It is must be nice to be so over paid that you can throw away aftermarket parts. I do agree on one thing, the cams should not be their own camshaft holders, BUT again, a special tool is not needed, you can use a wrench on a certain part of the cams to hold them. Though I didn't even have to do that because there is another way to hold them as well, but I don't suggest it for everyone to do. I guess you don't even know what kind of file I am talking about. A large file that is used to sharpen blades (not fingernails), a file that is in the same shape/size as the ford tool will perform the same job as the ford tool.
Anyways, I obviously know how to work on a zetec (yes A zetec, so I guess if I had to work on another, I couldn't do it, because I've only worked on A zetec yet it still runs fine
). I think you'd be a mechanic I would avoid, number 1 because you probably over charge for a SIMPLE timing belt replacement, because you think you have to buy hundreds of tools to do it. Yet I can change it in my backyard. Any decent mechanic will know how to change a timing belt (correctly) on a zetec and will already have the tools to do it (even if they aren't all ford specific tools). I know the performance shop that installed my cam gears didn't have all the Ford tools yet they managed to install my cam gears perfectly and in less time (less cost) than they had originally quoted. But I'm sure you could find something to argue about with the owner of the performance shop, an owner that builds and races various race cars. There will always be a "by the book" way and then there will be the "what works" way. I go by the "what works" way because it's cheaper, takes less time, and guess what?,,, it works.
