Frustration 401 Engine/Tranny

[DougF]

I've spent the past 9 plus hours dealing with a broken head/manifold stud, broken easy out, broken clutch fork pin, and what now feels like a broken back.
How many of you have gotten to the point where you don't want to sell your car, but giving it away would be a viable option?
My TR6 has given me more problems in the past year than I could begin to submit. I'm not looking for any assistance.
What I am looking for are some tales that will assure me that I am not alone.
Once the Six is finished, I have to get back to painting my TR3. And of course, the Austin Healey restoration falls next in line.
I didn't mention today's other follies like a shifter cap that locked up; replacement fork pin that would not thread in; and of course remembering too late that the release bearing goes on before the pin is safety wired. The tranny(with OD=heavy) went together twice to the engine. I had planned to easily have the car running by this evening, but the engine isn't even ready to drop in yet. Sometimes I would like to strangle Mr. Murphy!
And to think, I could have been watching the Oscars.

 

[vettedog72]

Keep at it; watching the Oscars is much worse /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

When things go like you described, it makes me glad I don't do it for a living.

OK, I'll tell you one even though your complications seem to be fate rather than your own doing/errors (except the safety wire /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif). Pretty simple, the batt had been removed from the TR6 for some extended period of time because of a thousand reasons that kept me from driving it. So, I finally found time to drive the thing over to get some new snaps installed for the top/hood. With a new batt, brand new from PEP Boys, I quickly install the thing and get back in the drivers seat to crank the engine. Gosh, what's that smell? Oh S..., there is some smoke coming from the alternator. Final analysis, I hooked the batt up backwards because the cable terminals were old and warn enough to allow the neg terminal on the positive post. That's my intro into Bosch parts on my Triumph; has not been the same since.