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Did the home mechanic thing. On the 302 in the pinto, could yank and reinstall the engine in about 4 hours, ditto for the clutch in the dodge van. Converted the ranger to electric over a summer weekend using rafter truss for the come along engine hoist... helping my son shove a late model engine into his toyota when he comes to stuff he cant do or figure out.
The golf takes $200 worth of special tools, and about 4hours labor to pull all the stupid plastic parts if you've done it couple of times and my wife has to place a couple of parts because my hands don't literally fit while holding the wrench. Iirc the labor rate was $345 hr and they did the yearly maintenance stuff,too.
Tis why I saved every spare penny for the last 50 years so I don't need to do annoying crap in the cold while I am 70.
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casual notes from the underground:There are some "experts" out there that in reality don't have a clue as to what they are doing.
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