well, thats gonna be a close call lifting it out of the engine bay. A short block weighs about I would say, 150-175 lbs maybe, so if your really strong you might be able to lift it out, though cuz of the angle and how high you have to lift it might be tough. I was barely able to lift a short block out of my trunk with my dad, but 3 ppl it was fairly decent carrying it around.

What you might wanna do is drop the short block onto a cardboard or soemthing, and lift the car up high enough to slide the block out.

Now as far as those f22 rods being weak, i believe they are the same part as the h23 rods, and i remember the h23 and h22 rods are pretty much the same besides length, but sorry no side by side photo shots.