Install eng. chain hoist in garage ceiling ?

[Excaliber]

I thought about a chain hoist in my garage as well, decided to stick with a cherry picker. I installed my side oiler WITH the trans bolted to it with a picker, worked out rather well.

[Ron61]

Depending on your floor set up, both can and will work well. My friend who owns a garage and changes engines almost daily for people has both and he uses the engine lift or cherry picker more than the hoist. His e stalls aren't real wide and he doesn't have much room to move a big pick up to one side or the other if it isn't lined up just right, so the cherry picker works better. And of course he has a smooth concrete floor and the hoist has a very heavy duty set of beams across the ceiling and I have seen him lift big diesel engines with it and no problem.

But like what was stated earlier in a post, cover everything from the windshield forward just in case. He has a big commercial padded blanket type thing that even covers the windshields in the cars and pickups. But this stuff is expensive and would not be practical for the normal home owner to buy.

Ron