Head Gasket Go Bye Bye

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Head Gasket Go Bye Bye

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Guys... the head gasket has gone bye bye on cylinder 3 ! ! so the question is what do I do?

I have the new head gasket, timing belt kit inc tensioner ... oil and anti freeze...

But I simply cannot be arsed to do it.... and my local garage want £650 to do it... I'm not paying that ! for £650 I could get another bloody car ! so what do I do.... you guys pick and let me know what you think..

I'm just fed up of working on piss poor froggy shite engineering ! ! !


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Post by michaeljclark »

Niz

I know how much you love that car - I'm in the same situation: to fix or not to fix

£650 seems a lot (my 406 cost me less than that)

But you really seem to love that car when you post about it - and you have(?) plans for it...

And you already have the bits - if you do it and save cash then you get the satifying knowledge of a job well done - if not then well who's to argue with your decision....

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Post by GeordieBoy »

Get it fixed and buy my Alloys for £450. :)
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Post by michaeljclark »

GeordieBoy wrote:Get it fixed and buy my Alloys for £450. :)
Winner - AND niz saves 200 notes :cheesy:
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Post by xplosiv »

HI,

How much would it be if you got all the parts yourself and then got the gragre to do the labor, as they seem to but a huge mark up on parts.

ney way £650 is a little expensive after all i paid £250 for timing belt kit inc tensioner ... oil and anti freeze inc labor at a pug dealer

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Andy

Edit: they also but a new water pump on for £60
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Post by Foghorn Leghorn »

Fix it man!!

Its only a 5 minute job........apparently :wink: (he he, getting a hang of this winking lark)

Seriously though, you've got all the bits, just set yourself a day and get stuck in, once you get started on it you'll have it done in no time.

I know what you mean about not being arsed though, I had a seized brake piston on the car for 4 months and the replacement sat in my shed ready. I just pushed myself to get on with it and had the whole system bled and caliper changed within 1 hour. I know yours is a much more involved job but the same applies.

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Thanks guys.... I know where your all coming from, but this will mean I've spent the last three weekends working on my motor.....lol

Dont worry different things each time... :D

and the MOT is due on the 22nd....

The labour is circa £450 inc vat at the local french car specialists...

The only problem I have doing it myself is when putting the timing belt back on..... peugeot use a calibrated tensioning device so you know when its set right... so even if I do it myself I still have to take it to Peugeot to get it set properly... :cry:

Which obviously means like still paying for an hours labour ! @ £45 even that is like wrong to me !

The plans I had for the car was to buy the 280+ engine set up from HiFlowheads just because I'm too lazy to work on the engine myself... well that and my limited space for such a task!

May wait for my bro to get back from his hols to see if I can use his garage / workbench and engine holder to do a spare engine in my free time !

But what to do ! what to do......

I've spilt blood for this car... dripped sweat and ALMOST been brought to tears by it ! ! lol but its draining me of everything... like a wife does ! you guys know what I mean ! lol :shock: :shock: :shock:

Not in a good way either lol !
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Ive a nice 90k mile engine on my drive.....
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I know... but thats for a project and it also has a water leak lol
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Post by jason j »

Don't know you dude but fix it, biggest regret of mine was a car I had put alot of work into ending up scrapped.

Go to the stage where I had two engines two gearboxs 4 sets of brakes etc etc, really wish I had stuck with it now.

If you can do it yourself do it!!!.

Can you find anoter car in as good a condtion as yours for the cost of reapair?? has yours got any other imminent jobs to do on it??
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Well for MOT it needs Lower balljoint on drivers side and handbrake adjusting as the new shoes are bedded in and so not as tight as before !

Thats all I can think of at the moment that could stop it from passing an MOT !
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Post by jason j »

personally I'd sort it getting a mate who is a mechanic to help out if you have one just to check over the work.

good luck whatever you decide :cheesy:
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Fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Foxy »

Niz406 wrote:I know... but thats for a project and it also has a water leak lol
Water leak was 3 large holes in the rad!
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Post by mjb »

do what you can yourself, then buy the parts and hand them to the ripoff merchants to do the rest?
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