Average price for a full exhaust install???

[Toyarzee]

Originally Posted by mav1178

Time is money. Knowledge is money.

Also very true

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Impureclient

It's $89.99 on their site, Item#62160. The same 1.5 ton one I have in my garage.

On the previous page you said "low profile." That's not one of their low profile jacks. The smallest low profile is a 2 ton.

Not that it won't work. But then he has a jack in his kitchen that he'll use again sometime in 2019.

Originally Posted by cdq85

there's a special wrench that you can get at hobo freight for like 7 bucks to get o2 sensors out.

The only reason it's "special" is that it has a slot in it to get past the wire. A 7/8" flare wrench serves the same purpose, but I usually just use an open-end wrench. Those sockets are really a solution looking for a problem.

[Impureclient]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

On the previous page you said "low profile." That's not one of their low profile jacks. The smallest low profile is a 2 ton.

I just measured it. It's 3" off the ground. That's pretty low profile even if it doesn't say it in the description.
I feel like I'm a floor jack salesman here and you're giving me a hard time selling this thing. If you take it today, I'll throw in the undercoating even though my manager said not to.

[joe strummer]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

Hit them in PB Blaster once a day for three days prior to trying to get them out. If they don't come out easy, apply heat with a pencil torch.

Good ideas. Another option is oil of wintergreen. Used when breaking steam system fasteners on Navy vessels. Plus, it smells like Life Savers.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/26958712?w...700071&veh=sem

[Th3rdSun]

Originally Posted by D88

It's not always that simple. As has been said already, if he lives in an apartment where he can't work on his car, then having the tools doesn't help. The alternative is maybe you have a friend who has the space to let you do it but that's not a guarantee.

There's also the issue if this is your only vehicle. I'm personally not one to want to take the risk of possibly disabling my own car. Better to have it at a shop if something goes wrong.

I also learned the hard way that sometimes it's just way easier to pay someone to do it. I tried to remove my muffler and it was so rusted and seized, I couldn't get it off with the tools I had. I ended up stripping a bolt and said fuck it and took it to a shop. Cost me $50 and I wished I had just done that from the start.

If you have the money to buy a full exhaust in one go, then you can probably afford the couple hundred it costs to have someone else install it. There's no shame in that.

What this guy said.

I'm at a point now that I'm tired of working on my own cars,plus the fact that I don't have the space to work on it anyway.

Time,space,tools,and the internet is really all you need to work on your own vehicle,but if you don't have ANY of those four,you are better off paying someone else to do it for you.

I will say though,it's is a good thing to have knowledge/experience of working on cars,that way when you do take it to a shop,you can call bullshit when they try to overcharge you.