Hi there every one,
Please could one of you with "Rave" look up the time allowed to exchange the flywheel on a TD5 Discovery?

I've changed my computer recently and have not yet been able to read my copy. Garage who have done the job of replacing the gearbox and while at it replaced the flywheel, are charging 60 hours!

Any advice welcome, keep well all.
Gordon

gjmac said:

Hi there every one,
Please could one of you with "Rave" look up the time allowed to exchange the flywheel on a TD5 Discovery?

I've changed my computer recently and have not yet been able to read my copy. Garage who have done the job of replacing the gearbox and while at it replaced the flywheel, are charging 60 hours!

Any advice welcome, keep well all.
Gordon

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Can't get to my Rave at the mo either, but any Landy main dealer will tell you. I'd a thort.

gjmac said:

Hi there every one,
Please could one of you with "Rave" look up the time allowed to exchange the flywheel on a TD5 Discovery?

I've changed my computer recently and have not yet been able to read my copy. Garage who have done the job of replacing the gearbox and while at it replaced the flywheel, are charging 60 hours!

Any advice welcome, keep well all.
Gordon

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That's not an information available in RAVE there are labour operation manuals but i dont have for D2, in comparison for a Defender a clutch or transmission replacement is 6 hours

I know sod all about discos but a week and half seems a bit excessive.

My mechanic with his apprentice repaced the whole lot(flywheel, clutch, crank seal) in one full day (lunch and smoking breaks included) i delivered the vehicle at 8am and collected it at 7pm but he doesnt charge based on hours, he asked the equivalent of around 200 quid

gjmac said:

Hi there every one,
Please could one of you with "Rave" look up the time allowed to exchange the flywheel on a TD5 Discovery?

I've changed my computer recently and have not yet been able to read my copy. Garage who have done the job of replacing the gearbox and while at it replaced the flywheel, are charging 60 hours!

Any advice welcome, keep well all.
Gordon

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Hi, I know the FRT (flat rate times) set by manufactures for jobs is almost impossible to stick, if you were doing a job & come across a seized bolt or two that may snap & then require drilling, if it was on a warranty job say, it would be down to the customer to pay the extra labour for sorting the snapped bolts as the manufacture would say the seized/snapped bolts weren't their fault so you only got paid for the time they set for the job. Lots of dealers take this on the chin to keep the customer happy ! Having said that it sounds very excessive unless they've come across lots of problems. Like it's been said you could ask a LR dealer for the times set for doing those jobs. Best of luck.

Oh wow, how loooong ,

again I don’t know anything about D2 but on my old series 3 I changed a clutch in 2 x days on my own, that was my first time and the hardest thing I found was scrapping off the sealant from the floor and seat base , lol

At the time when my back was fine , lifted the gearbox back with a piece of strapping round my neck to just lift it back enough to get the clutch out

Also the engine ran very rough , so in my wisdom changed the whole exhaust as I thought that was it , great fun as had to jack the landy up even higher to get the old one out and new one in , exhaust had leaks everywhere , nope, was the points, lol, taught me a lesson but at least it had a nice shiny new exhaust

sorry I’m waffling as per usual

Sorry but 60 hours is feckin ridiculous. I expect they got the decimal point in the wrong place. More like 6.00 hrs. maybe times two blokes.
Every time the clutch sticks on my kit car, I have to "drop" the engine and gearbox on the floor, then separate them to get to the clutch to free it off and no, no other of the normal ways of doing it work , I tried them all believe me!
This involves removing the inlet/exhaust manifold and then/at the same time the twin carbs, to get the exhaust off.
As I have no lift I have to use two winch type things and winch the front of the vehicle up high enough to allow me to pull it out from underneath.
I can do this and put it all back together in about a day and a half.
And yes they should charge you the proper hours and then extra if they REALLY hit a problem.
A Renault garage once charged me extra for "desiezing" a seized Macpherson strut, or the Frog equivalent, on the front of a Renault 17. All i wanted them to do was change the shockers . The bill was a feckin shocker!

I can do it on my drive in a day. Basic tools and a gearbox lift. That’s putting a new box in with all the bits swapped over too. Sounds like they’re trying to price themselves out of a job. Try getting in touch with RCM 4x4 if you’re near York.