I was lucky that my friend back home was a VW mechanic, all I had to do was provide beer and be his tool fetcher when we changed mine. Please post back if you find a good one though, I too will need a good mechanic
Normally, this would have been a task my a friend and I would have attempted back in the bay area.
Unfortunately, I'm short mechanically inclined friends down here 🙂 And attempting this with one person would be a challenge. Although if I can't find a satisfactory mechanic, I might as well go buy an air compressor and some air ratchets and bite the bullet.