New head gasket and bolts, mill head flat, drive it another 200k.

do you know an approx price on this?

assuming i can do the head gasket and bolts on my own, just send the head out to get milled flat?

thanks for all the info guys btw

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Look up a head gasket and bolts

Figure in $20 for a few cans of brake parts cleaner or contact cleaner etc.

Probably $50-$100 to have the head machined flat.

I always suggest having someone with you when you do your first head gasket.. It can be tricky, and make sure you buy a decent torque wrench.. I've had friends have catastrophic failure from under torquing because some fuckwad decided to leave the wrench set to 90 ft lbs for a month.

100% positive it's oil? I've seen some shit in the radiator that looked like oil and it was an idiot using some nasty stop leak shit.

well i doubt it's mud, which is what i thought it was at first (being that i offroad in some nasty dusty shit all the time) but its got the texture of oil so...




i'd have a local shop do it for like 1.5 hours of labor, they hook it up every time i go there.

I'd just flush the coolant system and see what happens. You never checked the coolant to begin with so no telling what's in there. You losing engine oil?

very very slowly, but its a 1991 toyota pickup, i expect it to burn a little too.

Who knows what has happened to this thing in its first 20 years he didn't own it. Heads are typically a weaker metal than the block, so they will get damaged first. TypicAlly how such events would go.
Sure you could measure it. But in my honest opinion. I'd drop it off aNd grt it professionally checked out. They won't mill it if not necessary. And tthese things have to be in spec down to the thousands of an inch.


I think I paid 200 bucks to get ny 4 banger head serviced. Pressure tested, and they said they took very little off. This was my first hg job, and I've got 40k km clocked since complete.

This post was edited by IB0T on Aug 6 2015 07:27am