transmission service question!

[mrVT]

hey all today decided to go to my mechanic to change my fuel filter cause i never had the tool that takes the connectors off the fuel lines and didnt want to risk breaking them i hadent change fuel filter for 5 yrs so old one had dirt build up in it, anyway while he did that job i told him if he could service my transmission aswell cause i hadent done that either in 5 yrs so he did that took pan off cleaned it put new gasket on and changed tranny filter aswell and topped up with oil also, he charged me $120 to put my fuel filter on which i had gotten and the tranny service which filters and gaskets were his aswell as topping up with 5 lt of tranny oil, did he over charge me or i got a good price???

[Zuicider]

its a good price tranny kit was prolly 30 and the fluid was prolly 40
the rest labour cant whinge there

[accentstencil]

That price is not too bad. No special tool is required to change the fuel filter.

[Zuicider]

isnt there for the vt fuel filters a certain clip that is pretty much throw away

[mrVT]

its a semi circle plastic thing which u push on the fuel connector and pushes tabs in to release fuel filter with hands its pretty hard to push in and if u use pliers or multi grip u will break the connector and u cant actualy change the connector u have to change the whole fuel line and fork out big buks for $16 on this set its not worth the risk they sell em at supercheap.

[lordmuz]

I have a picture of the tool you are talking about on this thread I wrote about changing the fuel injectors:

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...commodore.html

I changed the fuel filter on my VT about 12 months ago, and I didn't use any special tool at the time though...