Cost of LWFW & Clutch?
01-22-2008, 10:54 PM
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Pulling the rear suspension cross member does indeed add time. Some shops are including alignment costs and time in their quote.
There are advantages to pulling to whole shebang as at clutch time, other maintenance can and should be performed. Doing such maintenance at this time may allow a watered down labor total increasing value of the job.
There are advantages to pulling to whole shebang as at clutch time, other maintenance can and should be performed. Doing such maintenance at this time may allow a watered down labor total increasing value of the job.
01-22-2008, 11:49 PM
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Any time I do a clutch, I practically demand the owner buys other items such as plugs, p/s belt, upper v/c gaskets, SAI check valve etc. It just make sense. I usually sweep it all in the total cost of the clutch job.
It seems as though 70-100K miles is when clutches give up the ghost, so at that point in time, its time to do a major.
It seems as though 70-100K miles is when clutches give up the ghost, so at that point in time, its time to do a major.
01-23-2008, 08:52 AM
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Any time I do a clutch, I practically demand the owner buys other items such as plugs, p/s belt, upper v/c gaskets, SAI check valve etc. It just make sense. I usually sweep it all in the total cost of the clutch job.
It seems as though 70-100K miles is when clutches give up the ghost, so at that point in time, its time to do a major.
It seems as though 70-100K miles is when clutches give up the ghost, so at that point in time, its time to do a major.
Three weeks ago I (well some wrenchers friends) did all my 60K stuff except the p/s belt which I now understand is insane to try to do with the motor in.
We did do the SAI check valve but that alone took as long as everything else because we had to remove the housing it was frozen into so we could put the whole thing in a vise to free the check valve.
I'm not a mechanic but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.
01-23-2008, 10:35 AM
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01-23-2008, 12:27 PM
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I just called up my shop and said "How much", did a little homework, and pulled the trigger. Think the kit was $1850 and labor $1000 for me.
I dont loose sleep over a few hundred dollars if Im comfortable with who is doing the work and they have a good reputation. My shop backed it up with a 1 year warranty on parts and labor as well.
I dont loose sleep over a few hundred dollars if Im comfortable with who is doing the work and they have a good reputation. My shop backed it up with a 1 year warranty on parts and labor as well.
01-23-2008, 01:04 PM
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I have a C4S and I bugged a lot of people if I could just drop the trans. The shops said they could but I know they have a lot of jacks, people and experience to pull it off. So me being the DIY person I decided to buy a mid-rise lift and a good table jack and do it myself. I am going to drop the motor and do all of the "while your in there stuff." It makes sense for me. Plus I am putting new JIC's on at the same time. So the cost of the lift should be covered by what I saved in labor rates.
