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[Firefighter46]

Guess I'm swapping in the donor cluster/clock spring/key setup next then.
This doner engine ran on the pallet.

 

[BackInBlack]

I'm now wondering if the clock spring/cluster is somehow tied to the BCM?
I'm to the point where I put power to everything today and tried to crank the motor. No luck. I got what looked like a security lock out.
I have swapped in the motor/transmission combo, pedal assy, anti-lock module, BCM, and PCM.
The vehicle still has its original clock spring/cluster/keys.
No crank, just lights on the cluster, one of which was the "lock"symbol.
I did hook up the neutral safety/pedal assy harness to the connector above the pedal area.
Any thoughts?

@Stangra is right. You gotta use FORScan to sync everything together. Whichever parts did not come with the pallet need to be setup on the pallet's PCM. Before you start, make sure you have your two keys that fit the ignition and that they have unique transponders.

Here's a video that shows how to do it. In this video, the guy is doing a '13-14 cluster swap onto a '11-12 car, but the procedure will be the same. There may be more depending on what other modules you need to add.

When you're done, you should check the other modules on the car against the AsBuilt configuration for the VIN of a car that matches the setup you're using. If you have the VIN of your donor, that should do it (assuming it has the same trim level). If not, I'd just go onto Copart and look for a car that matches your build, and use it's VIN to get the codes. If I understand right, your donor was a manual, so hopefully you won't need to flash the PCM right away. But if/when you need to flash it, if you don't have the VIN, you can use the VIN you grab from Copart (or somewhere like that) to program your PCM as well.

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[BackInBlack]

Here's the picture of the previous set of plugs. As you can see, the 3rd one from the left has crap all over internal insulator. (I don't know what order the plugs are in.)

This has me thinking rocker arms, valve seals, piston rings, or just the cylinder scoring... Whatever it is, it seems to be affecting some cylinders more than others, which fits with what I've found so far. I'll check out the body harness connector next weekend but I don't expect to find anything.

Gonna stew on this for a while and come up with a new game plan. Got some other minor things to fix in the meantime.