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Engine full of fuel and seized up
Trigger:
It is all down to workshop overheads. I used to turn the key in the workshop door on a Monday morning knowing that i would have to find £3,200 by the end of the week to pay staff, rent, rates, electric, phone bills, insurance, heating, water rates and many, many other bills and, that was back in the 90's. Would not even like to work out what it would cost to run a workshop with staff today .
Bryanj:
There used to be FRT times in the parts books, i seem to remember a 550 crank swop was 8.5 hours
royhall:
Your probably right. At something like £70 an hour that gives you around 9 hours to do the job. That's not an unreasonable amount of time for getting the engine out of a 750 and packing all the bits away safely. Just sounds like more than anyone would consider worth spending. You would really need to have no mechanical ability whatsoever to pay out £1330 just to get an engine in and out. After all that's the easy bit as it's just nuts and bolts, Triggers then going to do the hard bit with the rebuild. It would total more than the bikes worth surely.
Bryanj:
Just nuts, bolts and a hernia plus 2 boxes of elastoplast
royhall:
Forgot about that Bryan, the charge for the physiotherapy.
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