He tossed the manual back on the pile. "Now go draw that diagram yourself. It'll teach you more than any picture."
He slid his finger up a set of vertical lines: . Chevy 3 1 Liter V6 Engine Diagram
He circled a lump in the diagram. "See that? The distributor. But by late '90s, it's got a cam position sensor underneath. No rotor. Kids today don't know the joy of setting timing by ear." He tossed the manual back on the pile
"This is your rotating assembly. Cast-iron crank, six pistons—three on each bank. Odd-fire? Nope. Even-fire 90-degree V6, so it shakes a little less than the old 2.8L." He circled a lump in the diagram
Now up to the cylinder heads. "The pushrods—long ones on the intake side, shorter on exhaust—run from the camshaft inside the block (yes, it's a cam-in-block, old-school) up to the rocker arms. Those rockers open the valves."