I'm not so sure, the quotes I got to redo the head was about the same as about one week of pay for me. Remember this was when I was just out of college, employed for less than a year. Today I would pay someone to fix it for me.

So yes I lost about a weeks pay due to unforseen circumstances, but probably the shop would have suffered the same troubles, raising the cost, and I got to learn quite a lot about enjins etc.