- Location
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
What is the best way to pack and ship an engine? Bedplates are still on.
Who has the best shipping rates for shipping?
Who has the best shipping rates for shipping?
Shipping/Packing Engines
- Thread starter OnFireForJesus
- Start date
- Location
- Cruising Around
I build a small crate from 2x4's, plywood and lag the engine to the 2x4 bottom frame.
jdakrt
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- Location
- Central VA
Tote all the way. wallyworld they are like $5. 24x18x16 I think. Use dense foam/cardboard and/or newspaper and pack it TIGHT. I drill and zip tie to top avery 3" or so. Never had an issue so far with fedex. I refuse to use UPS.
- Location
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
how much does fedex normally cost? Say east coast to West coast
- Location
- Dalhart, TX
I shipped one from California to New York via fedex for 120
jdakrt
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- Location
- Central VA
yep. plan on 75-130 depending on where. shipping is ridiculous.
- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
Use a tote and pack it with folded carboard board boxes. Florida to cali will be around $150
MarkWalker
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- Location
- Buffalo NY
Tote and shrink wrap the hell out of it the motor. Then pack cardboard around it and ball up wrap and pack it around that.
- Location
- California
I used a tote then cut a piece of plywood for the bottom and bolted the engine down through the plywood and tote with carriage bolts.
- Location
- Red Bluff CA
Wrap the engine in a black trash bagm the good ones. Drop it in whatever box it fits in. Spray foam all around the engine.
There is no better, safer, easier, or cheaper way to ship a powersport engine.
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There is no better, safer, easier, or cheaper way to ship a powersport engine.
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- Location
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
A foam like Great Stuff?
Just be very very certain the bag doesn't leak, getting great stuff off of something is not a fun task. Double or triple bagging is not a bad idea
- Location
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
right on. Thank you. If I take that approach, I will take photos.
mike b
Michael "Mayhem" Bevacqua aka MikeyChan
- Location
- California
I shipped mine with flywheel cover attached. Bed plates on or off. I dropped mine in plastic and set it in a box (14 cube I think) and fill it with packing peanuts, paper, bubble wrap, Etc. Then I get a 16 Cube box or whatever the next size up from the first box. I put foam on the bottom and on the sides drop the other box in and pack around the edges and top. Then I tape up the larger box in each Direction. I've done this method many times and haven't had anything pop up yet. If you don't think the engine will last by dropping 5 ft I would not send it that way and repack
I've never shipped a motor but I've had three shipped to me. Two were in wooden crates. One of the wooden crates was homemade and the other was purchased from some shipping supply company. Those both worked well. One was thrown basically into two cardboard boxes with a little bit of random packaging material. It arrived a little banged up, and was generally in terrible shape, not impressed with that seller. The foam thing sounds like a good idea to me withe the caveat of being careful not to get the foam on the motor. I have also seen large/heavy/valuable industrial parts shipped by putting foam in a bag on the bottom of a box, then putting foam in a bag on the top, so you effectively get two halves molded to fit the part in between but easily separated from each other. That has the disadvantage that you still need some strength from the box to keep the two foam haves tightly together, but the advantage that the receiver doesn't have to carve their part out of a block of foam.
- Location
- Red Bluff CA
In reference to foam getting on the engine. You drop it in the bag, twist it like you do your bagel bags, and then put it back through itself. 3x. If foam gets in after you do that, it was meant to be.
Normal can of whatever spray foam you want to use. You can damn near drive over the box when done.
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Normal can of whatever spray foam you want to use. You can damn near drive over the box when done.
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- Location
- South Florida
And never, ever, ship without a flywheel cover bolted in place.
- Location
- Pembroke Pines, Florida
Shrink wrapped the engine, bagged it, double bagged it, put it into the little box, great stuff between the 2 bags (be easier to take it out that way i think), small box into big box and put chunks of the hard white foam all around the small box and then Taped the big box like its came from China. Forgot to take a picture when I packed the white foam in and was not about to take it apart for a photo. Lol
