400i Cam cover gasket and…

I assume it is under the plenum. That's not horrendous, but quite some parts to remove and re-install.

I would say 2hrs?

 

2 hours?????? Have you ever done it? 2 hours. Thats funny.

 

I am much more used to the left side

Image Unavailable, Please Login

He is not talking about shiming the vavles, or disconecting the chain, just replacing the gasket of a single camcover of a single bank. Also this is a 400 "i", which is less work than when you've got to mess with carbs.(I am also assuming he cuts the gasket so as to replace it on a single camcover).

If you venture in all the usual "while you are there", this could another (expensive) story, but if he sticks to a gasket, that's "not horrendous" (please note that i did not say it was "easy", just "not horrendous"...)

 

No. You said none of that. You said it was a 2 hour job which is total BS

 

I don't mean to argue with you but, your answer is rude (to say the least).

Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login

Let's keep factual: it obviously took me less than 2h45min (see the timestamp) to drop all the ancilaries of this particular cylinder head, and:
1) there is less work involved in the OP request.
2) Any professional mechanic is much faster than I am.
3) I have no rememberance on what I also did on this particular day, but as I do not perform it for a leaving, I probably had a chat, a coffee, etc... between these two shots! At least I had to backtrack on what I was doing (testing the k-jet pressure judging by the tools installed)

We may argue all day long on what's involved in this particular task, but at the end of the day it will not be much, and the OP is not going to break the bank in order to fix this leak.

 

Bubba, you were right to ignore this thread. This guy is an idiot and the last person you should be getting information from.

 

I spent almost 2 hours just cleaning the mating surfaces...

 

A wood chisel does help.