How to get your old longblock engine ready for shipping to us, so we can remanufacture it and send it back to you.

   1. Get a pallet at least as pretty as this one. If you buy one, don't pay more than $6. Go around back of stores and factories and ask the nice man if you can have one. They usually want to get rid of them. Pallets are usually 40 or 48 inches wide. The pallet must be at least 32" wide from runner to runner to fit on forklifts after it leaves your place.

  2. Get straps or chain or rope or banding or heavy gage baling wire and a couple of dozen 16 penny nails or 2 1/2" to 3" screws. This set of  four straps came from Sam's Club and was about $13. We will send them back with the fresh engine...ummm usually.

3. Cut six 2X4 pieces the same length as the pallet is wide.

4. Screw or nail two of the 2X4's seven inches apart to the  three solid runners under the slats.
                               

5. Nail the remaining 2X4's on top, piggyback style. Your two short stacks of 2X4's support the engine block by the oil pan rails on the sides. Some big block engines may need the 2X4's placed a bit farther apart. 
 

6. Set the engine in the new cradle... and band, strap, rope or wire the engine around the middle of the engine and diagonally across the center runner under the pallet.
 
If the engine is drippy or slimy wrap it in plastic or a garbage bag. Alternately, you can lay a big cotton rag under the engine.
 
7. Wrap cardboard over the engine and hold it on with 2 straps or wire, etc.

8. Print 3 copies of the freight bill we fax or e-mail you and tape one to the top of the cardboard for use as an address label. If it doesn't stick (cold, wet, etc.), put the label in a Zip Lock baggy and Zip Tie to the engine.

9. Contact  us at 415-738-7388 or remanufactured@comcast.net before 1 PM, and our customer service representative can try to get a pickup the same day, or you can call after 1 PM for a pickup the following day.

10. Hand the truck driver the two freight bills and get one back from him with his signature and a tracking sticker on it.

11. Now, you have to get the engine on the 48 inch tall truck bed using one following methods.
A. Your forklift at your place.
B. If you still have the cherry-picker, chain fall or come-along, off a tree, try to use that. Lift using a short chain bolted to the head or heads with the pallet dangling. Generally speaking, a cherry picker that will lift a fully dressed engine over a fender on a car up on jack stands will easily load a short chain lifted longblock onto a 48" tall truck bed. Both of our cherry pickers, for example, will lift the bottom of a pallet over 6 foot in the air.

C. Ask Laura where the closest terminal is for our shipper. Some terminals have late or even 24 hour drop off. Get the engine on the back of a pickup truck or tilt bed landscape trailer and take it to the local terminal so a forklift can easily remove it .
If it makes it any easier to handle, it's OK to remove the cylinder heads and band them to the skid separately. Just make sure we get ALL the longblock parts. It's just as important to not send us anything extra either as we will certainly throw it away.

D. Order lift gate service through Laura. The truckers charge $40 for liftgate service and another $40 for residential delivery.

Remanufactured Engine Air Freight and Ocean shipping outside the USA
Returning an old engine core from overseas is generally not cost effective so pricing estimates below are for one way.

European Orders

Phone or e-mail most of your questions at once and tell us right up front what seaport you want it sent. The European style of using 25 e-mails for 25 questions can cause confusion. Ten e-mails in two different languages, will result in 3 different interpreters and tragic misunderstandings.

Please try to have an English speaking technically minded left brained guy helping you with the order.

Ocean  freight including the overland USA part, USUALLY runs between $450 and $600 USD and ship time to most of Europe is approximately 18 days, same as Australia and most other places. Airfreight is about a week. You must pick it up at a seaport or airport terminal.  If you are handling the overseas part, estimated land transport to American ocean ports for export on a treated export pallet is $147.50 for East Coast, $197.50 West Coast.

Engine crating for overseas used to be $85, but temporarily, it's free, at least until we run out of plastic crates, that means, subject to change at any time. 
Rule of thumb has air freight at about double the cost of ocean freight.

Call 1-415-738-7388 or e-mail us at remanufactured@comcast.net for a quote.

The customer assumes responsibility for  unforeseen additional expenses and risk outside the USA. Costs incurred in returning an engine for incorrect application or warranty repairs or anything else, for that matter, are not covered. However, insurance is available that covers shipping costs in the event of a defective engine warranty claim or incorrect application. The price is 25% of the estimated round trip cost and is paid in advance.

Remanufactured Engine Ground Shipping prices within the the USA

Whether you ship your engine to us for remanufacture or we ship to you first or on an exchange basis, shipping is $----- each way for  gasoline engines under 364 cubic inches and $---- for eight cylinder gasoline engines over 364 cubic inches to business locations or terminals in the United States except the following Eastern and Western states . *CA, NV, ID, MT, WY, UT, AZ add $-- to shipping price above. WA, OR add $--, Oahu add $--. Guam add $-- . Buying outright is OK with us. Just add the core deposit.

Shipping time estimates for USA and possessions

These are just estimates. E-S-T-I-M-A-T-E-S

E-S-T-I-M-A-T-E-S

Freight is shipped nonexpedited which means they can take up to a month to lose it find it, lose it and find it again. Want a tracking number? Don't bug us about a tracking number until it's 5 days overdue past the figures below. 25 minutes on hold and four long distance phone calls to find out an engine is on a truck is silly.

SO..When it's 5 d-a-y-s o-v-e-r-d-u-e

call us and we'll get right on it.

To estimate the total number of days it will take for the engine to be trucked to us, for us to custom remanufacture it, and then ship it back to you, double the number of days listed below next to your state, then add the quoted figure for remanufacturing time**.

Alabama 2.7
Alaska 7 -14
Alberta 5.0
Arizona 4.1
Arkansas 4.0
British Colombia 5.5
California 4.1
Colorado 3.2
Connecticut 3.4
Delaware 3.0
Florida 3.2
Georgia 2.9
Guam 10.0
Hawaii 7.0
Idaho 4.5
Iowa 2.7
Kansas 2.8
Kentucky 2.6
Louisiana 3.3
Maine 3.5
Manitoba 2.8
Maryland 3.0
Massachusetts 3.3
Minnesota 2.6
Mississippi 2.7
Missouri 2.6
Montana 4.0
Nebraska 2.6
Nevada 4.8
New Hampshire 3.4
New Jersey 3.1
New Mexico 3.6
New York 3.0
North Carolina 3.1
North Dakota 3.0
Ohio 2.5
Oklahoma 2.8
Ontario 2.7
Oregon 4.4
Pennsylvania 2.9
Puerto Rico 7.0
Quebec 4.0
Rhode Island 3.4
Saskatchewan 3.8
South Carolina 2.8
South Dakota 2.8
Tennessee 2.5
Texas 3.3
Utah 3.9
Vermont 3.4
Virginia 3.1
Washington 4.4
West Virginia 2.7
Wyoming 3.6

~estimates!! Remember Tom Hanks in Castaway? ~