[s-cars] Is taking the head off difficult?

[Walsh, Edward]

Zoinks!

Sounds like I'll need roughly $350 worth of one-time-use (hopefully!) tools.
Add that to the cost of bolts, gaskets and parts and the dealer's quote of
$1,300 doesn't sound so bad.....

It does sound like a doable project, however.  Would the dealership discount
the labor cost of the T belt, S belt, water pump etc, "because they are
already in there"?

Thanks again!

Ed



-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Kessel [mailto:igor at s-cars.org]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 1:38 PM
To: Walsh, Edward
Cc: 's-car-list at audifans.com'; 'rundeep_32 at yahoo.com'
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Is taking the head off difficult?


"Walsh, Edward" wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> If my HG is blown and I decide to take the head off myself, would I be
> setting up for a 12 Corona disaster?  I have swapped out springs, changed
> the VC gasket and stuff like that, but never performed open heart surgery.
>
> Other than a Bentley, do I need any special tools to remove the head?

Ed,
I heven't done an AAn head thus far (knocking on my head eeer... I meant
wood), but I've doen plenty much 10v, 8v heads and even a Benz head here
and a Mitsu head there. In fact I am doing the 1.8T head off my wife's
A4 this very moment.

In a nut shell yes, it is doable, it's just not your average elementary


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