From: arlen_holder@newmachines.com   
      
   On Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:25:08 +1100, Xeno wrote:   
      
   > I wouldn't have thought it a difficult task at all. If you are careful   
   > and methodical you won't even need to do a wheel alignment afterwards.   
      
   Hi Xeno,   
      
   Merry Christmas!   
      
   Thank you for always being purposefully helpful.   
   o You're a dream come true as you are, like me, a good person indeed.   
      
   I've never owned a FWD vehicle in my life, so I don't really know how to   
   work on them, but they sure look pretty jam packed in there down below.   
      
   I've done clutches on SUVs and cooling systems on almost anything, and   
   starter motors and BMW CCV valves (which was the hardest of all, given it's   
   _under_ the bimmer engine), etc.   
      
   For the drive train, long ago, when I was a kid, I did a drive shaft   
   U-joint on a Chrysler (my Dad was a Chrysler man), and the pitman arm,   
   idler arm, ball joints, and tie rod ends on a Dodge Dart (that's when I   
   learned that alignment shops charge you for an alignment and they don't do   
   a single thing - they lie and cheat and steal left and right).   
      
   When I was a kid, I did the motor mounts on that Dodge Dart (where I   
   learned that AAMCO lied and cheated and stole from people left and right   
   because they insisted I needed a new transmission and they put OLD OIL back   
   when I told them I didn't have the money and as it turned out, they lied).   
      
   A decade or so ago I did the struts on a Toyota SUV (the compression was no   
   more dangerous than when I did wound my garage door torsion springs)...   
      
   But... but... but...   
   1. I've never worked on a FWD car in my life, and,   
   2. It's not my car   
   3. So there are all sorts of pitfalls when working on someone else's car   
      
   Mostly people blame you for everything that goes wrong.   
   o I've learned this the hard way.   
      
   So unless it's changing the oil or brakes (where nothing really goes   
   wrong), I'm worried about putting a new boot on this 2005 Camry LE.   
      
   I just don't have the experience or knowledge of how to do it without   
   hiccups, I think, but I don't really know what it entails.   
      
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