I am looking for a car which needs engine work to buy for cheap and then fix and re-sell, thereby making some money for my labor. I encounter a fair amount of cars which are said to "need head gasket(s)". Pretty much always, these cars have had at least one signicicant overheating incident -- either before, or after the "head gasket" diagnosis was made. Tell me if I'm right about this: I don't think an overheat would damage the head gaskets -- as likely as it would warp or crack the head itself. In other words it becomes a "the chicken or the egg' scenario: Did the head gasket go bad and cause the overheating? Or, did the engine overheat for whatever reason, and damage the head(s) in the process , and thus the damaged head displays symptoms like a blown head gasket?
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12 years ago