Does anyone know how long this should take?
Tech Contributor
Joined: Aug 1999
Posts: 14,381
Likes: 6,396
From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
If you're going to sandblast, clean and paint all of the suspension components as part of the rebuild, the job could take a couple of days. If you're simply dropping the front end, knocking all the bushings and ball joints out of it and pressing in new stuff with new replacement tie rods and idler arm, you can do the whole job in about 6 hours, assuming you're using a lift and have good/proper power tools. Add to that time the cost for an alignment, and you're up in the 10-hour range for labor. At common shop rates of $75 - 100/hour, you're looking at $750-1000 for labor plus parts, if you're paying someone to do it.
Lars
Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 470
Likes: 0
That all depends on how thorough of a job you're doing, and what all is in the "kit."
If you're going to sandblast, clean and paint all of the suspension components as part of the rebuild, the job could take a couple of days. If you're simply dropping the front end, knocking all the bushings and ball joints out of it and pressing in new stuff with new replacement tie rods and idler arm, you can do the whole job in about 6 hours, assuming you're using a lift and have good/proper power tools. Add to that time the cost for an alignment, and you're up in the 10-hour range for labor. At common shop rates of $75 - 100/hour, you're looking at $750-1000 for labor plus parts, if you're paying someone to do it.
Lars
If you're going to sandblast, clean and paint all of the suspension components as part of the rebuild, the job could take a couple of days. If you're simply dropping the front end, knocking all the bushings and ball joints out of it and pressing in new stuff with new replacement tie rods and idler arm, you can do the whole job in about 6 hours, assuming you're using a lift and have good/proper power tools. Add to that time the cost for an alignment, and you're up in the 10-hour range for labor. At common shop rates of $75 - 100/hour, you're looking at $750-1000 for labor plus parts, if you're paying someone to do it.
Lars
