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Title: head skimmed
Post by: edy 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)?

Title: head skimmed
Post by: diggerdog36 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?

Title: head skimmed
Post by: Lyndsey731 on August 02, 2007, 20:49:10

are you taking the head off yourself??

Title: head skimmed
Post by: thermidorthelobster on August 02, 2007, 21:18:55

Quote from: "Lyndsey731"

are you taking the head off yourself??

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

I'll get mi coat...

Title: head skimmed
Post by: Disco-Ron on August 02, 2007, 21:26:53

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

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!!!

Title: head skimmed
Post by: muddydisco on August 02, 2007, 21:54:12

We pay about £25 per cylinder head.

Title: head skimmed
Post by: ben_haynes on August 02, 2007, 21:58:21

Same here

Title: head skimmed
Post by: edy 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?

Title: head skimmed
Post by: tomarse 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..

Title: head skimmed
Post by: edy 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.

Title: head skimmed
Post by: Range Rover Blues 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.