Head Gasket repair question
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Head Gasket repair question
Hello everyone and thanks for looking at my post.
I've got a '93 Civic with the 1.5L motor. The head gasket went out on it last summer and I took it to a shop to be repaired. Six months later, here I am again. the mechanic who performed the "fix" in the first places insists that it cannot be the head gasket blown again. Although it is ejecting coolant from the reservoir tank and trying to overheat just as it did before. I am somewhat mechanically inclined and I've decided to tackle this job myself. If you want something done right, do it yourself right? Or pay out the nose and I'm broke. My main question is this... I've noticed on Ebay some people sell remanned Cylinder Heads for $300. I am thinking this could be a decent option since I'm going to most certainly need to get the existing head inspected and milled at a machine shop anyway. I'm just looking for opinions on that idea, things to watch out for, don't even think about it... etc. Thanks much!
I've got a '93 Civic with the 1.5L motor. The head gasket went out on it last summer and I took it to a shop to be repaired. Six months later, here I am again. the mechanic who performed the "fix" in the first places insists that it cannot be the head gasket blown again. Although it is ejecting coolant from the reservoir tank and trying to overheat just as it did before. I am somewhat mechanically inclined and I've decided to tackle this job myself. If you want something done right, do it yourself right? Or pay out the nose and I'm broke. My main question is this... I've noticed on Ebay some people sell remanned Cylinder Heads for $300. I am thinking this could be a decent option since I'm going to most certainly need to get the existing head inspected and milled at a machine shop anyway. I'm just looking for opinions on that idea, things to watch out for, don't even think about it... etc. Thanks much!
#2
Repeat head gasket failures are not unusual. The block or head could be warped, the new gasket not properly installed (mostly that is due to failure to clean ALL of the old gasket off) or the bolts not properly torqued. Or there could have been overheating for an unrelated reason.
#3
x2 repeat headgasket jobs means that the mechanic skipped a few checks. I think OP is taking a risk that it will blow again unless he gets flatness checked out. If coolant was boiling out of the reservoir I'm betting you had hot spots on the block.
#7
If coolant does not flow out under those conditions i would inspect the radiator cap itself check to see if center piece cracked off
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