I bought a couple of cars recently. I bought a immaculately clean but wrecked (airbag blew) on the front right 93 940t for $200. It still holds fluids and runs and drives great if you don't mind looking over a wadded up airbag and having one headlight. It makes really good power and it abnormally clean despite having 220k miles on it. The owners manual shows strict adherence to maint. schedules and everything was done at the same dealership. Great car, but sadly it's frame is bent and it's beyond repair.

I then bought a far less clean and attractive 94 940t wagon with 170k miles for $500. It has a bad transmission and drive is out but it runs and goes in reverse. It also has a serious oil leak that appears to be coming from the rear main seal.

My original plan was to just swap the transmission from the wrecked car to the wagon, but I don't have a transmission jack. I do however have an engine hoist so from a safety standpoint it would probably be better just to pull the whole engine/trans combo. I know the engine/trans in the wrecked car is strong, and it doesn't leak oil like the one in the wagon so I'm thinking that's more reason to swap the combo rather than just the trans. Whichever engine I don't use will eventually find its way into my 240. I bought the wrecked car to serve as a donor to turbo the 240.

If I did just the tranny swap I would also need to do a rear main seal on the wagon. So I was hoping someone here could give me some good advice. Which is more work? Which would you do?

Thanks