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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 11:36 AM
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2005 6.0 PSD HG replacement

took the truck to the dealer since antifreeze was coming out of the reservoir and diagnosed that they have to replace the head gasket and quoted me $6,100 (their labor rate is $142/hr....in San Jose, CA)

Seems a bit high: what you guys think would be a fair price and amount of hours for the job?

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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 06:36 PM
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all stock truck with no adds is about 25hours labor. add a lift and a ranch hand we may add more labor.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 06:42 PM
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Why is it more with a lift? Dont you guys usually pull the cab for HG replacements anyways?
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 06:45 PM
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see this is killing me with the whole pull the cab thing. Not everybody pulls cabs. some of us do what the book says to do.
also pull a cab on a lifted truck can still be more of a pain then a stock cab but that varies from lift to lift as well as hight.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 06:48 PM
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Oh, didnt know that... So do you (and the book) pull the motor? Or pull the heads in the truck?
 
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The heads are pulled inframe with the cab on. Ive tried the "pulling the cab" IMO its a waste of my time amoungst other things.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 06:59 PM
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The heads are pulled inframe with the cab on. Ive tried the "pulling the cab" IMO its a waste of my time amoungst other things.
 
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Old Sep 9, 2010 | 07:02 PM
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I still pull the cabs (my 56 year old back likes it better)
 
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