lifting motor without head on.

I threaded some spare bolts - not the head bolts - into the head, one in the rearmost hole passenger side, the other in the forwardmost hole on the driver side. If you bolt the rotating part of the stand in place as a separate piece (loose from the base) it doesn't matter if it's not perfectly balanced. Once that's bolted up to the block, put the rest of the fixture on and lower away.