I just got toxic fabs o2 dump and it looks great!. My mechanic said thst installing it would take 5 hours and cost me over 500 dollars. Anyone have advice for me and is it that hard to do? I know what I jphave to do, I've just been busy with a family funeral.

 

It's really not that difficult. You should be able to do it in under 2 hours. If you search around you'll find a few write ups on installing the O2 housing.
The easiest way I found was removing the downpipe, then removing the exhaust manifold. Separate the turbo hot side (carefully) and pull out the hot side with the O2 housing attached. Reverse and assemble. Easy..

 

I got jack stands andeveryything. Idk why they are telling me its so hard to do. Thank youu

 

Tell your mechanic next time he wants to rob you to bring a gun.

 

hahah what??? What shop is this, so no one else goes there...even pulling the radiator, pulling the turbo, bolting the 02 dump to the turbo then reinstalling everything won't take 5 hrs!! Look in the How-To section, there are a couple how tos for installing 02 housings, install is pretty much the same for all of them...some are a little more of a bi*ch to install then others...

 

Where are you located? I could probably recommend shops in your area for installing it if you don't want to yourself...

 

Im in plainvieww new york. I can't see how it would be 500 dollars and a whole day project for them to put the dump in

 

haha...$500 is a joke!.....some shops charge around that for a clutch job..now that is ALOT harder to do....

spray on the pb blaster and tackle this yourself...its really not alot of work today...it may seem overhwhelming at first but you'll be glad in the end. and have $300 in your pocket.

spend $200 on a decent set of tools and have at it...

 

Took me 2hrs to do it. Just gotta remove your downpipe and lower intercooler. Make sure u have some wobbley socks. Makes the job that much easier....

 

Ill be another one to tell u its not gravy. Many problems that are unforeseen can make this difficult. In my case the previous owner didn't use antiseize on anything and im left with a broke bolt in the housing and a ez out broke in that bolt all because they didn't use anti seize. I even pb blasted the thing for a week before doing this. I have been trying to get the bolt out for 3 days now. If not for this one bolt it wouldn have been hard at all but u can just never know before diving in.

 

i just looked at mine and every bolt came out by themselves

 

PB blaster is your friend on a job like this. Whatever shop wants to charge $500 must not work very fast, or charge $200/hour for labor!

I did mine by removing just the LICP and the downpipe. Used some universal joints and it wasn't really that bad. The stock o2 heat shield bolts were the worst to get to IMO

 

If you have a lift and some tools shouldn't take more then 1 hr or two. on the ground maybe 2 or 3 with a lot of nice breaks in between

 

i got the o2 dumped installed, but they did not put the new gasket in so i have an exhaust leakk

 

So they put the stock undivided gasket in??? That sucks...I did that the first time I installed and 02 dump like 3 years ago...I don't even use gaskets on 02 housings anymore, just use that Copper spray on gasket stuff...