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by **Luke28** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:49 pm

Never had a clutch done before so just wanted to know roughly how much i would be looking at for labour. going to get clutch, plate, thrust bearing replaced and flywheel machined. and most likely seals.

Any advice will be great!!

Cheers -Luke

by **Ae92typeX** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:57 pm

assuming its the car in your pic, but may wish to confirm that as labour will depend what on

by **Luke28** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:07 pm

Yeah sorry its a levin 4age 20v silvertop

by **GTCRSHR** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:26 pm

have you had a quote from toyota to do it ?

by **Ae92typeX** » Mon May 28, 2007 5:33 pm

so are you buying all the bits first, or just going to ask for them all to be done?
Its been some time since I paid someone to do a clutch for me, but the last one I paid for (on an ae92 so basically same job)cost me ~$300 all up from a small shop. At the time, toyota quoted me ~$550 for it (clutch, flywheel skim, bearing)

by **d1 mule** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:17 pm

my flat mate works at toyota in chch, they charge $70 an hour plus parts. another mechanic mate said its about 4-5 hours to do a FWD clutch, he works at a small garage and usually charge out at $50 an hour+

by **deaf_rattle** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:40 pm

the last fwd clutch job i did (ae92 fxgt with silvertop 20v) cost me $200 in parts (new exedy clutch kit and second hand 20v flywheel) got the flywheel machined for free. i did the clutch in 5 hours. that was my first 20v clutch job and i mucked about some trying to find out the correct torque settings and had to go to repco to get some bits and pieces.

So realistically it took me 4hours to do. I would imagine a proper mechanic should be able to do it in 3-4 hours.

so yeah, times that by cost per hour

by **RED TOP MR 2** » Mon May 28, 2007 6:53 pm

it will cost around $500(including parts) without any unknown snags i think.

by **Luke28** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:14 pm

Thanks for the info guys. Gona buy the parts myself and take it to someone to do the work. Think Warick says toyota clutch kit is $200. just gotta get rear main seal. So ill just call around a few places and find a good price.

Cheers people!!!

by **Mr Revhead** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:55 pm

yeah bout $200 delivered.
its a 3 hour job
add flywheel skim and its all under $500
labour rates can vary a LOT due to location..... eg us (in the centre of welly) charge $88 ph, where as mr hicktown grease monkey may charge $45

by **Cicak** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:06 pm

I'm getting my clutch done in a few weeks time, got a quote for around $300. It's in South Auckland. I supply my own clutch, (thanks warwick) and getting the thrust bearing done too.

by **drtydog** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:04 pm

cost me $565 just for the labour + manual trans flush and fluid, flywheel grind ect

that was a sw20 mr2 tho

by **AceSniper** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:17 pm

acouple of years back when I was lazy I paid $160 labour (places i pm'd you Luke28)

by **JIZRAG** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:40 pm

4 hours would be a fair time, can be done quicker but yea a workshop will always quote max amount, Ive done several 20valve clucths in around the 3 hour mark and i know PRYMAL can do them in even less.

OMG so shiny! · by **Dell'Orto** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:09 pm

Just be glad its not a euro...was talking to a customer who works for a Euro dealership today, their charge out rate is $80. He said one large dealership in Auckland charges something like $100+ per hour

by **Luke28** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:19 pm

AceSniper wrote:acouple of years back when I was lazy I paid $160 labour (places i pm'd you Luke28)

Yeah ill give them a call during the week cheers!!

Warwick if your out there somewhere.. you emailed me $550 for a clutch kit??? was that a mistype?? ticker mised a few beats when i seen that!!