It's finally out. I obviously didn't work real hard on it this past week, a few hours here and there. Its a dirty oily pig and I am shocked at how bad the under hood wiring is, at least the wire loom. It will take me a day to repair all of that. I pick up the new engine tomorrow and I went ahead and got a small stall converter from a trail blazer inline 6. It should stall in the 2400 to 2800 rpm range. I can't really say anything was too hard, except that I'm not 20 any more so for every hour I worked, I needed 2 hours to recover. I did end up having to remove the radiator support in order to get the engine to clear, I also had to deflate the front tires. It might have been how I had the hoist set up but that wasn't too bad.

 

"Most" of the loom is usually okay. Seems that one specific larger one on the driver side that comes from the fuse box and runs down towards the cab is also some different type of plastic that literally disintegrates if you so much as touch it. lol Same as on the trucks and suv's too.... Its like GM had some different supplier for that one specific size of the loom.