Problems using Engine Crane

[Sizewell]

I am lvl 47 and thought I would try using the engine crane & stand.
I built an engine on the stand, but now cannot seem to get it to the crane/car.
Can take if off the stand but when I try using the crane, it says there are no items to work with even though engine group is in my inventory. It is the correct engine because I took it out of the car (but not using the crane).
Help?

[Golly]

Did you pull the engine out of the car using the crane? If not you won't be able to put a engine in using the crane

[Sizewell]

Originally posted by Gollywog:

Did you pull the engine out of the car using the crane? If not you won't be able to put a engine in using the crane

As I said, I did not use the crane to take it out.
Cannot see the reasoning behind "to put an engine in a car using the crane, you must first take it out of the car using a crane"

So I have to strip the engine on the stand, and build it back into the car manually. Thats ridiculous. I think I will do it another day.

[dogwalker1]

The crane & stand feature is a little constrained and unintuitive in that way... If they fixed that I might use them.

[Sizewell]

I have stripped and rebuilt hundreds of engines in the game manually and thought I would try using the crane, but if its so buggy (according to the net) and restrictive, I dont think I will bother using it. Which is a shame.

[Golly]

Originally posted by Sizewell:

Originally posted by Gollywog:

Did you pull the engine out of the car using the crane? If not you won't be able to put a engine in using the crane

As I said, I did not use the crane to take it out.
Cannot see the reasoning behind "to put an engine in a car using the crane, you must first take it out of the car using a crane"

So I have to strip the engine on the stand, and build it back into the car manually. Thats ridiculous. I think I will do it another day.

Originally posted by Sizewell:

It is the correct engine because I took it out of the car (but not using the crane).
Help?

Like I just said. Take the engine out of the car with the crane, then you'll be able to put the new engine in. If you don't do that first the game doesn't seem to like putting a engine back in

[[Flying Falcon Cargo NL] Alice]

when building: place block, lift up, place crankshaft, lift down, place pistons, lift up, bolt rod caps(and the rest that is mounted from the underside).. lift down, finalize the engine build. <-- this is to be done 2x on a car since you'll be doing the same in reverse when taking it apart.

I got the engine turned 90 degree on the engine stand and can build the whole thing in that mode/position. You only have to lift the car once up and down to remove the drivetrain + gearbox

So maybe i'm lucky with my particular game, but I haven't experienced any sort of bugs with the engine crane/stand aslong you keep in mind that you have to use the crane to remove the engine instead of manually taking it apart from the engine bay.

From a realistic point of view I would say ''yes, the game should register it when the engine bay is empty, by crane or manually, but who knows, perhaps that is a serious ♥♥♥♥♥ for Red Dot to program into the game or something. If not, feel free to apply for a job there and help them out;)

[Hurst Quayzar]

Just to be clear, the engine you build on the engine stand MUST be the SAME type of engine that came with the car. You can’t swap engine types in game. Some engine types are named pretty close to another, so verify before you build. I haven’t had an issue with the crane / stand.

[wolfman77_24]

I have not had any problems with the crane/stand. I have manually taken out a block and then used the crane to install a complete engine.