No experience pulling engines here, but I'm compelled to chime in about lift points. I apologize if it’s all obvious/remedial…

Lifting by straps under the engine or any low point on the engine/tranny is not advisable IMO. To keep the load stable your lift point should be above the center of gravity of the load. Otherwise the load will tend to rotate to bring the CoG to the lowest point unless it is perfectly balanced.

The weights are pretty low, but it’s still worth noting that if you use multiple legs, the load in the leg will increase as the angle of the leg from vertical increases. It’s good practice to keep that angle under 45deg. from vertical to avoid a “piano wire” effect.

If you have enough headroom, perhaps a come-along could be used as one leg of the lift to improvise a load-leveler to alter the angle of the engine/tranny.

Be careful!

-Will
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