your not talking about that ht4100 pos are you. lmao

 

No THANKFULLY I rarely see those TURDS nowadays. Now adays we are just putting timing chains on with every 15K mile oil change Thanks to GM's wonderful oil life monitors.

 

a week to basicly rebuild a motor....

 

depends on what you mean by rebuild. if you mean bare block yes. short blocks, heads, long blocks can be done in less then 3 days. assuming that there are no other jobs going on and all parts are in house or local.

 

Hold on now, I just watched horsepower tv and they did it in less then 30minutes.

 

Pay their production costs and I'll bet 30 to 40 hours looks cheap.

 

i love those black boxes! and the 25 hr. is normal and fair. just be glad you dont have a e series

 

My '06 is in the shop now (actually last 6 weeks). The est. from ford was $3200 for head gaskets

 

Six weeks Sounds more like the dealer stole your ride,That is far too long for a shop to have a customers vehicle IMHO I would loose it on someone if I were in your shoes.

 

I am paying $5500 for HG's & ARP head studs, Bulletproof EGR cooler, Liberator external oil cooler.

For just the HG's I am paying around $3500..........

 

A lot of that also depends on the tuner brand and who wrote the tunes!

 

Is changing the head gaskets hard, our is it just allot of man hours. I am some what a novice and do not want to rip truck apart and not be able to complete job.

 

hard is relitive. I find it easy to do myself. I done more then a few set however. yes its a lot of man hours.

 

With six weeks left on my warranty and 43,000 on the truck. I took it in to the dealer for minor puking. They changed the oil cooler, turbo, and head gaskets. The bill was $5,400.00. My part was $1,200.00 as I requested ARP studs be installed. I consider myself lucky as I now have ARP studs. If you get your head gaskets changed I would sure pay the extra to have the studs installed. It sure gives you piece of mind and I could get a tuner without having to worry.