Time estimate for a head gasket?

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04-04-2013, 02:05 AM

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Van

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Originally Posted by John_AZ

Van,

You are one of the most respected RL members and I have watched & bookmarked all your videos and many posts.
Your garage and tools make my garage pathetic.

6 hours?

You have previously posted the "shop hours" is about 10? and add more if a problem.
F4OLM has a broken stud.

Porsche Doc says 11 hours..

https://rennlist.com/forums/924-931-...n-an-83-a.html

Just to torque the head takes an hour or more. Clarks lists "wait" time between steps at 15 minutes. I wait at least 30 minutes between steps.

Just a courteous disagreement on your 6 hour time.
I tend to be more realistic.

J_AZ

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Originally Posted by odurandina

Van ?

why yes; our dear friend could do it. i betcha he could.

having been inside the sacred walls of the Temple,

i know he is no mere mortal.

You guys crack me up. And you're probably right on the time. At a Lemons Race, we once did a head gasket in a field in 3 hours... But there were several of us working on it, and we'd all done it before.

However, don't take the OP's broken stud into account - he said he's going to put on a fresh head. If he's done the belts recently, and that's fresh in his mind, it shouldn't take more than 2, maybe 3, hours to get the timing belt off, get the fuel rail flopped over to the side, get the intake off and disconnect the header from the cat pipe. Then off with the cam box and then the head is only 10 nuts and 2 bolts away! (Actually, sometimes the heater hose can be a bear...)

Add some head scratching and time to clean up parts, and I'm happy to revise that to 10 hours.