I concur with most of the sentiments written here, but I want to add some things that may not have been considered.
Most everybody that writes here has an IQ over 80 and seems to be literate. (That puts you right with anybody you might pay to do the work.) When you consider that any shop work is going to be billed at 120~150$us/hr. That means that you can:
A - Buy all the manuals for everything you can think of.
B - Buy any tools that the job requires.
C - Buy replacement parts online without the dealer markup.
And
- If it doesn't go well, you won't have to pay to have it repaired again.
- If the fault does reoccur, you will now understand what it is and may be able to effect a repair quickly.
Our current rig is 45 years old, and gone some 170+K miles. I do work on it, but not excessively. It is currently put away because I live in Michigan and they spread "fender solvent" all over the roads. In the spring, the first trip will be to a rally with several hundred others from the same plant. I carry a small collection of tools and very few spares.
You can all do this.
Matt
