Engine Weight?

[Rollin668]

Anyone know how much the GS engine weighs?
Approximate if fine... or better yet - can it be carried by one NORMAL person or do I need an accomplice?

Thinking about removing the engine, dragging it upstairs to my apartment and fixing the engine in my living room - wife is gonna LOVE me!!!  Seems like either everyone wants too much money for an engine or I can't find one.

Also, I'm wondering what I might be in for when I start taking this thing apart to replace/fix the counter balancer bearings - remember that my counter balancer has a lot of freeplay inside the engine now and there's a nice small groove cut into the side cover.  


Rolly

[KevinC]

The whole engine weighs about 125 lbs. and is a pretty tough go by yourself. If you take the head and cylinders off it will be sort of manageable.

I suspect your cases will be toast - the bearing shell tends to spin in the cases when it sticks to the ahft, and screws up the tightly toleranced machined surface where the shell bearing sits.

[octane]

Yeah, they're tough to move around solo. It's not so much the weight as the awkwardness of it. I strapped mine to a hand truck to maneuver it around - you might try that strategy to at least tackle the stairs.

[Cal Price]

Ask her indoor to give you a hand, errrrrrrrrr praps not.