Kit worked; sadly, PS3 had only hours of life left.

My Problem

PS3 YLOD - finally decided it was worth a shot, as I had a couple of games that I wanted to re-play, and Netflix was calling

My Fix

Teardown went OK. My very old model was slightly different from the pictures, but not critically. Had to re-assemble a couple of times to re-seat the ribbon connectors; my first time messing with that style. (And I missed the connector under the WiFi board pulling out entirely the first time)

My Advice

Overall, blah. PS3 worked well enough to spend a couple of hours downloading the latest patches to GTAV, and then died unrecoverably about 6 minutes into a game.