Mounting D2 & D6 Pony to Engine Stand

Nice mount but I dont know what you gained, I like to be able to turn the engine around to work on the bottom, sides and top. All I have ever done was used the work bench and the shop crane and blocks of wood for rebuilds. i would bolt the engine to a wood pallet for test run with a garden hose....WA7OPY

I just made up an adapter to mount the pony to a conventional, heavy duty engine stand. Allows rotation of the engine for access.

I wasn’t clear. This adapter is mounting to a harbor freight heavy duty engine stand. The pic has a 4 cyl Onan diesel I did recently. I absolutely want to rotate it.

Hi Team,
we had a bench with a cut out slot for the drive gear to slot into and few holes drilled to suit the base flange hold down holes secure each horizontal size pony to the work bench.

Verticals had an adaptor plate or two that suited most of them that bolted to the bench, also a few lift brackets too, otherwise we wrestled them around the bench--benches had a small swinging arm crane to do the heavy lifting.

Scan below---we also had this test/run bench that ended up in the dumper after ponies supposedly stopped coming in for repair--strange how we still needed them after that went--we then wrestled them around any handy work bench--do not get me started on new Bosses that know everything.
In the foreground of the bench top you can see bases for the two sizes of horizontals.

Cheers,
Eddie B.

Eddie,

THANK YOU for posting the picture of the test stand. I don't know how you are able to put your hands on this stuff, but it sure is interesting.

It would be nice to be able to mesh the gear to a pump or generator so you could load it down and make sure that the carb settings were right and get the rings seated before installing on a machine.

Greg

Hi Greg,
most times I did pony rebuilds as an Apprentice they were for Parts Exchange short motors. So we did not have manifolds etc. to be able to run them.
Later on, time was money so the ponies for clients were overhauled and test run back on the machines.
All passed the test--lol.

I have some old literature I saved when ever I saw it in trash cans at The Dealer--often got chewed out for wasting time looking in bins--all these years later it can come in handy.
Later on even up to near when I Retired friends, Instructors and Engineers at Cat saved outdated stuff for me--not what but who I guess.
Have no late model stuff though as i was asked to leave my Cat School books etc. at The Dealer when I retired--since binned I believe--bah humbug.
Cheers,
Eddie B.

I suspect there is some packrat in about all of us that come here regularly. But then there are special people like Edb and OM that have information that must be organized as they can find. So a special thank you to all of you that take time post this information.



Organization just doesn't happen at my place.

Now it's on the stand. Seeing the test stand that Eddie posted, I may look at adding a cooling tank so I can eventually run them up on the stand