head gasket

[Egg_Shen]

95 Civic DX
I'm getting my car fixed, it has a blown head gasket. Is this a common thing? and what would cause it? If found out about it cause the car would overheat....

[sparq]

Headgasket sucks - get ready to spend a ton of money on it for a cheap ass part!

[Egg_Shen]

NOOOOOOoooeeessss!!!!

[sparq]

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[Egg_Shen]

what would blow it? I kinda wanna prevent it in the future if I can.

I drive miss Daisy so I don't punch the car very much

[Miataracer]

a lot of things could cause it... most likely you had a sever overheat sometime shortly before it blew. if thats the case the head could have warped slightly

[michaelsd16c]

so If you have a overheationg problem yer saying thats it's a blown head? Well my car has been overheating for a while but it only happens when i stop at a light or stop sign. But once I start moving the overheating stops and go's to normal. And yes I check and replaced the thermostat,fan switch and coolant temp switch. But for some reason my fan won't kick in till

[michaelsd16c]

sorry.
my fan won't kick in till 215f and that's overheating. I check the fan switch to see if it was working and it turn on when I bypass it. Oh I have a C&R alum radiator. Do you think that it can be the water pump. As for the vacum press it read 21psi and the helms says thats fine. The bottom line is that I think I have poor circulation of coolant because the resirve tank gose full of coolant. never go's back down to level of max. also it never overflows.I use 50/50.

[Egg_Shen]

update!!


gasket was warped and had to be fixed 1000$

but it was under extended warrenty 200$ no tax

the timing belt had to be done too cause I'm 143k and it should be done at 100k so that is 144$

so 344 instead of 1144$

good thing I got warrenty, it's almost paid for itself.

anyone have good warrenty stories?