bye headgasket

[deathtrigga]

don't know if this belongs in this section but there goes my p5's headgasket. This explains my starting problems for the past week. Well its a nice birthday gift to receive . put a long white cloth inside the combustion chamber pulled out the nice white cloth, and it magically changed colors from white to green. inside is soaked with coolant =/

[Turpro]

[FamiliaGT]

Well hey. Those 2.0l cant be hard to replace a headgasket in. I replaced mine in my B6T with some help in 13 hours. With a lunch brake, and brakes to go inside and warm up. But i also had a turbo to remove which was most of my problem, plus I replaced my crank seals while i was at it, so i removed the oil pan, which you shouldnt have to.

Did you overheat at all? If you didnt once overheat, and when you take your head off and everything looks fine, and the surface is flat with a streight edge or on a very streight metal table, then i wouldnt even machine it or reseat the valves. Just replace the gasket and button her up. But if you find problems, then it might turn into something bigger.

[deathtrigga]

yeah i did over heat a couple times but i don't know if the temperature reading H is considered overheating or if you actually start to see some smoke or something coming from the engine bay is considered overheating then no that never happened.

[therieldeal]

... have the head decked

[deathtrigga]

is getting the head decked just cleaning the surface of the head in order to give it a good gasket seal?

[MD323]

no its actually machining the head to make sure its straight and true

[deathtrigga]

Anyone have any price estimates or ballpark ranges as to how much that usually costs?

[nos92mx3]

Depends on the shop, ive had mine hot tanked pressure tested and machined for 100$

[deathtrigga]

hmm i see

[wheresthericego]

headgasket is easy on a FS actually a lot of stuff is easy on the FS

[Shag]

Yeah I did a whole head swap on my car with a bunch of new stuff as well and it only took 2 days(With lots and lots of cigs/food breaks hahah) good luck with it!

[FE3-323]

shoudl be easy enough, buy a ebay gasket kit & take it into the machine shop

[deathtrigga]

did that already got a felpro gasket set. redid it something wasn't right motor was tapping considerably and the timing wasn't right, i found 20k motor and trans so i just bought them and swapped them in called it a day. I still have the old motor and trans im thinking about trying to sell it or something after i try reparing it

[deathtrigga]

no i think its easier on a bp, the fs you have to remove the cams... the bp you can leave the cams right in there