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Offline edy

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« on: August 02, 2007, 20:31:55 »
does any one know how much it is roughly to have a head skimmed (it is a V6 essex by the way)?
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2007, 20:42:20 »
Your looking at £50-£60, well, thats how much I got quoted, or have I been ripped off?
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2007, 20:49:10 »
are you taking the head off yourself??
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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2007, 21:18:55 »
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are you taking the head off yourself??

Better to take the head off the engine...  :roll:

I'll get mi coat...
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2007, 21:26:53 »
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Quote from: "Lyndsey731"
are you taking the head off yourself??

Better to take the head off the engine...  :roll:

I'll get mi coat...


It'd be best to take both off actually... being a v6 you wouldn't want different compression on one side to the other would you!!!
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2007, 21:54:12 »
We pay about £25 per cylinder head.
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2007, 21:58:21 »
Same here
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2007, 23:06:05 »
yeh yeh i will be taking them of my-sef, one of the gaskets are bubbling so i thought wile i have the head of may aswell get it skimmed, so you would advise taking both of them to be skimmed?
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2007, 00:00:40 »
I paid £80 to have both heads off my v8 skimmed a few months ago. I took them off and stripped all the valves off myself, then reassembled them again myself afterwards..
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2007, 00:24:43 »
i may aswell have them done then. while im hear save starting another thread how will i no i cn use this engine with unleaded fuel? is it expensive to change to unleaded and does it realy matter, cant i just run it unleaded any way? the engine was put in ten years ago and had an MOT up untill 2 years ago so chances are it probly does but just to be shure.
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2007, 16:18:58 »
I pay £20 a head for the V8 as they take a bit of setting up.  Hoping it will be the same for the TDi as it looks like it's cooked after a rad failure.
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