[hewittca]

I feel your pain. I was on my way to get my bed painted when the transmission went out. After pulling the trans, I figured I might as well replace the leaking rear main seal and oil pan gasket. After pulling those, I realized my nylon timing gear was broken into a hundred pieces and clogging up the oil pump. After pulling the timing cover I realized my balancer was scored badly. I think I finally found the bottom of the hole and am in the process of getting everything back together... It's all stuff that needed to get done but man is it a bummer when you get derailed like that.