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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ View Post
Weird, are mechanics getting less-skilled over time? My book in 1998 showed 16-hours for clutch-job and most times I did it in about 10 hrs. I found that it's actually faster to remove the engine for a clutch job than to go from the back and remove the tranny & torque-tube.
16-hours book time is for the NA cars.

The turbo cars with the 2-piece crossover pipe have a book time of 20 hours and the one-piece crossover pipe makes it 24 hours.

A mechanic who knows what he or she is doing can do it faster. Looking it up, the actual charged time for the clutch replacement on my '86 951 (one-piece crossover, book time 24 hours) was 17.5 hours.
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