Dealer cost for head gasket and valve job?
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Ask around, find a shop that folks trust and more so - are able to handle the task. There are not many head gasket jobs getting done these days unless its a performance shop. Engines just don't need head gaskets anymore.
Shops today would rather drop a short block in anyway. That way they are not liable for other issues that may arise from a slipped sleeve or cracked block.
A valve job is a valve job. A couple hundred at any machine shop. The garage would send out to one of these places anyway.
Best of Luck.
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To the OP, one more vote for never going to the dealer. Spend some time finding who the local LR techs are and get more than one quote. It's pretty common work and they should know off hand how many hours they'll need. Talk to guys in local LR or off road clubs and see where they go for major repair work.
I was quoted just yesterday for head gasket and valve job at $1,800 at my independent Rover shop. '98 Disco I w/ 147k
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That's if you can find a local indie LR shop. Again, not many shops around that do head gasket jobs outside of the performance realm. Even adding on the indie LR guys, it's still not a lot.
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It was easy and didn't cost me a dime (scrap from work was used to make the "kit").
BTW, the piston stayed in the engine, it didn't "blow out" of it.