Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
looks like the alu heat shield between the box and the spare tyre well has been removed is that wise?
When i took the engine out of my 1994 2.5 V6 it took most of a day to get the engine out. If a good replacement engine had been available then it would have been in that day and all plugged in and ready to drive after a second day.
Messing around swapping ECUs, locks, immobilisers, seats and other stuff will take a lot longer than an engine swap..........
There were some differences in the pulley layout and eventually the lower adjustable pulley was replaced by a fixed one on the later 3.2s and 2.6s.
The differences are all taken up in changes to the ali mounting casting that holds the upper idler and tensioner pulleys, and the bottom idler pulley which may or may not be adjustable so you can fit any kit to any V6 provided:
You re-use your existing ali casting if the one in the kit is not the same.
You accept that you might end up with an adjustable lower pulley when you didn't have one before.
If looking for a 3.2 kit, it's certainly worth buying an earlier kit instead, as they are significantly cheaper.
Apologies I read your post that you had stripped everything from underneath
Strip the front cover off and try again...
So you checked the mesh in the end of the pickup pipe?
You say you checked the sump, did you also check he oil pickup?
