Any one else get one thing right and another go wrong?

I got every thing finally right with my mav the other day. well now the distributor is going bad.... Its advancing like crazy on the mechanical advance. ive changed springs and weights nothing. time to suck it up and get a mallory billet. i also crushed my radiator cap...

 

Don't crush your radiator cap!
At least those are cheap. Yes this has happened to me. I finally get it to charge and it over heats. I install a shroud and then a vacuum hose dies so I start taking the engine apart looking for the trouble(like an idiot). Now I have to get it all back together to go to what might be a job tomorrow and it's raining.

 

THis always happens to me but my car is a ford so im safe.

 

Having 4 or 5 things go wrong for every 1 thing that goes right is pretty much normal for me.

 

man it sucks. its like my car hates me. but i guess i'd be pretty scared to drive it if something wasnt wrong with it. i fear the day its all fixed:16suspect

 

I dont know that it will ever be fixed... the only way my car will be fixed is to buy a brand new 347 engine out of the summet catalog and call it quits

 

That's the story of my life! Murphy and those stupid laws of his are constantly at play around my house...

The best thing I can tell you is when things like that happen, put down the tools, walk away for a while to calm down, and come back only after you don't feel like breaking or burning what you are working on.

Also, always remember that a thrown wrench, hammer, etc. will either need to be chased down, will hit and break or ricochet into and break something expensive, or scratch something expensive to fix.

-Scott H.

 

I spent 4 years getting my mav ready, then when i finally got to drive it The engine broke cause of a split piston....i almost sold the car the next day.

 

lol happened tome sunday got my stereo wired in and then realzied i didnt have the attenna adapter no biggy but the the now the stereo seems to have short from sitting in a convertiable to long

but it works most the time and my mav has am fm mp3 cd and dvd capabilites now lol

 

I just reinstalled the PS pump, brackets, fan belts, pulley spacer and fan, shroud, radiator, trans lines etc. Awesome.

Now I get to wrestle with the lower radiator hose...not so awesome.

 

I got the charging problem fixed and now something is rubbing on the flexplate

 

Well what do expect from cars as old as ours are.....I'm old and broke down now from doing a complete brake job, rebuilding the carb, bleeding the brakes changing the tires...and still need to put on an exhaust manifold gasket in addition to getting death threats from the wife cuz I spend more time with the car then I do with her just so I can drive it more than a few hundred yards, all in this week plus working my other 2 jobs to support my car fixins!
Soooooooooo

 

yeah but the headache is well worth the end result

 

Only thing I've done recently to mine is put a new float in the carb. Hard to complain, the carb did lay in the woods for 25-30+ years. I've put 1,300 miles on the car in the past 9 days.

 

man you defianetly need to drive that thing more. i drive mine all the time. thats what i built it for. even if somethin is always goin wrong