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Posted By: cme469 Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 04:22 PM
Planning a trip this coming Jan to Arizona and am thinking about getting some of my Pontiac parts out of storage and back to northern California. One of the parts is a 1965 WT. 389 from a GTO. We'll be in my wife's suv (she doesn't want to take the trip in a truck). So it's either rent a one way U-haul, or think about shipping. Anyone have suggestions on shipping or have done this before? Hate to pull a trailer all that way. Like the song says "I can't drive 55".
Thanks
Ron
Posted By: ramair68 Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 04:59 PM
Yes, be a man and tell the wife "we're taking the truck!"
Posted By: Bob S. Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 05:33 PM
Unless it’s a piece of crap Asian SUV, you can stick the motor in the back
Posted By: uconn86hgiv Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 05:42 PM
I'd take the truck!
Posted By: cme469 Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 06:14 PM
Yup, all things I've thought about. Her answer....."The GMC. is too big, the Ford is too small, I don't want to smell an engine in my car." etc. etc. etc. Maybe it's my chance of talking her into letting me buy a new truck that's "just right". LOL!
Posted By: Gus68 Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 07:37 PM
I shipped my 389 engine plus other parts from Portland to the Canada border at Alberta using uShip.com

Cost $.50 - $1.00 / mile

Tell sweetness she’s picking up the tab.

Tell her you take bitcoin, cash or BJ’s. lol
Posted By: Dr. Drivability Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 07:43 PM
Leave her home laugh
Posted By: cme469 Re: Shipping an engine - 10/19/17 07:58 PM
You guys are killing me! LOL. Keep em coming!
Posted By: wovenweb Re: Shipping an engine - 10/20/17 02:17 AM
I used Fastenal to ship 600 lbs. of engine parts from San Antonio, TX to Minnesota. The price was $175. A transmision core from NYC to MN was $100

The engine builder will ship the completed engine and trans to me here in SA. Expecting to pay $250. Your local Fastenal will need to have a fork lift and be able to load somehwere other than an 18-wheeler dock.

Times aren't guaranteed, it gets moved around on their trucks as loads permit. Took about a week for each of the two cases I dealt with.
Posted By: cme469 Re: Shipping an engine - 10/20/17 05:18 PM
Appreciate your replies, checked out the places Gus68 and wovenweb suggested. Very helpful.
Thanks again.
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