Mechanics Question?

[Topless]

A repair techs worst nightmare is the guy who sources his own parts on eBay and wants you to install them for free. They might be the wrong parts, an incomplete kit, or just of a quality the tech would never use on a good customers car. I am not saying this is you, but your tech has probably seen this scenario many times and it usually goes badly. He will be uncomfortable doing this unless he is confident tha parts are complete and everything will go well. Most techs will charge more to do this due to all the unknown unknowns that might bite him later.

While the gears are out, have them do the ims retrofit, check the clutch and flywheel for viability, and pay him for his valuable time and expertise. This is how he feeds his family.

[CoBeerToad]

I'm also uncomfortable doing this although I have done it in the past.
If you give a tech your part to install, and something related to that part or the part itself fails, the shop loses liability.

I bought all new suspension with the intention of doing it myself, then decided I didn't have the the time, space or the tools to do this right so I brought it to a shop. They installed everything and the alignment was a bit off so they fixed that right away and I was home free.
100 miles later and the car was pulling again. Brought it back to the shop and they couldn't align it and told me the control arms were worn out so I parked it having exhausted that years budget already. I didn't buy cheap parts so I know the shop screwed up, but what could I do except start arguing which would probably not get me anywhere.
Next year, I moved and brought it to a new shop. They told me a couple bolts weren't tightened to spec and I was all fixed up for the cost of an alignment. Lesson learned.

[bwdz]

Originally Posted by Topless

A repair techs worst nightmare is the guy who sources his own parts on eBay and wants you to install them for free. They might be the wrong parts, an incomplete kit, or just of a quality the tech would never use on a good customers car. I am not saying this is you, but your tech has probably seen this scenario many times and it usually goes badly. He will be uncomfortable doing this unless he is confident tha parts are complete and everything will go well. Most techs will charge more to do this due to all the unknown unknowns that might bite him later.

While the gears are out, have them do the ims retrofit, check the clutch and flywheel for viability, and pay him for his valuable time and expertise. This is how he feeds his family.

I stop by a friend's shop on my way home from work regularly, he runs into this problem regularly. I was there last week and a customer had a 2000 Jeep Cherokee for a cracked exhaust manifold. The customer provided an Ebay stainless replacement that they wanted put on. It fit until you tried to put the intake back on as they are on the same side on the inline 6 and share some of the same mounting bolts. He had the intake on and off 3 times and had to shave it in a couple spots to fit over the new header tubes. Customer was furious with him and he only charged an extra half hour even though he had 2-3 into it. Shops hate customers who supply their own parts and incomplete at that most of the time.