WTB Engine Load Leveler
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bottlefed93
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yup just got one there and it works great
beertestr
Club Member
I'll have to run over there. I looked on their website, didn't see them, only the load bar you put across teh engine bay on a FWD vehicle. I try to stay away from HF and buy american, but all of the ones I ahave seen are made in China. So, I can pay a lot fo Chinese stuff, or a littel for Chinese stuff..
I hate our country's trade policy..
I still might just make one from scratch on principle, at least I'll know it's American made fer-sure.
Birdie2000
Club Member
What mods did you do to make yours LT1 specific?
beertestr
Club Member
I built one from scratch.
The off the shelf ones won't clear the cowl on a b-car, F-car is worse as I'm sure you know.
I made a plate to bolt to the intake where the TB bolts to, put a bar to the back, and made a u-shape "yoke" kinda thing to go over the back of the intake and clear the EGR valve. From there, two short pieces of chain go to the back of the heads, and clear the steam pipe. The main balance bar sits about 1/4" above the ribs on the top of the intake, and the lead screw is on the side, instead of the top to improve clearance. I had some 5/8" all thread laying around, threaded the inside of a piece of tubing, and welded it to a piece of square tube slightly larger than the outside dims of the balance bar. I took some 1/4" plate and made a hanging ring...
Worked awesome in my Caprice. I have some ideas to reduce the height of it in the back more. If I remember, I'll snap a pic of it tonight.
Theoretically, you could just mount a carb style lift plate to the 4 M6 holes that hold the fuel rail down. The fasteners have the tensile strength to lift several times more than an LT1 and trans weigh, and there is more than enough thread in the intake casting..... but I dropped theory in and made something I am more comfortable with
.. Not quite 1000 words, but I don't have a pic handy.
beertestr
Club Member
Pics attached
Actually it was $42 with tax.... I might fire up the tools and mod the lt1 leveler
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Birdie2000
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Wow, that's pretty sweet! Looks a lot safer (theory aside) than the ol' happy hooker. I never liked the idea of supporting it with the fuel rail bolts either.
