I'm trying to figure out the easiest cost effective method to ship a motor on it's mount from the midwest to the DC area.
It's a TCM IO-360 FWF on the mount. I THINK it'd be possible to bolt the mount to a pallet, build a box around it and call a shipping company.
Am I nuts?
Second option is to do a road trip with a pickup truck.

How do people ship motors like this?

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You can put it on a pallet but make certain you build a box around it. I've been dealing with the shipping company and insurance for a couple months trying to get the damaged intake on my IO360 replaced.

Make sure you insure it for enough and be sure you know about any deductible. Also make sure the engine is what you think it is; not a early case with a airmelt crank.

whee wrote:You can put it on a pallet but make certain you build a box around it. I've been dealing with the shipping company and insurance for a couple months trying to get the damaged intake on my IO360 replaced.

Make sure you insure it for enough and be sure you know about any deductible. Also make sure the engine is what you think it is; not a early case with a airmelt crank.

Good advice. I'll be visiting the guy to personally inspect the motor before shipping and final payment.
The risk of damage seems so high that it might be worth the truck and road trip idea.

It's got a new crank in it as we split the case and rebuilt the bottom end in teh course of a prop strike inspection.

Use 3/4 plywood on the bottom of the box so the freight goons have to get a run at it to stick a fork through. Insure it well, as mentioned above.

If it were me and I could do the trip to pick it up over a weekend that's what I'd do.

Maybe ask some of the guys on the Maule forum to move it for you? Or if you know anyone with a Maule they could just load it in the back and zip it over there for you.

whee wrote: Also make sure the engine is what you think it is; not a early case with a airmelt crank.

Hey hey, this sounds like the voice of experience! I really like your 360 thread, it is a fine engine that lots of people overlook.

shipped my 0320 through Fastenal (the bolt place) from TX to PA for 250$ worked out good they insures up to 5,000 figured that could fix anything that got busted in shipping good luck

pilot wrote:

whee wrote: Also make sure the engine is what you think it is; not a early case with a airmelt crank.

Hey hey, this sounds like the voice of experience! I really like your 360 thread, it is a fine engine that lots of people overlook.

Ha! Thanks pilot. Sometimes speaking with the voice of experience sucks. Looking like I'll get a whopping $40 from the shipping company and $0 from the insurance company for the damage done to my engine. Man, I totally screwed up on the whole engine deal.

Shipping through Fastenal sounds like a great way to go.

Shipped a TSIO520WB Bangor Maine to Platinum Alaska. Used NAC-Link. (Northern Air Cargo). Under $1,300 They coordinated the ground freight to Anchoarage. NAC has in the past paid freight damage caused by others.... Trinco 48" Sand blast cabinet shipped from Ohio...eBay purchase...really cheap....unused...interior still coated with paint. Shipped via UPS to Platinum for just over $800... 7 years or so back. They always make good on loss or damage.