I fucking hate drive on lifts. Thats all Land Rover Glen Cove has. It really sucks coming from a shop where I had a minimum of three two post lifts to myself and now only have one drive on rack. fortunately our manager is working on getting some two posters for us.
The problem with the book time on that job is that it does not account for the fact that the new heater core has the heater pipes made onto it. From the factory, the pipes are removable. You can actually crimp the old pipes onto the new heater core pretty easily. I haven't done it, but I've seen that done a few times and no one has had one leak.
People up here have so much money, its ridiculous. The real housewives of Long Island...
I honestly thought about uncrimping the pipes...but didn't want to risk crimping that aluminum again. I actually did that on the old heater core just to see how hard it would be, uncrimping was easy, but trying to get needle nose pliers, angled needle nose pliers, etc on those flanges once the core was installed was tricky.
Then knowing my luck even if I did get them crimped the aluminum would be fatigued so after a couple heat cycles the thing would start leaking!
The bitch of it was the new core's pipes weren't even bent properly so even if I did pull the heater box I would have been fighting to get everything back in proper.
I remember discostew asking about back flushing these a while back. Now I know why the old Volkswagen lemon juice, water hose, wet/dry vac trick would never work. The heater core is half the size of a Volkswagen core.