Yep, good suggestions. Keep 'em coming! Definitely will heavily oil the cams and check the compression (but I need to get it turning to do that). warranty. yea man, I wish! And I really like Hugh’s idea of tapping the valve for freeness. Thanks for that. And Roger, where did you tap into the oil system? I have a little pump that runs off my drill. I can and will borrow a bore scope.
I also think I need to verify the timing as well as valve clearance. I think that there were serious arguments and discussion with the mechanic and paint shop at the end game in 1998 or whenever that was. My aunt would not discuss other than to complain, “you have no idea how much money we invested in that car!” So some things are just left undone, or missing; I just hope I find no maliciousness in the drivetrain. I need to be very careful.
How do I tell if it has the right flywheel? The trany conversion to all synchro requires a few things to make the 3.8 work with it.