JayDoc
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I finally brought home my fj60 and I'll put up a thread on the good things about it elsewhere but I had a question for you folks that have been around regarding the cost.
The short of it is, the mechanic charged me $100 per hour for 100 hours of work. The $100 per hour seems fair but I'm dubious on the 100 hours of work. That's where I was hoping others had some perspective.
Work done included removing an engine from a donor, removing the 2f from the fj60, and putting in the chevy LT.
Mating the chevy engine to the toyota transmission via a advanced adapter adapter.
Fitting the stock AC to work with GM parts.
Installing a GM radiator.
New exhaust pipes.
Replaced rear drum brakes.
I provided the donor engine and the AA adapter.
I've read that replacing an engine can take 8-15 hours for a good mechanic. I'm having a hard time imagining all the rest of that adding up to 100 hours.
I kinda feel like he's trying to take advantage of me. He has had the truck for well over a year - almost 2. I've had to pester him to get keep him working on it, even running down parts for him and for the past several months I've been asking for an estimate of the cost and he kept deferring saying he needed to look into it.
This is a strange situation where I had a friend who was going to put the engine in for me but he gave up on it and sent it to this guy so I didn't get to choose the mechanic or negotiate ahead of time because in the mean time I moved 6 hours away.
yada, yada, yada - do you think 100 hours is reasonable for the work above?
Thanks
The short of it is, the mechanic charged me $100 per hour for 100 hours of work. The $100 per hour seems fair but I'm dubious on the 100 hours of work. That's where I was hoping others had some perspective.
Work done included removing an engine from a donor, removing the 2f from the fj60, and putting in the chevy LT.
Mating the chevy engine to the toyota transmission via a advanced adapter adapter.
Fitting the stock AC to work with GM parts.
Installing a GM radiator.
New exhaust pipes.
Replaced rear drum brakes.
I provided the donor engine and the AA adapter.
I've read that replacing an engine can take 8-15 hours for a good mechanic. I'm having a hard time imagining all the rest of that adding up to 100 hours.
I kinda feel like he's trying to take advantage of me. He has had the truck for well over a year - almost 2. I've had to pester him to get keep him working on it, even running down parts for him and for the past several months I've been asking for an estimate of the cost and he kept deferring saying he needed to look into it.
This is a strange situation where I had a friend who was going to put the engine in for me but he gave up on it and sent it to this guy so I didn't get to choose the mechanic or negotiate ahead of time because in the mean time I moved 6 hours away.
yada, yada, yada - do you think 100 hours is reasonable for the work above?
Thanks