Head resurfacing

What are you guys paying to get heads resurfaced and all work needed for headgaskets. Just looking for an average before I go out to find a machinist

how many miles on the heads ?
if they are not off the truck and/or have not been inspected yet you better budget for the worst case and then you will be safe IMO

Fair enough. Truck is running fine as is an does not have blown head gaskets but I plan to pull in the next month to do studs

Less than $500 for surfacing, valve seals, mag

I've paid $190 - $230 for MagnaFlux and surfacing.

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190-230 per head I assume.

Preston_leslie said:

190-230 per head I assume.

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Per set.

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Done right with a full valve job, stem height corrected for the surfacing, $800-1000 for the pair.

$650 to $1,300, done correctly with valve job, corrected height and on the high end is if it needs valve stem job also.

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samgoto96 said:

$650 to $1,300, done correctly with valve job, corrected height and on the high end is if it needs valve stem job also.

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How important or needed is a valve job? The quote I got to have my truck done it says pressure tested and machined flat. As far as I know my truck is bonestock 140k miles and healthy. 2004 BTW.

Corys6.0 said:

How important or needed is a valve job? The quote I got to have my truck done it says pressure tested and machined flat. As far as I know my truck is bonestock 140k miles and healthy. 2004 BTW.

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Very important in my opinion. Almost every head has to get 6+ thousandths shaved off of it and that just puts your valves that much closer to your Pistons without the proper valve job.

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Now tell me the difference here. Just called a local shop and they get 320.00 for magnaflux, clean, valve job, and resurfacing. And then I called ucf and they get 1950.00

Preston_leslie said:

Now tell me the difference here. Just called a local shop and they get 320.00 for magnaflux, clean, valve job, and resurfacing. And then I called ucf and they get 1950.00

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Don't know the shops or the situation, but there are some machine shops around me that I'll never use again regardless of how cheap something is. I'll pay more for quality work.... I've seen too many heads, blocks, cranks come back with issues or have to be sent back out.

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I think the UCF head includes hardened seats and guides .

UCF does very good work don't they?