garye

Went to the chevy dealership and everything on the underside of my vette is gone or disconnected. Tranny and drive shaft out, rear end out, headers disconnected, its the 2nd day in the shop, is this common? The way it looks I worry that everything will be put back correctly and as tight as it was. I’m I too paranoid or justified in my concerns?

djfury05

Try doing some research before freaking out.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...full-pics.html

ttx350z

Yep. It's normal. What'd they charge for a clutch swap?

Here's a photo of mine when my clutch was swapped @ Horsepower Addicts. It was a 1 day turnaround though.

timd38

Dealer has to justify the book labor, so they leave it apart an extra day!

C6David

Ya gotta take all that stuff out to do the clutch. Only thing left in there is the motor and front sub frame.

Brandon619

A clutch job on a C6 is a VERY involved job. You got lucky they did your clutch because having headers most stealerships won't even mess with them.

garye

The dealership is at 18 hours of labor @109.00 ph and tomorrow will be the 3rd all day they have had it.

djfury, being a little condescending aren’t we? It must be nice knowing everything.

For everyone else thank you for your responses.

PS djfury, it is a nice write up, thanks for that

Unreal

Completely normal.

If you are paying by the hour, ouch. Even with headers it should be a 8-9 hour job. Most LS shops are $800-900 for a clutch job. Maybe add $100 for headers.

garye

I’ll be looking at close to $2,000.00 for labor and the Mantic clutch was $1,595.00, quite the expense

Unreal

Your getting RAPED on labor. That is more than double what it should be.

ttx350z

Shoulda taken a road trip out of state!

Would have been cheaper and had a mini vacation!

Dano523

Ditto on getting raped on labor charges.

Most shops will charge around a grand in labor for a clutch replacement, while the dealer will charge around $1500 in labor instead.

As for headers, if they are in the way to drop the drive line, then maybe a extras $100 in labor instead.

Simply, here is your clutch inside the bell housing, and to get at it, everything behind it has to be removed from the car. So rear A frame is unbolted and this allow the A frame that is connector the diff, diff that is connect to the trans trans, trans that is connected to the torque tube, torque tube is connected to the bell housing to be pulled rearward off the back of the motor and dropped out to get at the clutch that is at the back of the engine to start with.

PA_BLUE_C6

............Dano, thank for your informative posts..........

Dano523

No worries, and could be worse if say you had a R8, where rear body parts have to be removed as well to the get to the clutch to begin with. With the vet, it just the drive line to the back of the motor that has to be pulled back and out only (no body parts in the way).

rpmextra

Thanks for the shout out, I'm glad seeing my write up on a few threads. makes all that time worth it.

well getting the dealer to do must had you believing you were gonna pay more. However that being said, 19hrs is too much. it's less than 12hr book time. if I'n not mistaken, it's 11.3 base, and 11.9 with coolers.

I've done a few and usually charge 750-800 plus parts on C6's

Other than that, I'm sure they will do it right though,

garye

your right Doug and I just had that discussion tonight, you know what they say about hindsight...

Unreal

How do you not get a quote before starting work and cross shop? You never go in with an open check book for automotive work.

garye

I did get a quote $1,110.000, however they said it took 6 hours to take the headers off that they didn’t consider, 6 hours.

rpmextra

I have headers on mine and if you look at the link to my dyi, the headers don't need to be fully removed nor would it take 6 hours. The driver side is 6 very accessible bolts and it's out, and the passenger side same thing but you can leave it there.

Dano523

Stock exhaust system has to be unbolted from the cats back, And will bank that your aftermarket system came off faster then it would normally had taken them to pull the factory exhaust system with cats (headers and all).

So total BS on taking 6 hours to pull the headers as added shop time, unless the header collectors where welded to the X pipe instead (had to grind the welds free to begin with, then will have to re-weld them back in place).