well said beech, there a lot of small shops that will take care of ya till ya learn to do it right

 

Well how it works is called book time, there this BIG *** book that says this job will take this amount of time, period, so thats what the change you at, if the tech can get it done quicker, he still gets paid the XX amunt of hours on that job, and can start another, so its reality, say a top end is 6 on the books, and he gets it done in 4, he's still getting paid for the last 2 hours while starting another job. So you can get like 60 hours of work out in a 40 hour week, thats the only way to make money as a tech, by being fast. But say he gets into a jam and it takes him 8 hours to do it, he only gets paid for the 6, so he just lost money, its a F*^%ED up system, but thats how it works.

 

If you figure 6 hours chances are thats 6 hours to pull the motor from the bike, disassemble it, repair it, assemble it, install it, then fire it.

you may not have to pull the motor sometimes, but if you are redoing the top end you might as well check everything in the bottom end as well.