Only if you are willing to do some preparatory Disaster Avoidance on the Donor Engine as follows:
(1) By now... MOST if not ALL Donor Motors will be fairly High Mileage and the chances to do any of
these suggestions with some manner of convenience and extreme ease due to open access will disappear the moment the Donor Motor gets Dropped Under The Hood. If you think I'm KIDDING Watch what THIS Dude has to go through:
Uh... NEVER Use Thread Locker on Trapped Fasteners with *Floating Grommets" that only require 89 Inch Pounds of Torque.
If you READ EVERY RELEVANT THING ON THIS SITE BEFORE YOU PROCEED... You will be quite happy with these results.
(2) With the Engine Mounted on an Engine Stand, Pull the Crank-Case Oil Pan and the Front Timing Chain Cover to access the Oil Pan Pick Up Tube and R&R it to REPLACE THE ORANGE GEROTOR PUMP OEM OIL SEAL... and to perform a Lengthy Soak of the Pick Up Screen in a Bucket of Berryman's Chem-Dip to dissolve away all of the Awful Carbon Debris and Baked On Gas Gum Build-Up on that Screen:
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(3) Spend the Bread for an OEM Quality Timing Chain Set Kit FROM CLOYES that will include a New Timing Chain, Timing Chain Guides, Timing Chain Tensioner. Replace the Front Timing Cover Seal while the Harmonic Balancer is OFF the front of the Engine.
(4) Pull the Intake Manifold off and replace the Three Pairs of Rubber "O" Ring Gaskets and clean out the upper Intake Ports from the Greasy Carbon and tighten the Trapped Fasteners down to ONLY 89 Inch Pounds. THIS Job alone is VERY Easy To DO B4 The Motor gets installed...and damned near impossible without a LOT of trouble afterwards.
(5) Replace the Valve Train Cover "O" Ring Gaskets and evacuate any Oil/Water from the Spark Plug Wells B4 performing a Plug R&R Inspection.
(6) WITHOUT FAIL...Replace the Old Motor Mounts.
(7) Replace the Water Pump, Serpentine Belt & Tensioner.
(8) Install New recommended ACDelco Spark Plugs.
(9) The OIL Collecting inside the Intake Ports comes from having Excessive Blow By due to the Piston to Cylinder Wear and having the Pair of Upper Compression Rings TRAPPED By Gas Gum. Follow the Threads that Cover filling the Cylinders up with ACDelco Top Engine Cleaner to dissolve the Carbon and Gas Gum Lacquer to allow the *Low Tension* Compression Rings to become FREE again.
If not... the Combustion Gasses and Carbon will continue to pressurize the lower Crankcase and the spaces leading to the underside of the Valve Cover where Motor Oil gets pushed out into the Air Stream through the small Pipe in the Valve Cover and out through the PCV Rubber Tube and eventually into the Intake Manifold.
(10) R&R the Throttle Body and Clean the Carbon-Greasy Dirt from inside. Replace the Rubber Throttle Body Seal.
Remember... Don't get TOO anxious to just DROP that Engine into the SUV... The LAST "Thing" you want to find out is that there is a SERIOUS Engine Problem...AFTER going to the trouble of Swapping in a *Stranger's Motor*.
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