the shop prices in my town suck

[ATC350X 85]

Do it your self, just have them do whatever they have to do to the cylinder to fix it, there probly gonna have to sleeve it depending on how bad its shot or your gonna need a cylinder. As for the bottom end, get a manual, thats the only way to fix a bottom end.

Justin

[excelblder]

i took my 350x to the shop to look at it today he said 500 for parts and about 10 hours labor at 65 hr
piston shot
jug is cracked
new camchain
lower rod berring
and crankshaft
that seems like alot of money is it

[wanta250r]

evil It cost me 260 dollars for a tune up at my town shop. evil

[YamaChuck]

Honda parts are traditionally very expensive. $500 for replacing those parts is a very fair price. That $65hr/labor is a bit extreme though.

[mike from long island]

the honda shop here charges $75 an hour computed that means they get paid for a given time. so if they finish before that time they still charge for the entire time talk about cheating hmm???

[200xer]

I guess I won't complain about ours being $48/hour.

[TimSr]

Mike, that book time works two ways. Would you want to pay double because they had the dumb guy work on it? In my opinion, book time is the fairest way to charge. Many techs get paid a commission on hours of billable labor they turn out. Its incentive for the good techs to be able to make more money by completing a job in a timely manner, while at the same time, protecting the customer from having to pay for somebody's learning curve, incompetance, or just plain screwing around. If the best tech in the house completes your 2 book-hour job in one hour, I wouldnt recommend requesting the other guy who takes 3 hours for the same job thinking your getting a bargain that way. And $65 or $75 is reasonable. Usually they are about the same or slightly higher than auto rates. $48 is VERY low!

[Dan Tenn]

If you buy a shop manual, all you have to pay for is machine work, and with the manual, you can charge yourself $100 per hour for the labor and never pay yourself. You will get to learn something during the process also. The only way to restore these things cost effectively is to do the labor yourself. By the way its very rewarding to finish a job by yourself.

[HondaRider]

For around here in Kansas $65-$75 an hr is kinda expensive. In my are anyways. All the shops in Wichita,. North of us aobut an hr. charge around $50-$60 I think. The shop I work for he only charges $45 an hr. which is pretty cheap. This guy really wants to help his customers out, gives good deals on parts, and doesn't mark up his prices as much as most other shops do. He's only been open for about a year, and he already has people traveling down from wichita so they can deal with him. Times are tight sometimes, but I think he'll be alright in the end.

[200x Basket]

buy a manual and look at this. it is a 250r but i made step by step pics and showed how to do the bottom end. you will have to be a member of .org to see the step by step pics.
chris

http://www.3wheeler.org/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6218

[mike from long island]

dont get me wrong it is just when i bought a brand new warrior back in 97, and had tons of trouble the money it cost me was unbelievalbe!!! all because they said i should have done it all before the warrenty was up. i didnt even know i had a warrior. call it dump young stupidity but i lost all respect for them. now the guy had screwed me again too. 7 months to fix my motor when i blew the top end. myself and all my friend just think it was a bad luck quad. two people got seriously hurt. but after he fixed it again a month or two later it made noise. so i took it back. three weeks i waited until i said i am coming to get it did i find out all the work they did had to be done again. i had to but a 99 engine from east coast atv and sawed almost $1000 so my bad luck doesnt mean their prices are wrong it just a ton of money for someone who just paided $5000 for a machine. but i have grown and worked on them and do most work myself. i will got to another shop for parts just to keep the buisness local. but i do get prices elsewhere to make sure they dont retire on me lol so this is why i am the way i am i guess talk to ya later mike