well it all depends on your mechanical skills. if your mechanically inclined than no this project isnt as hard as you might have heard. Though im not saying its an easy unbolt and bolt back up job. It will also take you a while there is a lot of down time letting the oils drain out. The only special tools your goint to need is a seal driver to drive the oil seals back into your forks.Over all if you have mechanical skills go for it if you feel uncomfortable doing it then you can have someone do it. If you want i can email the whole process how to do it. I just didnt want to type it on here if you didnt know the steps. Hope this helps, Cr 1_2_5