I've been in the market for a c63 for a few months. Ideally looking at facelift but my budget is only stretching to the early facelifts and estates under 30k are thin on the ground. I'm tempted to look at a few pre-facelifts. Does anyone know the cost of the head bolt job?
C63 head bolt replacement?
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LondonViking
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I would assume you should be able to find one with head bolts replaced. Wasn't it an KDM ?
Lee C63
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It depends which route you go down.
If you replace the bolts with ARP studs you can do it one at a time (therefore no heads coming off)....this is how i did mine.
If you use new style MB bolts then the heads have to come off and new gaskets have to be fitted.
Bearing in mind that the failures are very infrequent and its not just C63s it is all M156 engines that fall under a certain serial number.
Hope that helps
If you replace the bolts with ARP studs you can do it one at a time (therefore no heads coming off)....this is how i did mine.
If you use new style MB bolts then the heads have to come off and new gaskets have to be fitted.
Bearing in mind that the failures are very infrequent and its not just C63s it is all M156 engines that fall under a certain serial number.
Hope that helps
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Wasn't it any engine under #60658 that could be affected. I'm sure that is the number John quoted sometime back?
Lee C63
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You need special tooling to lock the camshaft. But if your competent and confident then I dare say it could be.
However, I only know of two places that have done it
One in Birmingham and the other just outside Newcastle
