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Originally Posted by mtbtim
I also find it hard to believe. I know I'm not the fastest mechanic but I'm not the slowest either. There's no way I could pull off this job in 2 hours and guarantee I didn't make a mistake and screw something up. Hell, doing a thorough job of cleaning off the surface for the new water pump alone takes around 15-20 minutes. Either this guy is really freaking good at turning wrenches or he hasn't exactly spoken the truth on how long it took.
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I suppose there's a few things one could do to "shave time" off.
1) Not having skids on.
2) breaking your top cover so you don't have to put the top radatior hose off and you can just remove it.
3) No A/C belt
The work isn't incredibly hard but draining the coolant and filling the coolant alone is going to take like 15-30 minutes.
Also I typically will cycle the engine multiple times (5+) to make sure the timing belt hasn't skipped a tooth or etc when setting the tensioner.
I'd imagine if you do nothing with the water pump and coolant then you can shorten the work up quite a bit and it would only make sense to do so if you've just replaced the water pump and need to replace a cam or crank seal.