..Its actually more of a nightmare to remove the engine. You have to disconnect the exhaust system, the motor mounts, the transmission, geeze - so many things will come up. You can leave the tranny connected - depending on exactly what car were talking about, but sometimes youll have to remove part of the front bodywork, radiator, etc....bla, bla, bla per the Mopar Man
So long as the public doesnt demand R R the entire power train in 60 minutes flat by a two man team, DM is going to keep peddling the four wheel abominations fools continue to lay down hard-earned cash for.
A clutch replacement should be a 15 minute drop in.
The fuel injectors should not take more than a minute each for access and individual testing for function.
Need I go on? Your $30,000 "investments" are essentially throwaways after the warranty runs out. They are just too expensive to fix, if they can be fixed. I say that because design deficiencies keep rearing their ugly heads like fatally flawed electronic trashmissions. Imagine that, cars have been around for 120 years and they havent been perfected yet! I know that to be a fact because with each new model year, the factories tell us theyre new and improved!!
Expect the new technology to come along in the near future to make cars even more expensive and even more unreliable. Fuel cells, hybrid drive, engine-generator-motor drives, gasoline-battery drives, and last, but not least, sunlight-pedal powered fabric-over-frame models like the Cheks used to make behind the Iron Curtain.