Now that she is cleaned up a bit,its time to give her a heart.The donor is a 95 GMC Vandura 3500.It has a TBI350/4L80E .This use to be my Dad's van and I drove it for two years until it would no longer pass the emissions test.I put my truck battery in the van and it started right up after sitting for a little over a year.After that I began the tear down process to extract the engine and trans
I used my sawsall to cut out the bottom of the core support so the engine could come straight out.Then I had my neighbor use the John Deere from work with forks on it to come pull the motor.After he slid his forks in just on top of the air cleaner,I use 2ton ratchet straps to secure the engine to the forks.A few slick maneuvers by my neighbor and it was on the ground
