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Must be the fancy gloves!
-- Dana Port Kent, NY 2002 Saturn LW300 93 Jeep YJ 90 Jeep XJ Ltd. --------------- 95 Grand Cherokee Ltd. 91 Grand Wagoneer Ltd. 82 Cherokee 4dr 76 Cherokee 2dr "L.W. ("ßill") Hughes III" > wrote in message ... > Hi Dana, > You need to visit the pit area of a drag race meat, they rebuild a > seven thousand horsepower engine less to time then you're giving Dick: > http://www.nhra.com/ > Ninety percent of the engines I've worked on have always need at > least the spark plug ratchet: http://www.billhughes.com/sparksocket.jpg > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O > > > Dana Rohleder wrote: >> >> Let's see: >> >> Check gap - 1min >> Pull old plug - 5 min >> Install new plug - 4 min >> >> Total 10 min/plug avg. X 8 plugs = 80 min. Labor rate in my parts >> $50-70/hr, >> so $60 bucks for labor sounds reasonable to me. >> >> I doubt you will be able to do the job yourself in under an hour on an I6 >> let alone the V8 if you haven't done it in 40 years. And that is without >> losing 20 minutes trying to find the damn spark plug wrench that should >> be >> right there in the tool box that your neighbor "borrowed" 2 years ago, >> dropping any wrenches or plugs into god-awful places where the sun never >> shines such as skid pans or those "metal sleeves" you mention, no >> beer/butt >> breaks, no time lost trying to locate the aft plugs or removing shrouds >> and >> chunks of engine that don't even look familiar because they weren't >> around >> 40 years ago, and no breaks to stop for bleeding/first aid. I can't even >> change a fuse any more without 2 days of back pain! >> -- >> Dana >> Port Kent, NY >> >> 2002 Saturn LW300 >> 93 Jeep YJ >> 90 Jeep XJ Ltd. >> --------------- >> 95 Grand Cherokee Ltd. >> 91 Grand Wagoneer Ltd. >> 82 Cherokee 4dr >> 76 Cherokee 2dr |
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