If you have ever worked on one of these newer engines with all of the sensors and crap it is a whole lot easier to go to a junkyard and get an engine with low miles and a guarantee and replace the whole thing than it is to get somebody to put in who knows how many hours worth of labor replacing a head gasket and then it not fixing the problem.Plus,in some cars it would be easier to replace the engine than to try and work on it in the vehicle.If you have to pull it out anyway,just replace it and go on.Probably save you 2000 dollars to replace it.You want to get an engine from a car that has everything on it so all you have to do is plug it in where it has plug ins,and replace as few accessories as possible.Cars are wrecked every day.That doesnt mean they are worn out junkers because they are at a junkyard.Of course some are,but you are buying a low mileage tested engine with a guarantee.Not going to Pick and Pull and taking it out of a ratted out ghetto sled they drug in and started stripping.Big junkyards have racks with engines on them and you can hear them run sometimes.If they put a guarantee on it they think its a good engine.Maybe you could get unlucky and get a bad one,but Ive heard horror stories from mechanics about rebuilt engines that were knocking as soon as they started the first time.Then the auto parts store didnt want to stand behind their guarantee.An engine thats had a blown headgasket has a good chance of having other problems like scored cylinders and weak rings after you put a new headgasket on.If you get lucky and it runs good and doesnt drink oil it will be a miracle.I spent years as a mechanic and rarely saw an engine that just needed a headgasket replaced and then it was alright.By the time its run to where it blows a headgasket it is probably either junk or close to it.Maybe if you caught it right when it got hot,and shut it off,and had it towed in and fixed you might be alright.If most people today were driving they would keep going until it quit going and its nothing but junk.
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