block (at least 3) and use the adapter on there
 
i have

I have a crane :p
 
I used the same one for a gsxr engine. I just bought a section of 90 degree angle steel, cut it us, and drilled a couple holes to line up with the engine, and the stand brackets.

Cheap and super cost effective.
 
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