price for head r/r

Seems a shade high to me, marina's rates are on the high side compared to automotive and a lot of that has to do with the dufficulty getting to the motor to work on it. Maybe Woody could give us a ball park figure on the labor/hour rate that marine mechanics charge. But it seems like it would take about 5-6 hours to replace the heads on a V6 I/O application. It took me about an hour to pull the heads off of mine a couple of years ago but inboards are a lot easier to work on unless it's a v-drive then they are pretty much the same. I would say $800 would be more inline.

Then again it depends on who the person was as well, was it a buddy, their relative, good neighboor, or joe blow down the street. My general rule for a close friend is that they supply the beer and buy any tool if I need one to get the job done, they buy the parts and are the go-for for the project and after it's all done and they offer me some cash then I might take some of it or all of it. Because when it's all said and done what comes around goes around and they will remember that time that you went out of your way to help them out.

I would make a couple of calls to local marina's and ask what their labor rate is and try and figure out how much time you spent working on the motor and go from there, playing go-for and everthing else is going to bump the price up. Since you did all of the running then 1k doesn't seem out of line, Call around and see what the car guy's charge to replace a set a heads and what his nornmal mechanic would have charged, there would be a premium for onsite repair and if the guy doesn't flinch with the 1k then your ok, put check it out a little in case the guy cripes, did you talk about a figure before you started?