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Luckily, I have been slowly following Daves lead on stocking parts. It is now pretty plain that stocking parts for an obsolete engine isn't being done at the retail level. I have everything I need but I thought it would be beneficial to see if I could get replacements immediately. I was looking for an oil pan gasket, a water pump, timing chain and gasket set, cam sensor and magnet, plus an O2 sensor. The only thing readily available was the O2 sensor. I tried O'Reilly, Napa and Advance/CARQUEST which are with 1/2 mile of each other. I finally went to a small local place that I frequented for decades and used to have a machine shop too. I think it is a Parts Plus store or something like that and they had a pan gasket, a Rol brand, which I have not used before. I guess I will be forced to mail order everything? Ironically, a delivery guy brought a large Rock Auto box in while I was at Advance. The counter guy noticed that I noticed and said: we are a UPS drop off site now. The guy that brought the box in wasn't wearing a brown uniform ? Time wasted but I did get back mid afternoon. I decided to install a small aluminum 4-pass cooler for the power steering rather than disable the donor car, which despite the stripping of parts, mostly interior, it will still run and drive. I never got the one screw out of the ICM and it finally broke off so it is back together with five fasteners to the coil pack. I swapped a couple of the firewall relays with the donor car which has all three relays with good cases that hold on the rack under the hood. A small thing, but it tidies things up. I let it idle until warm but no closed loop. O2 is dead, but doesn't register a code but the cam sensor 041 is current and history. Hoping that the 041 is why check engine and electrical problem are displayed. The red brake light stays on so will need to investigate that. I noted the power steering cooler did get warm just sitting at idle with wheels straight ahead. Grandson coming over tonight to do some shampooing?