Yea you got that right! I have always said that tools should not be sold to the public I bet I get 1 or 2 folks in my shop a week that tryed to fix your omn cars only to find out they got in over their head and bring it to me and then I make them pay dearly for it,when they pick up thecar I tell them they have to give up their tools and repair books!
I have had to be rescued by a pro a time or two, true. One was a $40 brake bleeding of all things, but on that job alone, I saved over $500, that's what the Chevy dealer quoted me to fabricate a long front/rear brake line from raw tubing and install it. Cost $40 for the tool and I think $10 for the tubing. And about 3 hours of my time to teach myself how to double flare. But set against the well over $10,000 I have saved over say the last 10 years, I'm okay. Differential changes, transmission swaps, brake system rework, turbo kit installations, suspension work, the key, as bob says, is in the time.
Book says the main wire harness on a 2003 Dodge SRT-4 requires I think 4-5 hours, remove and replace the intake manifold to access the connection to a few things. Took about an hour by not removing that. Took more skill than the average mechanic, but that's okay.
