engine modeling - prep for animation

[Favaron]

Hi there people,

I´m using 3ds max and here is the engine I´m working on:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../engineset.jpg

Well, now comes the hard part... I tried all day long to set parts to work as follows on the next link:

http://www.base80.com/Images1/xs-files/oli_4.gif

but after so much effort I got a big nothing! Well, I´m not an expert in setting IK solvers and contraints, so if anyone has already made something like it please tell me how to do, before I go on crazy.