I don't think I've ever let anything whip me. I've had transmissions that would burn up a clutch pack out of the blue for seemingly no reason, engines that refused to have issues corrected, even after having "experts" do their magic, brakes that refused to work, you name it. If it turned out to be unfixable, a casting flaw, a design mistake, a machining error, I may have had to scrap something, but I knew why. PITA and frustrating at times? Yes, but I couldn't let it beat me and I always learned something, sometimes many things in the process. It's never wasted effort. Knowing what doesn't work is sometimes more important than knowing what does.

I would have liked to get my hands in that transmission.