What does the XS650 engine weigh?

Made mine from scrap. Even the yellow paint was leftovers. Didn't cost a penny.

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I can't imagine the amount I'd have to invest in tools, electricians, and equipment to be able to make a free engine hoist! Maybe decades in the future my garage will be packed to the gills with enough scrap to build a whole bike. As is my $7k worth of crap-on tools are locked in a tin walled shoppe out of access to people such as myself for the foreseeable future! Maybe my furlough will end and I'll be allowed to smuggle a welder home in the back of my jeep.
Then, THEN I can REALLY be a fabricator!
 
All it cost me was time. A friend gave me an old bike lift, the steel came from a job site.
It'd cost more to have 220v ran into my gay-rag than I paid for the shattered remains of a once proud Japanese motorbike! My air compressor is a handmedown from my father, late 90's early 2000's model 150psi Crapsman! Damn thing trips my GFCI every time it turns on! That's what I get for buying someone basketcase of a home!
 
Made mine from scrap. Even the yellow paint was leftovers. Didn't cost a penny.

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That chrome is... Mwah! Beautiful!! Harbor freight sure was lucky yesterday, I drooled over a bench polisher for quite some time, until I checked my wallet that is! When my engine came out there was a hint of the black paint that once adorned it's casement, filling me with nostalgia and remorse for an appearance that I have not witnessed
 
I usually get a helper, lol. Then we enlist the help of these pipe handles I made up. It allows us to lift the motor like a stretcher and work it into or out of the frame .....

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OK, once the motor is out, what do you grab onto to move it around? For that, I made these smaller D handles. See, those buckhorn bars are good for something after all, lol .....

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I have taken in and out the motor a couple of times.
It is a bit to Heavy for a small guy like myself.
15 - 20 years ago i nailed together a platform of wood 2 x 4 - s that is of appropriate height
Making the sideways movement into ( and out off ) the frame easier.
Step by step. With the platform one can tilt it and so ---not needing to hold the weight.
Older days i put my chest against the upper frame tube and used the arms.
Lately I have used concrete or flat stone to build the platform
With wood on top ..so it is softer.
With the valve covers off there are things to hold on to.
Moving it around I get the lower rear bolt in.
And the central lower.
Then the front.
And so on
I don't bother if it hits the frame a bit since my bikes was not in good condition even when i bought them.
But I manage fairly well. Some rags under perhaps would help.
 
I've moved them a couple times. For the xs1 motor I use a regular moving dolly, it's just loose and not on a stand or anything. For the engine I'm working on I got some of those brackets that let you use a car engine stand. It doesn't help get it in or out of the frame.
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Lots of elegant professional grade solutions, and I congratulate one and all on their ingenuity. Now for the po' boys, here's what I do.
1. Screw 2 hooks into a rafter, ~18" apart.
2. Hook 1 cheapass fabric ratchet-type tiedown strap to each ceiling hook with ratchet end down.
3. Remove motor mounts from engine.
4. Insert motor mount bolts in front and rear of motor.
5. Loop the end of a tiedown kit handlebar strap over each end of each bolt.
6. Hook a ratchet tiedown to each bar strap.
7. Crank her up, no lifting involved.
Estimated cost of ratchet tiedowns, hooks, and bar straps: ~$20. Estimated time to install hooks: 10 minutes if you're clumsy. (Yes, I know those ratchet tiedown instructions say they're not for lifting, and no, even the flimsiest ratchet tiedowns don't have trouble hoisting and holding an 80 lb. load.)
 
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