Am I getting ripped off?

I just had to look.... Got browsing around and ended up buying the awd kit for the wife's T&C. Hell it was only $450 and now I can put a blade on it and she can help with the snow...if we ever get any. Maybe ole Snoidiot uses them..

Denny

Dude, that is just too damn funny!

You can get the sky hooks on the net:

Pink performance parts? I'm about to install a radiator insulator. Not the fancy KaleCo one, I get the disposable ones made by Anheuser-Busch. It's going down to 19°F tonight (extreme cold for Atlanta) and I want a bit of heat in the cab when I get off work in the morning.

KaleCo radiator insulator:

I would think that the bypass hose would always be replaced when servicing the thermostat, because pulling the thermostat in V-8s from the late 1990s models involves quite a bit of disassembly (remove alt, a/c, and brackets). They relocated the themostat housing in subsequent models.

I'm a cynic, but I can imagine that perhaps your shop didn't have the correct hose laying around, and wanted to get your job out and billed. Now that I'm mad at the mechanic, I also imagine that he damaged the bypass hose by prying at it with a screwdriver :)

Martin