Quick Labor Hour Quote Help.
 

Can anyone give me a rough labor hour estimate for a professional shop to install the following. Assuming the labor and parts removal for installing a set of coil-overs is already done.

Rear Toe Arms
Front Endlinks
Rear Swaybar Endlinks
Eccentric Lock Out Kit
Rear Traction Arms
Front Upper Caster Arms
Front Lower Arm Bushings
Rear Camber Arms
Rear Knuckle Monoball Bushing Set
Solid Subframe Bushings

I don’t work for a shop but I did most of those items in my garage. I’d say it would take me 8 hours so I assume a competently ship with a lift could handle most of that in 4-6hrs. Just a guess though.

I would say 6 to 8 hours depending on if they have clue about the subframe bushings. They are a bitch to do!

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6-8 sounds about right, I would guess closer to 8. You got a whole lot of SPL bushings.

My shop charged me 4 hours for installing:

• Coilovers
• Front upper arms
• Rear camber and toe arms

On another occasion for my G sedan (with rear steering), 4 hours for installing rear Whiteline subframe and diff bushings.

Taking into account for additional parts you have (endlinks, traction arms, additional SPL bushings), but with synergy for doing this all at once, I would guess 8 hours.

Relatively small price to pay for the parts you are getting installed though :yum:

That's the break down. A good shop should be able to beat those times. But don't count on it. The rear sub frame bushings. They may want to drop it. Add hours for that. The rear knuckles will have to be removed from the car. The lower front control arm bushings can be a bear if you don't know what you are doing.

Before there, done that.

If wanted I can get you an exact list of times when I'm at work tomorrow

The rate they are charging me they should be very good at what they do and have all the tools they need imo. +15/hr above normal nyc rates ~+22%.
15.8hrs for just those parts including, forgot to mention, the front and rear sway bar.

Coilovers with remote reservoir 8.4 doing a very clean job for access and any holes.

Be interesting if they can get it done in 15.8 hrs. If two people working at the same time yeah. But then it's 31 hrs.

Where are you mounting the rear reservoir? 8.4 hrs sounds a bit steep for coilovers install, unless it means drilling holes and routing rear reservoirs into the cabin. Or is that 8.4 already included within the 15.8?

Let me break this down correctly for you guys.

Front Suspension SPL Parts Only - 7.8
Rear Suspension SPL Parts Only - 8.0
Hotchkiss Front - 0.8
Hotchkiss Rear - 0.6
SUM=17.2

JRZ RS Pro
Front - 3.4
Rear - 3.0
SUM= 6.4

Route Hose, drill holes, mount reservoir with included brackets, rear mount in cargo area. Extra focus on aesthetics for mounting and trimming interior. - 2.0

Total - 25.6 man hrs.

Add up my hours. I come out at 26. I was close. :D

Man I got a great deal on my install. Did have the coils and some the front end work but they did my Wavetrak rear diff install at the same time.