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Old 10-15-2013 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by usdmholden
Those are all a whole lot of bling to replace $15 worth of angle steel and bolts from Home Depot, and then 20-30 minutes with a drill. Afterwards you will have a couple feet of angle steel left over for some other project.

If you are going to buy a lift plate, get the kind which allows you to change the location of the hook, otherwise the engine will hang at a poor angle for pulling the engine and trans as an assembly. Really though, this is where angle steel and chains works great. You can put the hook anywhere you want and get the angle perfect.
X2 I agree, and I have a welder and the material sitting right here in my garage!!
Old 10-15-2013 | 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 1BAD98LS1
QTP, that's the same one I have, it works wonders but wish I would have made one instead of spending the money. Got to figure in shipping costs too
10 bucks for shipping.. So 70 bucks at summit. Worth the piece of mind & couple hours of labor making one lol
Like your username btw lol. My tag says 1BADZ28
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Old 10-15-2013 | 07:48 PM
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Sweet!! guess what my plate says......

1BADLS1 ...VA tags, I need to figure out how to get pics uploaded to this site so I can show pics. Still not that up to date on technology lol working on it
Old 10-15-2013 | 08:03 PM
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Its easy man if your on a smart phone download the ap for the site & right where you are writing the thread there is a + beside the send button. Click on it & you can load pics to the thread
Old 10-15-2013 | 08:04 PM
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VA tags? You a veteran? Thats a sweet tag also!



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