TurboMeUP
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- Oct 22, 2013
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Norton,
Ohio
been building my car from a shell for about 2 months now, finally got the car running put 1.2 miles on the head moved the cam angle sensor (rookie mistake) to try to get the engine to stop sounding like it did (sounded kinda rough and was shakey) finally got it to sound decent and BAM my timing belt snapped and the head i put 1.2 miles on has bent valves now.
going to have to go get it done for the second time. looking at about 1100 from repairs for the shop its at now, seems totally unreasonable to me ,
might take it somewhere else considering a head shouldn't take more than 5 hrs to take out and put back in (how long it took my my first time ever doing it) + 100 for the gaskets and bolts (again) was thinking it shouldn't cost more than like 1000 head rebuild shouldn't be more than 250, 5 hrs labor estimate at 90$ (which is pretty high) an hr is 450 and gasket + bolts 100 = 800 .. thoughts? opinions?
(p.s. my timing belt snapped in idle in my driveway only moving its done is being pushed on and off a trailer)
the only reason i pulled the head before but can't this time is because my girlfriends dad is a mechanic nd i used all his tools and he basically walked me through it but now he's sick of the car (after about 100 hours of free labor) and doesn't want to touch it anymore so i'm all alone on this one
i leave for the air force dec 3rd and i really would like to take this thing out a few times before i leave . but right now doesn't look like it'll happen
I'm going back to the drawling bored with this one
going to have to go get it done for the second time. looking at about 1100 from repairs for the shop its at now, seems totally unreasonable to me ,
might take it somewhere else considering a head shouldn't take more than 5 hrs to take out and put back in (how long it took my my first time ever doing it) + 100 for the gaskets and bolts (again) was thinking it shouldn't cost more than like 1000 head rebuild shouldn't be more than 250, 5 hrs labor estimate at 90$ (which is pretty high) an hr is 450 and gasket + bolts 100 = 800 .. thoughts? opinions?
(p.s. my timing belt snapped in idle in my driveway only moving its done is being pushed on and off a trailer)
the only reason i pulled the head before but can't this time is because my girlfriends dad is a mechanic nd i used all his tools and he basically walked me through it but now he's sick of the car (after about 100 hours of free labor) and doesn't want to touch it anymore so i'm all alone on this one
i leave for the air force dec 3rd and i really would like to take this thing out a few times before i leave . but right now doesn't look like it'll happen
I'm going back to the drawling bored with this one