how many hours for a head gasket???

--
larry


Anyone know how many hours it takes to change the head gasket on a 94 saturn
sl1?? Mechanic at the garage says 68 hours !??? Any sense to this?

 

2 days, 20 hours? Where did he pull this number up? Is this an "actual"
timeed labor estimate? You seriously need to get another mechanic. Fire this
one as soon as possible, don't even discuss it with him, just go get another
one.

I assume this was a private garage and not Saturn? If it was a Saturn
retailer garage, then I wold address this with the Service Manager and get a
viable explanation.

I recently has the head gasket replaced on my 94 SL2 by Saturn, the labor
only took a few hours, half a day at most if they are busy.

We have had much more major work done on our 93 SL1 and they have never kept
our car for longer than 2 days and that was to replace the transmission!

marx404

 

68 hours is ridiculous! That's like almost ten days (assuming 7 hour work
days)! Are you sure that it isn't 6.8 ?

 

6.8 six point eight.

 

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:02:51 GMT, "Laurent Doiron"


Anyone know how many hours it takes to change the head gasket on a 94
saturn
sl1?? Mechanic at the garage says 68 hours !??? Any sense to this?

Maybe that was 6-8 hrs.
MR

 

--
larry

Six to eight hours is maybe what he said but when he told me 68 hours... I
asked him again and I'm sure he said again 68 and not 6 to 8. I usually do
all my mechanic but a head gasket, I would be afraid to mess something up,
and I don't deal with this mechanic or any often.
I guess it must've been a DUH !! moment for me. Stupid question I guess. But
when you don't know.....what can I say. I will give him a call and verify
this, I must!! I feel foolish now. Thanks for that wake up call!!

 

These are the book values for a 97 SL2. I suspect your numbers for an SL1
would be similar.

Bottom line: They get you for 12.7 hours book for this work.



Labor Skill Level
Warr Std.

Cylinder Head Gasket Replace B
7.8 10.8

Includes: Remove Carbon &

Make Necessary Adjustments.


Note

With AC Add B
0.8 1.1

To Replace Valve Cover

Gasket If Necessary, Add B
0.5 0.8

 

Did mine myself in about 4.5 hours. But i do this daily so
others time may vary.

Tim

 

More important question: How many hours of service can I expect to
get from my Saturn car- before the head gasket needs replacing? circle
one:

(A)10 (B) 50 (C)100 (D)500

answer: all of the above.

 

<snip>

answer: pull the stick out of your ass already.

 

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 01:02:51 +0000, Laurent Doiron wrote:

Are you SURE he didn't say 6 OR 8 hours?