I have a 95 XLT with 128K miles and have been experiencing two problems:
- a noise from the front end that sounds like tire noise (thumping).
- a slow leak of antifreeze.
There is no antifreeze in the oil, which helped me to think that this was probably a bad water pump (info I found online).
I just brought this into a shop and they are telling me that it's the head gasket and they want $2600 to replace it, and that's without new heads, just resurfacing the existing ones. First, that seems really high to me, especially without new heads. Second, I question this diagnosis since when I asked what symptoms are pointing them towards the head gasket, they simply think it is that just due to age.
Thoughts?
Matt