I have a customer that brought me an LBZ with a cracked piston. The dealership removed one head and charged him 15hrs, saying that was book time. I find that hard to believe. Is there a link or anything for what GM books?
What is GM book time for one head?
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Did they charge him for a compression test as part of that 15 hours?
15 hours doesn't seem too out of line if they did some diagnostics before they did the teardown. There's a lot of shit to be removed before either head can come off. Once all of that is out of the way, the second head is not very much more work.
15 hours doesn't seem too out of line if they did some diagnostics before they did the teardown. There's a lot of shit to be removed before either head can come off. Once all of that is out of the way, the second head is not very much more work.
15 to remove, give est. on repair then just box up and watch it be towed out is way excessive! Around 5 is more like it. This stuff isnt rocket science people! Folks have to stop trying to squeeze a house payment out of every job they get!
That's comical it takes around 5 hours to pull the motor and have the heads off. Doing the whole job doesn't even add up to the time they give for one head.
Exactly my thoughts.. We can pull a single LBZ head in 3.5hrs. Diagnosing a cracked piston is pretty simple. I would think 7hrs would be fair to quote. All they did was pull the pass side head and put everything in the bed.
at the GM dealership i used to work at one of the master techs pulled a melted piston with rod attached out of the bottom of the block on a kodiak (never pulled the heads) and put a new piston/rod back in a couple hours....eff my life for not paying attention to how he did it but i would assume you would at least have to pull the crank or am i way off?
not calling you a lair but,,, you sure he didnt pull the head and pull the rod/piston out the top?