DIY Geared Rotating Engine Stand 

Thanks for this. Picked my parts up yesterday. Went to a local business who overhauls semi-truck rear ends. For warranty purposes, When they do a rebuild for retail. They automatically replace these two components with new parts. The used go into the metal recycling bin. They were great and gave them to me free. Dropped the shaft off at a friends shop where it will get a thorough cleaning. He’s going to put it in his lathe, cut off the knuckle and true up the shaft for the pillow bearing. I’m going to use it as the rotating gear on a stand that will have a grinder at the top and a grinder on the bottom. This gives me the ability to grind and polish with 4 different stones and buffers. I’ll position it in my shop to give me easy access to the adjuster. Again, thanks for the inspiration.

Great idea you saved me $$$. I'm upgrading my existing heavy duty engine stand I built in 1980.

I like the gearing method. Neat. Though an impact is a bad idea for any gears, much better to use a drill. Ive destroyed gears in jacks and other tools with impacts. I learned the hard way.

Pretty slick way to rotate. Nice build!

I just made your stand after losing my finger nail in a standard stand when the handle hit the brace. Your stand works great!

Wow!! Thank you for sharing. I found your video a little late. I purchased the rotating stand from summit however I will still make your setup for another Stand. Cheers!!

This video came up in my suggestions. 😊 I'm definitely going to make this stand and head. Subbed your channel 👍

Thank you for sharing this is awesome!!!!

Pretty neat! Looking to do something like this for rotisserie build. Thanks

That’s what I’m talking about. Great idea.

Badass brother!

Brilliant!

Your a genius

I used the 28 spine. The teeth for the worm gear are on the outside so it doesn’t matter

NICE !!!

Nice

Awesome!! Do you know where I can get those bearings and what's the part number of them. Thanks in advance.

Thanks for sharing this. I'm building a stand based on what you did here. What are the dimensions of the plate you mounted the pillow block bearings are mounted to?

Seems like a great idea. The additions also seem to be heftier than the original stand. How is this working 11 months later?

Would it be better with a 28 spline? Would it turn slower? What pros or cons could i anticipate with it? Oh my. I am thankful to come across your video!! 🙌

Does it need a positive stop to keep the engine from turning while working on it?

The S cam link does not work :(

LQ4? 😁

I thought engines were balanced on the stand. Like a car body rotisserie.

The gear boxes on summit stands are junk. Not their fault.

That is alright👍🏻 Check out the video of my engine stand.

The cost of parts and time just buy a geared engine stand. They are like 350 buck.