Labor Hours Needed for a clutch install
03-16-2007, 03:37 PM
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It took me and my dad about 4 hours to do it, working with it on jackstands. I had a previous clutch job done by a dealer and it took them about 6. Cost me my left pinky ~$1k parts and labor. It is not as hard as it might seem. Only problem we had afterwards was having to bleed the system. It wouldn't move.
03-16-2007, 04:49 PM
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I spent about 8 hours doing my first clutch install all by myself...I've watched someone else do it in about 4-5 that was a good mechanic. Somewhere between 4-8 hours is what I'd expect, closer to 4 if they have experience with these cars.
03-16-2007, 07:44 PM
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I am not sure how long it took, but my mechanic only charged me $130 to install my LS6 clutch and new slave cylinder. Thats one of the few things i was willing to pay someone else to do, save time and headaches.
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03-17-2007, 10:14 AM
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I had my car taken to a stealership and they got me for almost $500 to do the install+slave+pilot bearing+bleeding on my ls6 clutch. If I was not in Iraq at the time I would have taken the car else where but a buddy of mine was watching the car and helping me get the things I wanted done to the car (ultra z hood, custom paint, new stereo, etc.).
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Originally Posted by MeentSS02
I spent about 8 hours doing my first clutch install all by myself...I've watched someone else do it in about 4-5 that was a good mechanic. Somewhere between 4-8 hours is what I'd expect, closer to 4 if they have experience with these cars.
03-19-2007, 07:38 AM
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i dont know anyone, thats capable pulling the tranny down and putting it back buy himself unless he is a trained mechanic....i did it but need help putting it back in had to monuver / wiggle it in to place.....
03-24-2007, 05:00 PM
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I've done it myself in the driveway on jack stands, no tranny jack. It can be done, but who the **** wants to do it themselves? At least have a friend around to kill time and bullshit with! 
03-25-2007, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by 98redM6
It took me and my dad about 4 hours to do it, working with it on jackstands. I had a previous clutch job done by a dealer and it took them about 6. Cost me my left pinky ~$1k parts and labor. It is not as hard as it might seem. Only problem we had afterwards was having to bleed the system. It wouldn't move.
03-26-2007, 09:40 AM
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Hell, it's taking me over 2 days! But I also had to wait for my flywheel to get resurfaced and the 2 hours worth of running back and forth to the parts store for crap that I forget. I think the second one that I do will take all of 4-5 hours taking my time.
03-28-2007, 12:13 PM
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first time around took me 10 hours, since it was my first time, a lot of it was spent being careful and just learning as I went along.
Now that I know what's involved and with a true dual setup coming in the next month, I'm sure I could cut down that time in half.
Now that I know what's involved and with a true dual setup coming in the next month, I'm sure I could cut down that time in half.
03-28-2007, 02:43 PM
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I'm talking about pulling the tranny out. I think I can do that within 5 hours.
As far as exhaust goes, I had to remove the y-pipe to slip the tranny out. With that out and only the headers left in there, I reached up and realized I could get to all the bolts without much hassle from underneath. Since I've already done a tune up once before along with a LS6 intake swap, I've had pretty much everything around the headers disconnected at one point or another. If I had the cash at the time of my clutch swap, throwing in headers at that time would have been easy...
As it goes, I'm thinking I'll install the LT headers, y-pipe have everything running then off to an exhaust shop to fabricate the rest after the cats. I already have a panhard rod with the panhard relocation kit for true duals over the axles.
With that in mind, if I had the cash I'd do heads and cam now too, but alas $$$ is never handy...
As far as exhaust goes, I had to remove the y-pipe to slip the tranny out. With that out and only the headers left in there, I reached up and realized I could get to all the bolts without much hassle from underneath. Since I've already done a tune up once before along with a LS6 intake swap, I've had pretty much everything around the headers disconnected at one point or another. If I had the cash at the time of my clutch swap, throwing in headers at that time would have been easy...
As it goes, I'm thinking I'll install the LT headers, y-pipe have everything running then off to an exhaust shop to fabricate the rest after the cats. I already have a panhard rod with the panhard relocation kit for true duals over the axles.
With that in mind, if I had the cash I'd do heads and cam now too, but alas $$$ is never handy...
