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Hmm looks like it's a professional job then. I'll get a good look at it later in the week, it doesn't look too difficult to remove though.
Thanks for your help Aidan.

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Thank's for the quick response, I'm having a bit of trouble locating the pinion bearing, there's no mention in the haynes book...could you elaborate a little bit more for me, please.

Hi, I hope someone can help. I'm having a very odd problem with Claude (1983,1.9 petrol, 4 speed, Transporter) When I select reverse all is fine, he goes backwards as he should, but when I depress the clutch the back wheels lock up. First time this happened I thought i'd hit something. Anyone else h...

He didn't take the engine out either. If this is the typical amount of time for this job, then it's fine. What I'm hoping for is for someone to say how long it took them to do one, without any hiccups and for others to say how long with various problems. hopefully some one who has done a few of thes...

Yes I do, My van is in the shop, it took 8 hrs to get the heads off, bearing in mind the head studs were under torqued so they were no problem, one head was a "buggar " to get off and he only snapped one bolt on the exhaust, so had to re drill and tap that one, but now he say's another 8 h...

How long to put it back together?

That a fair comment, but lets assume nothing goes wrong.

I have a 1983 Transporter1.9 petrol , how long roughly, should it take to replace the head gaskets? I'd appreciate an educated estimate of time on this please.