A lot has been going on, new brakes, new brake lines rubber and metal, new shocks, endlinks, shifter cable is fixed had to track down a original genuine gm cable I now have two of those cables as I bought a spare also. Pulled the engine out Friday night and it just amazes me the stuff people do I think the guy iirc said he paid someone a couple hundred bucks to install this newer 84-85 3.8 well they didn’t do a good job at all it’s probably a good thing they didn’t get this driveable as the bellhousing bolts were not only loose there were only 2 of 6 installed. The engine was trying to pull away from the trans probably would’ve broken the bellhousing. The motor mount bolts were loose, one was way to small so the engine liked to rock back and forth. The torque converter bolts they put a lock washer on pretty sure they don’t use lock washers on them I’ll have to look in my service manual and double check as these look newer, they just cut misc grounds and wires off the donor car this newer engine came from and shoved it in the engine bay of the Indy I guess just to see if it would run. I put it back on the ground yesterday and rolled it out to pressure wash the engine bay and plan on going through the wiring harness to see if it’s been butchered i don’t think it has but still going to check. Also going to reloom the harness and may do some rerouting just to clean things up. Glad to get this mess of a engine out. Can’t wait to get the original engine back from the machine shop I will be repainting it in the GM corporate blue it originally left the factory with. Also have a mint original air cleaner assembly that will be here Monday or Tuesday for it
