Need help Asap

[FasTech]

Alright, I'm supose to be buying a car from a guy I know and he was driving it down to me tonight, about 30min's ago, and the headgasket blew out on it! Now he told me that it would run hot after while, so I though Thermostat or headgasket. Not to bad to fix.. Well anyways it blew out and he's in Macon about 20min's from me.. He said he was gonna take it to some guys house that he knew and his friend was gonna check it out.. He told me that they pulled the oil dipstick and it was kinda milk'e and that when they poured water in the radiator it would shoot back out the resernator on the ratiator. I'm not 100% sure what is wrong with it.. Please help before I go buying something thats gonna cost me aot of money to fix just to have a nice DD. Would a new headgasket and head milling sove the problem???? Thanks in advance Fast-Tech

The car is a 1991 Honda civic hatchback, dx I believe

[Scotsman]

make of said car?

[FasTech]

Oh sorry its a '91 Honda civic Hatchback

[Scotsman]

cheap fix , if you have a lil time and are gettin it for a good deal

[FasTech]

cheap fix , if you have a lil time and are gettin it for a good deal

so whats wrong with it???? With the milk'e oil, that means there's water in the oil correct. So is that not a big problem??? So what excatly would I have to buy to fix it???

[BTEC]

blown headgasket for sure. gonna need a headgasket, new headbolts unless u want to risk using the old ones and t-stat. new oil and coolant. if he drove it while it was hot ur gonna have to get the head resurfaced too. sounds like the opportunity for u to back out or lowball.

[Scotsman]

i would go with a blown head gasket , it is kinda of a big problem , the more he drives it the more of a chance it will thrash the motor

[FasTech]

Another Question, About how much do you think it would run me to get it up and running good again????

[Scotsman]

blown headgasket for sure. gonna need a headgasket, new headbolts unless u want to risk using the old ones and t-stat. new oil and coolant. if he drove it while it was hot ur gonna have to get the head resurfaced too. sounds like the opportunity for u to back out or lowball.thats what i would do

[FasTech]

i would go with a blown head gasket , it is kinda of a big problem , the more he drives it the more of a chance it will thrash the motor


He stopped driving it and put it on a tow truck

[jew_boy]

well how much are you planning on paying for this car

[Scotsman]

well how much are you planning on paying for this carx2 , what condition is said car? miles , been wrecked ,etc

[FasTech]

well how much are you planning on paying for this car

It was originally $700, but after all this I told him I'd do $300!

[FasTech]

x2 , what condition is said car? miles , been wrecked ,etc



Around 200k miles, never wrecked, pretty much stock

[FasTech]

What are the chances of the head being cracked????

[Scotsman]

What are the chances of the head being cracked????hell anything is possible , if the body and int is straight and he'll tow it to you for $300 , i'd do it , if you were gonna pay $700 to start with , you'll have pleanty of money to get it back on the road

[jew_boy]

for 300 if it doesnt look to bad i would buy it and just do a swap but it wont be to much to rebuild one of those motor or take long

[FasTech]

hell anything is possible , if the body and int is straight and he'll tow it to you for $300 , i'd do it , if you were gonna pay $700 to start with , you'll have pleanty of money to get it back on the road

Yeah, I just need something that could be on the road within the next few weeks or so, I'm really just not looking at another project so wanted to know if it was a cheap and easy fix.

[FasTech]

for 300 if it doesnt look to bad i would buy it and just do a swap but it wont be to much to rebuild one of those motor or take long


The exterior is really good for the age of the car! The interior is alright. But I'd rather take my money else were if this is not an easy fix.

[Scotsman]

if he's towin it to you , changin a HG is not hard at all , if you have the know how

[FasTech]

if he's towin it to you , changin a HG is not hard at all , if you have the know how


Yeah I can change a head gasket, but Just wanted to know if maybe yall knew of some other problems that may have occured during this whole thing, like head cracked, motor is sh!t, etc.......

[Scotsman]

if he towed it as soon as it started overheatin , then you should be good with a HG

[FasTech]

Thanks everyone.. I'm going over to his friend place tommorrow and check it out!

[Scotsman]

hope it works out for ya bro

[FasTech]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to TheDrunkScotsman again.

[jcs]

just go ahead and do the mini-me sinse i got this extra z6 head.i guess we will check it out tommorow.