When I did my swap, the pedals were the most annoying and time consuming part. I spent two hours drinking beer, cursing and pulling the pedal basket out, then another 3 hours drinking beer, cursing and putting the new pedal basket in. It fought me the whole time but I got it in.
I'm almost two years on my swap and it was worth it.
My buddy E (SRT2SLOW) has done this swap for friends and members several times now. He did the pedal assembly swap with a beer in one hand the whole time. I guess all that practice has paid off. Lol
All jokes aside, he did say it was the hardest part of the swap. Now I'm just waiting on my tax refund to finally finish this bad girl.