[quote=svelte]Oy. Thanks for the post and especially the pics.

It is bringing why I quit working on my own cars flooding back to my brain. Things like this happened to me too.

It often ended up costing me more to do it myself – especially factoring in my time and tools I had to buy.[/quote]

Yeah I think i am starting to learn this the hard way myself… My original thought process was book value was almost = to price to get someone to do this… Hence why I was thinking to do it myself. Now, I am thinking what I should have done is gone with the #2 “drive car until belt snaps and engine blows up, then junk car” approach…. I guess that’s still a possibility, since I doubt the two stripped bolts are going to fall off 🙂