Got the front transaxle out today. Pulled the sump pan ... eww. There are brass _flakes_ in there. It looks like the engine was recently reassembled, so I'm hoping it's break-in debris. I got all the bolts out of the oil pan (what a pain), but the pan won't come off. I guess it's not the source of the leak
Either way it's going to come off somehow ... if I break it, I guess I'll have to find one. It's getting tempting to just order a crate engine at this point, though. I still haven't found any obvious sources of the oil leak and have found plenty of other things that make me nervous.
Would that new 3.5 people have been talking about bolt in directly? I can handle the wiring without too much trouble but don't want to have to fab too much in the way of exhaust and brackets.
I'll update with some pics of the pan crud later when my wife relinquishes the laptop...
Looks like I do have to pull the pan ... was searching for parts and found this:
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