Quote Originally Posted by blowfishRus6 View Post
i think your going in a better direction there. if/when you do get the motor i would check all the gaskets out, mainly the lower intake gaskets, they came with some pretty crumie gaskets and are prone to leak coolent into the motor.

i have no idea about the trannie.
Your right what sucks is I just swapped out the LIM on my current engine with the metal gasket. So I'm hoping I can reuse it since I only had it on for a couple hundred miles. I'm going to head out there now and see what I can negotiate. Need all the luck I can get. thanks