Thread: Td5 Clutch/head stuffed!!

Mate! Back up a bit, those prices are making my head spin. Is there someone else up your way that can advise you, before you get heavily committed financially.
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Originally Posted by philthy

I'm up for a clutch repair complete job for approx. $3,000 and now I've just found out the head is stuffed and needs a recon for about the same amount of $. Its a 2000 model,about 160,000ks on it. I've no idea about what options there are available,except to first ask on this site. Its a basically "cant afford to sell her and cant afford to keep her" scenario.Its my third Landy in about 30yrs,so I do like Landy's. Plus heaps of rust that's mainly in all panels. Doors/floor area. The shop has already started the clutch yesterday and the head prob only happened driving 2hrs to the shop. Not made of $ like a lot of people,but wow, what would be a good way around it? Exchange heads? Do up mine? The shop is giving me an itemised quote today,but I'm up for about $6000 with the clutch incl,maybe closer to $7000. Does this sound about right? (ballpark figure?)

Have them pull the head first, if the deck is damaged write it off, I would want to do a head replacement for you.

Without going labour depending on how much work was needed I could easily blow $5k in parts alone depending on how high you wanted to set the quality workman ship bar.

Buying aftermarket parts off of eBay from the UK you could do it for less than $2k in parts, and a quick workshop would run you $1.5-2k in labour to swap the head over and change the clutch. I'd expect about 24 man hours worth of labour for a good job.

If you're strapped for cash, now's the time to have a go yourself.. If you have a mechanically minded mate who drinks beer, that's a start. If he has tools, then you'll need more beer!! Re clutch, its more of the chore of doing it than the difficulty. There's plenty of parts suppliers on here who will supply you with a clutch kit. As for the head, kms and age are about right for early td5's to fail. Plastic dowels will be the fault, and the head will have moved slightly to one side. New head bolts, new gaskets and o rings, and a light skim will be you're expenses. Again, not too hard a job, and you probably have many a member locally show would b able to assist if you ask. A few key things when doing the head, so ask b4 doing!! Re the prices you were quoted... Ouch! Seems very steep to me. There'd be $2500 in labour at approx $100hr over 3 x 8hr days. Price the parts up on line and add 20-40%. This will give u a better idea of the final figure if you really can't/don't want to have a crack at it. Here's a screen shot of a suitable clutch kit. The seller is on here too and is a trusted source. Cheers for now!

And here's you're head gasket kit, complete with bolts and cd manual. Don't know this seller, but the kit seems ok.

Try Ken member Outback one, he wrecks D2s, he just might have a good motor avail.

Re the clutch price, apart from labour they might be quoting for a new dual mass flywheel also. A clutch kit is not that expensive, the rest is labour, if it's your time then labour is not an issue

re the clutch, I agree with sitec, its more of a PITA than the actual difficulty of doing it, I did mine a few months back, and easily saved myself a grand in labour costs alone, but if the shop have already started on it then it might be too late for you to attempt it. As for the head, plenty of better people than me on here will be able to advise you, but I would take blknights advice for a start.