Must be the fancy gloves!

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Dana
Port Kent, NY

2002 Saturn LW300
93 Jeep YJ
90 Jeep XJ Ltd.
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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