Series Iii Clutch.

Need clutch fitting in my series 3 petrol. Been asking at local Manchester Landrover garages regarding prices. Cheapest £295 if I remove seat boxes, floor plates etc. They fit clutch and I put everything back together.
Seems a bit excessive to me.
Anybody enlighten me or point me to a garage/mechanic I can trust?

Cheers

So wot do they do then?

to be honest once you have removed the several thirty year old nuts n bolts from the seat bench and floor the rest is straight forward.

Drop both shafts connected and whip the box out and hey presto !!!!

i did it and im a clown !!!

295 seems a tap steep, coz youl av all the knuckle scrapes n bruises.

Thanks chaps. Thought he was taking the p*** also. Stockport garage off my list of nice guys for sure. Just goes to show. Turn up looking a certain way or type (suit and tie for me for work) and people misjudge yer pockets. Haven't got a pot to p*** in truth be known.
Would be nice to get some comparisons on typical garage jobs and have a 'name and shame' section. Wonder what the legal implications would be?

Will have a go at clutch myself after studying the Haynes (are they any good?). Must be better manuals out there surely.

Thanks once again

my local garage tryed to charge me nearly 400 notes to do the clutch on my saab 900 one of the few cars that you can do without moving the gearbox i bought a pressure bleeder bled the fluid through and am still driving it 4 years later and the joke is there called economy saab

Had some replies to e-mails for clutch job. It gets worse! £620 was the worst and £320 best.
Bloody hell! I'm retraining as a clutch specialist (That's CLUTCH not CROTCH).

I cannot see how they justify the bill. Can some mechanic enlighten me.
How much an hour do they charge? How long should it take given that they know what they're doing (?) and they have all the kit to do it.

I always believed that Landrover 'enthusiasts' would look after each other, garages included. Especially the independents'.

I obviously live in an other era/world.

Sign of the times?

diesel dale said:

to be honest once you have removed the several thirty year old nuts n bolts from the seat bench and floor the rest is straight forward.

Drop both shafts connected and whip the box out and hey presto !!!!

i did it and im a clown !!!

295 seems a tap steep, coz youl av all the knuckle scrapes n bruises.

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didn't yours have a handbrake ?

if they know what they're doing , the book time is 8 manhours. if yer reet good yer can do it in 4 hours on yer own.

so if YOU are gonna do it you wanna leave a weekend clear fer it

Will be doing it myself. Over a weekend I think.
Clutch is juddering though, so it must have oil on it from g/box? I assume it's an oil seal. Can't make it out in the Haynes. Anyone enlighten and give an idea of the oil seal I need?
Is it simply a flick it out seal and replace with new?

Thanks

it could be yer rear crank seal, unless yer can get a bit on yer finger and have a sniff you probably wint know till yer take the box off.
if its g/box oil yer can't mistake the smell.

yes slob it did have a handbrake, as it was a hell of a lot easier to disconnect compared to the flooring panels etc i forgot to mention.

If it's a crank seal is that easy to do?
Or is it a bloody pain and/or expensive?
Give me easy instructions I'm not mechanically minded

If gearbox seal I assume it's pop in thing

Thanks