Anyone have a good estimate on this? The labor average in MA is $60 an hour, and the guy who 'looked it up' at his shop said he thinks it's going to take 8 hours, which would be $480... not including gaskets. Assuming he's perfectly capable, what kind of time are we really looking at?
Drat, that's what I was afraid of. Should I buy gaskets ahead of time or just let him try to re-use what he can?
I was given an average for 7 hours and was charged a total of $435.00.
I think the GM manual may have said 5 or 6 hour job. (I may be wrong but i thought that is what it said when i did the swap with some friends.
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Jesse D wrote:Anyone have a good estimate on this? The labor average in MA is $60 an hour, and the guy who 'looked it up' at his shop said he thinks it's going to take 8 hours, which would be $480... not including gaskets. Assuming he's perfectly capable, what kind of time are we really looking at?
umm.. are you rich??
ill do it for you for 350$...
save your money and do it yourself or pay me...
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Haha no I'm not rich by any means, but I don't want to do it myself and screw up something, this car is my daily driver, and if I break it, I'm pretty much stuck with a '94 Suzuki Sidekick indefinitely. However, I am getting the secret cams for $75, so I really can't refuse the offer.... anyone capable in the tri-state area MA/NH/VT want to get together to actually do this swap?
8 hours! i can deffinatly change the cams in like 2 hours tops
labor time is the biggest knee jerk in the country, paying a gloirfied grease monkey to work for 60/hr. is bs. no offense to all you guys that are good with your hands, but we all know that of the 60/hr, you get maybe 20. thanks alot to all the helpless cell-phone brat chicks and old rich fogies for laying this one on us all.
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Umm what happend to your head gasket????
I heard that there not that good ont he cav... the acid eats away at it if you keep the fluid in for a while....
My uncle told me to use this freeze @!#$.. (can't remember), but I think i'm join going to change the fuilds every spring..... (it's supposed to be good for 3 years they say), I dont' trust it lol...
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