vavle cover and uim gasket replacement

[boostedguy05]

so my dads friend that has his own shop told my did he could replace all his gaskets (the ones in title) for around 700-800 due to the motor needing to come out? that does not sound right to me at all.

main question. how hard would this be to do in the driveway? and about how long would it take?


this is on an 03 bon. sle n/a 3800

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[Yaj Yak]

your dads friend is a jagbag.

a good solid whole day and you could do it by yourself with hand tools others could definitely do it faster.

no your motor does not need to come out.

 

[G_T_O]

You will be able to do it yourself like kj said with hand tools. It's not a bad job

 

[boostedguy05]

the only thing i can think of is maybe he was also going to do the lower gasket as well...

i did not get all the details from my dad as we were on the phone. he is on vacation in TN and left the car for my mom to drive. she called me to look at it. i had to replace his upper coolant hose last nite. had a crack in it ans was spraying coolant on the crossover and smoking like a sob.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Forgive me but what lower gasket

 

[snoop]

i will do it for you WAY cheaper if you want. pm me if interested dude. that guy is straight greedy or just ridiculous...

 

[C.Evans]

Forgive me but what lower gasket

Lim gasket.

 

[Yaj Yak]

lol thats what i assumed... and yeah that would take like an extra 47 minutes at most.

 

[C.Evans]

definetly do it while you are there.

 

[daturbosix]

ill do it cheaper.

 

[RICH17]

I wonder if hes talking about a pan gasket. The motor has to come out for that.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

the later H bodies with the large triangular alum pass side engine mount dont even have to undo the mount bolts, you can drop the pan with the motor in the car

less than 2 hours of labor iirc

problem is the rear block cover/gasket has been a 50/50 shot lately on the motors ive been regasketing whether with the earlier paper gasket or the later 05/05.5+ aluminum rear gasket

so its almost worth it to yank the whole bugger and replace everything

i know some of you have seen the pics ive been taking of those rear gaskets, you know i aint wearing foil when i talk about that shit

 

[RICH17]

This is an 05/06 GP

Why dont you just come by the house one weekend. Pay for the beer and pizza. We can get this done in no time

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

this is on an 03 bon. sle n/a 3800

sounds like its on a bonnie

 

[Freebeer187]

wow thats expensive. I got both my lim and valve cover gaskets done for a fraction of that.

 

[G_T_O]

I did my oil pan gasket with the motor still in. Was a pita but got it done

 

[RICH17]

How?

 

[1quick]

with an engine hoist you remove the motor mount and lift it a little, it sucks but you can do it, i did it on my old regal

 

[boostedguy05]

How?

not my car, my dads 03 bonnie

 

[DanJ]

Large triangular passenger side bracket? I thought that was H body up until 00. You talking about the one that makes changing belts a PITA?

 

[RICH17]

not my car, my dads 03 bonnie

Oh okay. I thought it was your car. You dads car isnt SC tho?

 

[boostedguy05]

N/A 3800

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Large triangular passenger side bracket? I thought that was H body up until 00. You talking about the one that makes changing belts a PITA?

the large alum bracket is the low mount one 00/01+ where the earlier mount is the iron ball mount that makes changing the belts a PITA unless you do a couple little mods to the bracket
cut the lower hole into a slot and grind a 45* angle on one edge of each end of the spacer sleeve so it looks almost like a parallelogram e.g.
______________
/_____________ l
l_____________ l <center hole
l_____________/

to change the belts after this all you do is loosen the lower nut, unthread the stud from the block and drop it down and you can change both belts easy when you ensert it you just spin the sleeve so the flat untouched end sits against the unslotted portion of the lower bracket hole.

ive done it to countless G/B/H/C bodies whenever i have to change the water pump/etc and i have the bracket out.

did it with cody's (turtleman) riv and he loves how easy it is to change now