From: Porch on
I just replaced the head gaskets and everything went well. But I lost
track of the valve buckets/shims. Normaly, I would adjust the valves
myself (never done it, but it does not look too hard), but I lack the
time and the shims. Since my truck was due for the Relay Rod recall, I
figued I would let the dealer take care of the valves too. Dealer is
Toyota of Temecula Valley. Yes I will state there name since I buy
parts from them all the time and they are a good bunch.

The dealer quoted me 8 hours to do the valves? Now it takes me about 30
minutes to get eveything off and the valve covers off. Looking at the
book, and with a shim set and correct SST tool in hand, I can't see it
taking more then an hour to check and replace the shims. Then 30
minutes to button everything up. And I am just shade-tree with basic
skills.

What is the dealer doing for the next 6 hours? Is this milking it or
what?

From: Tony on
I did the valves on the my 92 Toyota Pick-up, by the way I have the special
tool if you wish to buy it, and it took about 2 hours to do it. Those shims
are a PAIN IN THE A$$ to take out especially the #2 cyclinder and the #5 due
to their location with the items around them. Having the correct shims is
the biggest part also. I found that after I did the job it still did not run
right. So they may do a couple runs in between the adjustments to let
everything set. Good luck....

--
Tony
95 Toyota Tacoma 2wd
K&N FIPK Generation 2 w/ Throttle Body Spacer
Fiberglass fenders w/ 31x1050 BFG A/T KO's



"Porch" <eddies(a)softhome.net> wrote in message
news:1154131743.732226.205890(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I just replaced the head gaskets and everything went well. But I lost
> track of the valve buckets/shims. Normaly, I would adjust the valves
> myself (never done it, but it does not look too hard), but I lack the
> time and the shims. Since my truck was due for the Relay Rod recall, I
> figued I would let the dealer take care of the valves too. Dealer is
> Toyota of Temecula Valley. Yes I will state there name since I buy
> parts from them all the time and they are a good bunch.
>
> The dealer quoted me 8 hours to do the valves? Now it takes me about 30
> minutes to get eveything off and the valve covers off. Looking at the
> book, and with a shim set and correct SST tool in hand, I can't see it
> taking more then an hour to check and replace the shims. Then 30
> minutes to button everything up. And I am just shade-tree with basic
> skills.
>
> What is the dealer doing for the next 6 hours? Is this milking it or
> what?
>


From: Scotty on

"Porch" <eddies(a)softhome.net> wrote in message
news:1154131743.732226.205890(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I just replaced the head gaskets and everything went well. But I lost
> track of the valve buckets/shims. Normaly, I would adjust the valves
> myself (never done it, but it does not look too hard), but I lack the
> time and the shims. Since my truck was due for the Relay Rod recall, I
> figued I would let the dealer take care of the valves too. Dealer is
> Toyota of Temecula Valley. Yes I will state there name since I buy
> parts from them all the time and they are a good bunch.
>
> The dealer quoted me 8 hours to do the valves? Now it takes me about 30
> minutes to get eveything off and the valve covers off. Looking at the
> book, and with a shim set and correct SST tool in hand, I can't see it
> taking more then an hour to check and replace the shims. Then 30
> minutes to button everything up. And I am just shade-tree with basic
> skills.
>
> What is the dealer doing for the next 6 hours? Is this milking it or
> what?
>

Took us 6hrs to do ours.


From: crashq on
The dealers are simply going to their "book" which has the estimated
time to perform all of the typical automotive tasks. These books are
very liberal with times. Any competent mechanic can do most of these
tasks in half of the time or less.. I had a valve job done at the
dealer. $3000 later I had to buy medicine to treat the hemmorhoids from
my reaming.

Do it yourself.

From: sam diego on
the Book is always unfair and I believe it amounts to price fixing and
should be illegal. There is no competition and that's the reason the price
is unreasonable. This violates the premis of capitolism and free trade.
"crashq" <crashq(a)pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:1155334500.260924.105050(a)74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> The dealers are simply going to their "book" which has the estimated
> time to perform all of the typical automotive tasks. These books are
> very liberal with times. Any competent mechanic can do most of these
> tasks in half of the time or less.. I had a valve job done at the
> dealer. $3000 later I had to buy medicine to treat the hemmorhoids from
> my reaming.
>
> Do it yourself.
>