Clutch/Radiator cost to replace?

Lukas1 · Post by **Lukas1** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:05 pm

Hey guys, well bought my Prelude, everything is dandy, drive about 10 miles and the needle starts to creep, stop car to look and boom, leaking by the radiator. A lot of swearing and I gingerly creep back home and on the way, put it in gear, crunching noise, push the clutch down, not noise, dab the throttle in neutral, no noise so think the release bearing is shagged.

Any idea on the cost of the parts for the above and how much I will pay roughly at a garage - ie how many hours?

Thanks

Lukas

Post by **Merlin** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:13 pm

I have no idea on the clutch but the radiator is a piece of body lemonade. £43 for a new rad and will take about 30-45 mins to swap over, refill and bleed

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-ACCORD- ... 416303bec0

Lukas1 · Post by **Lukas1** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:23 pm

Cheers Merlin, have seen the clutch kits for about £80ish online so just need to work out the labour for that

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:46 pm

clutch is 4.5 hours according to autodata

Lukas1 · Post by **Lukas1** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:56 pm

S*************T

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:57 pm

in real life things tend to take longer than the book time

Lukas1 · Post by **Lukas1** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:01 pm

Thanks for that

lol

lxstuart · Post by **lxstuart** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:07 pm

No, 4.5 hours to fit a clutch sounds about right.

But then you've got to put everything back on the car

Lukas1 · Post by **Lukas1** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:40 pm

Jesus is it that complicated on a Prelude?!?!?!

jozefsan · Post by **jozefsan** » Fri Mar 16, 2012 6:22 pm

its bit fiddly job