Well my baby goes into the shop tomorrow - $80 bucks to take a look at my car and tell me exactly what is wrong. Although I already know its headgasket - this morning I found oil in the coolant and vice versa :( Guess I'll be without the car for a little as I'm getting Chrysler to fix the headgasket and timing belt at the same time..... hopefully it should be only gone for a day??

Stupid cars, sometimes ya love 'em and sometimes you absolutely hate them!!!

Any precautions I should take after I get the car back - like drive it super nice and what not?? Or doesn't it matter?

Should feel like a completely new car when it gets back and run nice - at least I hope :)

i dont think it should matter, but i still wouldnt romp on it the first day.. unless a honda wants some lol

Shouldn't have to worry about romping on it. Headgaskets don't need a break in.


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as long as they are in there, you might wanna have your waterpump changed.
its okay to get on it afterwards. after my head rebuild i drove 2 blocks to the gas station, filled my tank up, and hauled ass. it won't hurt anything.

Cars ready tomorrow morning, went in this morning - end result => new headgasket, timing belt and water pump = $1700 buck repair bill :(

Expensive hobby, but ya gotta love it ;)

How many miles do you have on your car??



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>Cars ready tomorrow morning, went in this morning - end
>result => new headgasket, timing belt and water pump = $1700
>buck repair bill :(
>
>Expensive hobby, but ya gotta love it ;)

the last time i had some body work on my car, they didn't do the tension on my timing belt right(even though i let them use my manual) and it slipped. it bent the intake valves up, so i said fuck this, from now on i'm gonna do all the work on my car myself. i spent $775 on the repairs and got all this stuff:

head gasket set-$90
water pump-$40
head bolts-$30
timing belt-$40
UDP-$85
spark plugs-$5
CAI-$40
valves-$140
valve job-$160
oil-$35
oil filter-$10
motor mount inserts-$20
jeep TB-$60
belts-$30
coolant-$10
labor-$0

what i'm trying to say is if you do it yourself you will have alot more money for other things.

Yeah I know, its just my dad really didn't want me doing this with some of the local DSM guys - he'd rather me pay :D

I got 90,000 KMS on the car, so under 60,000 Miles!! :(

you should of had your dad pay so you could put your $1700 into a turbo