Originally Posted by
itsadryheat
Thanks to all of you for your inputs. I'm off to the bike store at lunch today - they tend to be pricey so may have to figure out the install myself. I'm pretty good with tools and have a good work bench full of them. Thoughts on that whole idea?
My opinion is, since your frame is older, it's likely a threaded Bottom Bracket so you should be able to do the install yourself. What I'd do is as eric1971 mentioned, youtube it, get it installed as best you can and then have the LBS iron out any 'kinks' you run into. Should save you some decent coin on labor costs.