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Old 05-03-2009, 10:34 AM
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Re: broken radiator? or bad headgasket?

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Originally Posted by TomsSVX View Post
yes, but I have seen it before. It all depends on where the break is in the gasket. Commonly it breaks just outside of the compression ring in the head gasket and leaks compression into the coolant. Other times it can break between oil and coolant jackets and mix the two into eachother or just one into another. Never the less, the gasket is broken or lifted and there is still an issue that requires the repair.

A Headgasket repair is almost all labor. The parts are not terribly expensive but it takes several hours to do it right

Tom
any price quote for labor since you know what would be a fair price. thank you...

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