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Originally Posted by BlackWorksInc
Cam Seals on the V8's tend to leak more on the VVTi equipped vehicles ('05-'08) and those are basically a 10hr job requiring partial disassembly of the camshafts to replace them. You don't see the older non-VVTi ones leak that much but they're also easier to replace when you're doing a timing belt.
In general for things like shocks, brakes, valve cover gaskets, etc. doing them in pairs is usually the best way to go.
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That's what I had seen in terms of the labor on it. And disassembling a cam shaft is beyond my DIY guts. Timing belts I can do, but it gets much more complicated than that and I'm drifting into mechanic territory.
Basically planning on about an 1800$ service to get timing belt and cam shaft seals replaced, as my sneaking suspicion is that if the cam seals are leaking, there is oil on the timing belt, which is all kinds of bad juju.
