One man motor pull?

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Had a thought (I get in more trouble that way) If you were doing a motor pull and planned on tearing down the bike & motor for rebuild / restore, wouldn't it be easy to just remove the head 1st, nail two 8' long 2X4's togather, slide through through the frame, bolt to the cyl houseing leaving some play with the head bolts. Then put one end of the 2X4's on a jack stand / saw horse close to the bike, lift the motor useing the leaverage of the 6' sticking out the other side onto anoughter stand. Remove the wheels and other stuff you may be removeing, then just slid the frame away from the hanging motor Like I said, just a thought, didn't say it was for sure a good thought

[motoman]

Good thing JAT...........

[petejw]

lol motorman,

if u pulled the head, u might as well pull the barrells
which would be easier in the bike than out of it,
then u could lift the engine out by urself with not
to much effort.

[DGXSER]

There are a few threads on here if you search hard enough for them on how a few inovative folks have gottne the engine out of the frame by themselves. Your method seams kind of challenging comparatively in my opinion.

I'd have to agree with Pete, if your planning to tear the engine down anyway, might as well remove most of the weight before you pull the engine. You could also remove the middle drive, the starter, and depending on how far your tearing into it, the rotor. After all that is off, the thing will be light enough you should not need to worry to much about how to remove it, just lift and move. Not to mention the increased clearance.

[Cobia]

Hey Lon,
The easiest way I found to pull the motor from the frame, if you're stripping it down to the frame, is to remove all but the two lower motor bolts, lay it down on it's side (right one is easier), remove the lower bolts, and lif the frame off the engine. Then you can right the engine and put it on a suitable surface to work on it. Removing the oil filter housing allows the engine to sit upright without it wanting to tip over.
I did that to both remove and re-install the engine on my XJ.

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

My Bro

Sorry guys, I left out something, this is a pic of my Bro, his nickname is eight foot two by four, they call me six foot two by four This might help to know when reading my plan And you guys are right, we can probably leave the head on the motor!

[DGXSER]

In that case, just grab it and pull it out. Honestly, when I was still chair bound after my accident, two fellow XSives came to the man cave to help me strip down Thunderstruck. With a couple moving straps, they lifted the engine intact right to the valve cover, but oil filter removed, and out of the frame without alot of problems.

[XS1100_OEM4ME]

Oil filter

Cool, that is what I will do, remove the oil filter That must why we kept banging the whole bike againest the garage roof and still couldn't get her out

In that case, just grab it and pull it out. Honestly, when I was still chair bound after my accident, two fellow XSives came to the man cave to help me strip down Thunderstruck. With a couple moving straps, they lifted the engine intact right to the valve cover, but oil filter removed, and out of the frame without alot of problems.

[TheFrugalTech]

Wish I had the link to a well documented restore I looked at before.
The guy had the bike on a bike lift and had built a simple wooden stand for each side. He added wooden "rails" to the stand running through the frame. he sat the motor on the rails, slid it into the frame, used the lift to adjust the frame position, and bolted it in.
Wish I could find that site again to look into it more, it would really come in handy with the project this winter.