I will soon be ordering my shortblock from sal and need to make shipping arangments. I have bever shipped anything bigger than 5lbs much less 300lbs. What company should I go with? How much? How long will it take?


thanks
joe santana
oh btw....i will be shipping from sals shop(NY) to my house(CA)

 

I think Sal should know how to take care of such things.

 

I am pretty sure Sal has he ability to arange shipping. My guess is that it will be a Freight truck doing the shipping. It will take some time as it is coming ground on a truck...Most of these trucks only bring it to you. You will have to provide a way to get it off the truck. It happens to us all the time with heavy mechanical orders we place....

 

Just put $1632 worth of U.S. stamps on it, and air mail it.

 

Just ask your Dealer....they have a lot of experience with this.

Jim

 

not rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor weight of engine block...or something...

 

I bought an engine from Kenny Duttweiler for my CJ-5 . He took care of the shipping. Just make sure you have a way of getting the engine off the truck it arrives.

Spike

 

Go to frieghtquote.com and get an estimate for shipping. I've had a couple of Harley's shipped from Virginia to Louisiana and it cost about $300.00 for a 700 lb crate.


Todd

 

definitely need a pallet jack or something to get the thing off

 

pallet jack if the truck has a lift gate or a forklift if it arrives on a non-lift gate vehicle

 

since you said it is shipping to your house, you might tell the freight line to hold it at their terminal. you can then pick it up in a pickup truck, which they will load, and then you and your buddys can get it out of the pick-up at your leisure

 

In a pinch I've used a pile of tires (without wheels) on the ground and pushed the engine crate onto them. Then we used an engine hoist to put it onto a cart to take it into the shop before mounting it on an engine stand.

 

thanks for the info guys

what i was really looking for though was like names of companies, phone numbers, web sites, email adress', etc....
but all this other info has helped me a lot too

thanks

 

J15BIG, are you sure Sal even has a shop? Are you sure he won't be drop shipping from a different location? I was under the impression that Sal did not have an actual shop where you can go to get your L worked on. Maybe I am wrong, but find out for sure.

 

i dont know if he has an actual shop...he is only making my shortblock for me...he is not going to be putting it in.