Thread: help me not get ripped off

big h, i would rather not say on a public forum. i sure don't want to cause some bad publicity for anyone out there making a living. just want to get the best bang for my bucks....

You might check your parts prices at Napa just to see what they would cost, belts,plugs,tranny filter and about 8 qts of tranny fluid. Add 40% to that number and your pretty close to what he is charging for parts. Having never worked on one I'm figuring he's about 450 to 550 high. Did he quote you a shop labor rate? When they clean injectors they hook a hose to a fitting on fuel rail attach a can of cleaner and let her run. Haven't priced that cleaner in a long time.

Have you ever changed the belts?
First thing I would do is go to auto zone and get me a can of SeaFoam or a bottle of Lucas fuel addative/ injector cleaner and run it through the engine and see if the hesitation goes away.

Originally Posted by windstone

big h, i would rather not say on a public forum. i sure don't want to cause some bad publicity for anyone out there making a living. just want to get the best bang for my bucks....

Well pm me so i know not to use them.

i put a rebuild motor in my toyota truck for 1300 bucks so i would say a tune up for 1500 bucks is out of this world

Pm returned and thanks

thanks, guys, for all the good advice. gonna get on it in the morning. my daughter is going to jackson ms with her daughter in it for some type of cheer competition saturday and i just want it to be road worthy....

Get a couple of bottles of injector cleaner into the gas tank. I get mine at Dollar Tree, 2 bottles every 6 months.

I'd put some sea foam or injector cleaner in it first and drive a whole tank through it, and try to do it quickly. If that didn't do the trick, I'd throw a set of plugs and wires in it along with an air filter