Long time coming for an update. After letting this sit for far too long, I've began working on this in earnest the past couple weeks. Saturday was a productive day. I had the drive train disconnected and it was mostly out, resting on the front radiator support. I wanted to pull the engine and transmission together, but it wouldn't come out attached. The bottom of the oil pan wouldn't clear the radiator support, and the transmission horked up the removal angle. Had I removed the A/C compressor, the oil filter adapter, and the alternator, it would've worked. I've been trying to save the donor truck for parts so that I could resell it as a wrecked shell, but then had the epiphany that if someone tried to repair it, the front radiator support would have to be removed anyway, as the truck had been crunched on the passenger's front corner. By the time my buddy arrived, I had already sectioned it. We muscled it out about 45 mins after he arrived.

Going to start removing the drive train from the VehiCROSS in a couple weeks, as I need to clean the garage a bit. Since the header bolts wouldn't budge, I had to cut the headers off. I marked 'em, so I'll be taking them off the engine and taking them to get welded back together in the interim.