the $20 it costs to have someone else do it is so worth it. major stuff's expensive, so i usually do that at home.
Maybe in your neck of the woods, but the 500 mile round trip would kill a lot of the savings... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Plus when I pick up synthetic oil on sale, I can do an oil change in my truck for less than what those joints charge for regular oil.
Funny and sad, but the front bearing and axles on my truck caused less headaches than this oil change! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
I dunno what you guys do, but we put magnets on the end of our oil drain plugs. That way any loose metal particles will get stuck to it and can be removed when changing the oil. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Stock one had it, OEM replacement doesn't. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
Going to see about removing it from the old one and epoxying it to the new one though. Although once things are broken in, you sure hope you won't see much on there! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />