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Re: Reality Check,

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Reality Check,
From: scott suhring <suhring@lancnews.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 07:43:26 -0700
Organization: InfiNet
References: <97B9833301D641D9@davinci.symbol.com> <338536DE.1E53@lancnews.infi.net>
Not sure if this got sent. Sorry to the list if it is repeat.
> 
> DUHART JOHN wrote:
> >
> > Hey Scott,
> >
> >         What sections of your frame did he cut out?
> >
> >         What was his hourly rate? My guy is $60 per hour.
> >
> >         Did you frame get sand blasted and painted?
> >
> >         How many hours did each individual job take?
> >
> >         I'm trying to determine if the guy I'm using is doing this job in 
>pretty
> > much standard times.
> >
> > Later,
> > JHD IV
> 
> John:
> 
> Here's the breakdown in my own words:
> 
> 1.      Cut out front upper control arm mounts & weld new
>         plates & well nuts.
> 2.      Cut out frame to upper control arm supports, fabricate
>         new & weld.
> 3.      Remove fuel & brake lines, fabricate plates & weld to
>         inside of outer frame rails (front to middle section of car)
> 4.      Remove rear cross member support plate, repair underlying
>         frame area, reweld section back in with extra support.
> 5.      Remove rear lower control arms, cut out, level, & reweld
>         rear frame mounting section.
> 6.      Cut out frame rail sections, fabricate plates & reweld in.
> 7.      Remove & replace rear suspension tower crossmember.
> 
> The frame was not sandblasted but was striped back to bare metal
> using a power wire brush.
> 
> Total labor was 40 hours at $32 per hour.

  Mount Joy Auto Works
  344 West Main Street
  Mount Joy, PA 17522
  717-653-8870
  Toni Corrado
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Scott Suhring
> Elizabethtown, PA
> '70 TR6

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