well, every shop charges pretty much what they want for labor these days, and what area your in, tends to also, relate to costs of labor,
I don't own a L170, so I cannot say for certain, about how much labor is involved in flipping the cab, to get to things
I do know that on my LX 865(1999 yr model)
it has a heater on roof,
that when the hose off the bottom of the tank was leaking (which sounds like your issue here)
it was a major job to lift cab, required a second machine,(I used a backhoe) and a lot of disassembly, it took about 15 hours working slow, to tilt cab, and replace old hoses(I replaced ALL hoses that were hard to get to without cab tilted, as I didn;t want to have to tilt cab again any time soon,
so I replaced things just cause I was there,
all in all, again it took about 15 hrs for me to get all done,apart and back together, and work was done in an old farm NON heated shop in 20 degree temps! with poor lighting!
which wasn't much fun or helping speed up things! HAHA!
plus I worked slower now , I'm older and have health issues! that just take me longer to do!
in a better heated shop, with a over head crane to tilt cab, and see better plus not being cold, I am sure I could have been faster at this repair! but sometimes you do what you got too, to get things fixed!
SO< that being said, I would think, if your cab tilts like mine, and a younger skilled tech was doing the work in a shop with means to do all, I think 10hrs of labor seems in the ball park on things, so ask them what there labor is per hour?(10 hr x "X" labor rate = ?
say if $150 an hr, x 10= $1500 in labor! ,
NOW< if there coming out to your place to do repair, that UPS there charges, for on site repair
or if there hauling the machine from your place to them and back, , that adds to costs
so not knowing this info, hard to say if things seem high or not
lastly, if you get yourself a REAL service manual from NH< they normally have information that shows expected hours to do repairs, as in hours to do"X" work, which you can then see what the manual says is a expected labor time, for your repair!
every model will be different, due to differences in how things are accessed and or what needs to be removed!
so its model specific, and why having a service manual is something worth having if your keeping a machine a long time!
I would ask the repair shop, for a break down on labor hours for this job,then you know exactly how many hours there claiming!
and OR you can always call another shop and ask them for an estimate based on the info you were told from the first shop,
Parts and what all is wrong!
as like I said in the beginning, location maters on costs, so you got to work with shops in your area to get numbers based on your area's costs!
