No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
 

My friend's 3.2 915 trans car was 'leaky'. I offered to reseal it if he pulled it out. Spend a day or three and give him a clean engine to put back in. In theory.

Trans was leaking, main rear seal, valve covers, oil cooler, etc, etc. How bad can it be?

It was going great until I found two broken head studs. Now I'm doing a full rebuild.

FML. :( He's not getting this back any time soon.

I should have expected this, but it just had a 'full PPI' and the head studs were not mentioned.

Yea, that is often how it goes. Back in my single days, a girlfriend had a toilet that kept running, so I went with her to get a new flush valve, and I offered to install it. While working on that I noticed the toilet was leaking at the base, so we went back to get a new seal and new bolts. I got the toilet removed, and it was obvious the seal had been leaking a while as the floor and subfloor was rotted out on her stem wall house. Soon I was under the house and crawling on my belly to inspect from below.

She needed a new subfloor, and of course a floor, and new toilet connections to the sewer. I spent over a week doing it all. Her house was a one bathroom house, so she had to live at my place for week. Never again did I offer to fix a girlfriends household problems.

could be worse, you could be crawling around under a car in the snow

Son and I spent 18 hours trying to undo one bolt to pull the trans on my '93 Ranger rustbucket, ended up having a retired pro do it and the work we were gonna do (new clutch, etc) ... best $250 i've ever spent.