avoiding hot tank fees

all good responses! if you stay into cars, you will want all the tools applicable for your car!! I guess you could pop out the old freeze plugs and save $5.98?? important thing is if you are spending the $$ for a rebuild is to have a good shop that does it all right, and yes charge a fair price for their, labor, expertise, tools, help, facility etc..
in 1970 I was so poor I had the choice of gas to get to class or eating out at Mickey D's when a big mac cost a dollar. I had 1 big mac that whole year. yes really!