Head Gasket blown what should I do (please read inside)?

Now I have a car that is on the verge of having a head gasket blowm. (based on what the dealer saw when he was inspecting my car) I dont believe them, anyways my question is If I replace the head gasket, should I expect anything else to break down? and Should I even change the head gasket? The car has 120,000 miles on it. It is a toyota made in 1992. I dont want to sell it because It has a lot of sentimental value. I love my car more than any hot girl i can fall for. Please list what you think I should do and why. Thank youHead Gasket blown what should I do (please read inside)?If you love it spend the $1,000 to fix it but get a second opinion first on the repair.
Head Gasket blown what should I do (please read inside)?
Nice sentiment i haven't found my love car yet i like how u have. Now try to change the oil with high mileage oil that fills in gaps and cracks, this should give u more time to save or figure out what you want to do. Second option is to see, hear, and smell. see, white smoke coming from under the hood or over heating on the temperature gauge, hear, a rough or uneasy ride last smell your engine bay after about 30 to an hour of driving if u smell like a thick oily smell then its time for a new gasket. and when getting a new gasket try to get a longer lasting one that allows for more heat to escape but not enter a steel gasket with rubber lining will last forever but for better performance u can get a copper gasket with a carbon fiber lining its lighter and takes heat better. and if u don't fix this with in 3 to 4 months of any of the symptoms u may seis the engine making it unable to run to much heat will pretty much weld the pistons to the engine block.
Head Gasket blown what should I do (please read inside)?
first,stay away from that car dealer,he's trying to rip you off.next see a head doctor ain't no car worth that
120,000....that head gasket should still be good. Barely halfway into the typical expected life of a head gasket.





Before you start replacing major internal engine components(Which the head gasket is, complete ***** to access most of the time), run a few tests. Compression test will be revealing, if you get two cylinders low and adjacent, the gasket is leaking between them(Or the head's cracked). A vacuum test may also show some sort of error in the system, but those aren't as conclusive about head gaskets as compression tests are.



Also, WHILE THE ENGINE IS COLD, you can remove the radiator cap and start it. If you see bubbles dribbling out of the radiator, or smell exhaust coming out, your gasket is starting to let go.



You can also look on the dipstick and under the oil fill cap. If you see a milkshake, you have a leak between coolant and water passages. 99.9% of the time, this is a head gasket going out.





Toyota loves aluminum heads, so if it was ever overheated, it's likely the head is warped and causing any issues that masquerade as a head gasket. You'd have to change it anyways, if you have this serviced, as you NEVER re-use a head gasket.



Another symptom is loss of power/torque/fuel economy, hard starting, maybe the engine is cranking easier than it should.





If you get white smoke when the engine is at operating temps, or if those operating temps are higher than normal, COMBINED with a significant coolant habit, you also have a telltale sign of a leak in the gasket. Or a cracked head. Struggling to pass emissions with a high HC reading is also not good, but it's by no means conclusive(A stuck open fuel injector or blown O2 sensor can also cause this in your case).



Remember: the head gasket is a royal pain in the *** to get to, and you shouldn't change it unless you're ABSOLUTELY sure it's blown.



If you elect to change it, now's a great time to do a head job on it. It may not need it, but you'll have the cylinder head off anyways, so you might as well. Besides, the components will be removed prior to the head being inspected for cracks and being milled flat(Which you absolutely must check, a warped head is a frequent cause of a bad head gasket). While yer at it, this is a great time to replace all the gaskets you can get to. Just make sure you know it's actually a head gasket going.





I own a 1985 Ford F150, 4.9L inline six. 260,000 miles. I had a head gasket go over a period of two or three months. Every smptom and test I've described here I performed on my F150. I speak from personal experience here. Also, I changed it in my back yard for roughly 400 bucks, and that's counting the head work. It's possible to DIY if you know what you're doing, but it may take a while. A shop will charge as much for labor as they will for parts, and that's assuming your head isn't cracked. Mine wasn't even significantly warped, Carquest milled it and replaced the valve train. Old engine runs like a top now!





I have the same sentimental attachment to my 500 dollar truck, by the way. :P It was given to me by my dad to fulfill a promise to his dad, now dead. It's never seeing the crusher.
get some more opinions/estimates from other repair shops, the head gasket is either blown or not