Hello All,
My good friend had his head gasket blow. His truck is at a shop now and he just got a quote to replace the engine. He was having cooling issues where his coolant would boil up and bubble out of his overflow for the last few weeks. He didn't realize this is what was happening and assumed he had a leak so he'd add in water to replace the leak until he could get it fixed.
Well now that is has blown and he has zero compression, the shop it is sitting at says they need to replace his engine, as well as the hoses for the radiator, the radiator itself (it blew a large crack in the top plastic section, similar to what our TJ's have). They also quoted him to replace the PCV hoses due to cracking, as well as his heater hoses due to the use of stop-leak. My friend swears that no stop leak as been added to the coolant in the time he's owned it which has been roughly 5 years. Completely speculative but he takes his truck to this shop for work and roughly a year ago they found a coolant leak. It could be that they added in the stop leak they're referring to.
The shop has the cost of the new engine at $12k.... for a 75k mile used engine....
They have roughly 8k for labor and replacing the PCV hoses, radiator and coolant hoses and the labor for the work. After taxes his total is roughly $21k.
Obviously this is ridiculously overpriced. I've seen engine swaps for tons less money let alone just replacing a factory engine with a used one. I get they have to replace hoses and a radiator but that still in no way warrants this price.
For reference you can easily find the same engine he has, used for anywhere from $4-6k.
What are y'all's thoughts on all this? Anyone have experience getting an engine replaced with a used one and what they paid for it?
He's gonna get quotes from other shops and figure out exactly why they're charging so much.
Thanks for your time!
My good friend had his head gasket blow. His truck is at a shop now and he just got a quote to replace the engine. He was having cooling issues where his coolant would boil up and bubble out of his overflow for the last few weeks. He didn't realize this is what was happening and assumed he had a leak so he'd add in water to replace the leak until he could get it fixed.
Well now that is has blown and he has zero compression, the shop it is sitting at says they need to replace his engine, as well as the hoses for the radiator, the radiator itself (it blew a large crack in the top plastic section, similar to what our TJ's have). They also quoted him to replace the PCV hoses due to cracking, as well as his heater hoses due to the use of stop-leak. My friend swears that no stop leak as been added to the coolant in the time he's owned it which has been roughly 5 years. Completely speculative but he takes his truck to this shop for work and roughly a year ago they found a coolant leak. It could be that they added in the stop leak they're referring to.
The shop has the cost of the new engine at $12k.... for a 75k mile used engine....
They have roughly 8k for labor and replacing the PCV hoses, radiator and coolant hoses and the labor for the work. After taxes his total is roughly $21k.
Obviously this is ridiculously overpriced. I've seen engine swaps for tons less money let alone just replacing a factory engine with a used one. I get they have to replace hoses and a radiator but that still in no way warrants this price.
For reference you can easily find the same engine he has, used for anywhere from $4-6k.
What are y'all's thoughts on all this? Anyone have experience getting an engine replaced with a used one and what they paid for it?
He's gonna get quotes from other shops and figure out exactly why they're charging so much.
Thanks for your time!