Many thanks for the link to the post. I zoomed into the photos and think I have a good idea of what you did but just want to confirm a couple of items about your setup.
Mounting plate is orientated with the parallel slots at the top and the diagonal slots at the bottom.
One short bracket is used as a spacer to fit bolt into the top stabilizer bolt hole.
The two long brackets are used to fit bolts to the lowest two holes on the flange.
The last short bracket bolt does not connect to the other stabilizer bolt hole, but to the hole 2 positions above the lowest hole where the long bracket bolt is fitted.
Correct I think. It will be obvious after you get the two lowest ones on. I wanted at least one bolt as high up on the block as possible.
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Correct. Itâs at the machine shop now but when it comes back I might see if I could do the reversing the bracket trick on that one also to try and get it higher up on the block. I came up with that idea on the final bolt. It seemed pretty secure this way though.
I attempted to get the rear round core plug on my block near the center of the mounting plate for balance reasons.
Very nice, four 3/8 bolts should be plenty of strength for the load. The only down side is you canât paint it on the stand or work on the core plugs. It also seems to be an even trickier exercise to transfer onto a stand from a crane. The legs would going across each other. Youâd need a ceiling mounted crane or brute force.
