Quote Originally Posted by Seano View Post
The hassle, jets, is that it'd just be too long off the road if I did this stuff myself and too expensive to tool up for more of the specialised stuff.

I have done most of my vehicle servicing to date myself....and I still do most of the interim servicing. But I simply don't have the time & skills to do a major service like this one. Nor do I have the the necessary hardware/software to deal with the diagnostics etc.

A good example of something I reckon I can do from a skills perspective but not a time and tooling perspective is changing the front CV boots....there's not much mechanically tricky about the process although it appears to be somewhat fiddly (especially if one is lying on their back) and I'd need some specialty bolt drivers (but I might have at least one lying around)....my weekends are fairly precious to me and such a job might take me all weekend. Not a great look when I'm in the middle of reno's....

Which is why I'm prepared to pay professionals.....but I still don't have to like it.

What I do is break the items of a major service down to small parts & do each part as time permits eg fuel filter change, brake fluid change, air cleaner, pollen filter etc can be serviced over a period of time, as long as you document when you do them. The more complicated procedures eg cambelt & fuel pump timing belt changes you could arrange for your service guy to do.
I have found the cost of tooling is very small compared with paying for the job to be done. I am currently assembling the tools to do a cambelt change myself. I have made the crankshaft holding tool to undo/tighten the stretch bolt in the balancer pulley. I purchased the 35mm special spanner 3355 for tightening the tensioner from ebay & the cord & program for setting injection timing also from ebay.