Usually someone else's misfortunes always makes mine seem less. So here's my story...
Last Friday I came back from school to a box of fresh new parts from Liberty (water pump, timing belt, seals). Came home from work Saturday and began the surgery. Everything up to the cam sprocket removal goes well, except for the dent we put in the radiator fins. In the end we sheer an extension, snap a strap wrench, and crack a socket in an attempt to remove the sprocket. We end up changing the water pump without removing the back timing belt cover (add about 3 hours of labor). I left for school. Come back yesterday and go back to work on the car. This time we end up bending the lip
of the cam sprocket. Had to use a mallet and pliers to bend the lip back and I'm praying its good enough (it's now bent at about a 85 degree angle for about 2 in of the circumference). This is the point in time I said "**** IT!" and started to reassemble. Got the timing belt on last night, didn't really work on it at all today. Tomorrow I need to put the two side covers back on, as well as the radiator and alternator, refill all the fluids, and will hopefully have time for an oil change before going back to school. Atleast the water pump is changed, but the seals aren't getting done
