Poss Blown Head Gasket--95 Nissan Pathy

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anybody?
 
Head gasket is going to cost you a fortune no matter which shop you take it to... Might recommend buying a different type of vehicle if you have continuous problems with your Pathfinders.

Can't really recommend a shop, if your good with engines, best bet would be to do the job yourself. Save an absolute fortune.
 
Pathy is going under the knife Monday morning. I just couldn't let her go as i've already sunk a ton of $$$ into her. I was afraid of buying somebody elses problems.
 
Update 9/3/2010

Machine shop says heads are iffy. One cam journal is extremely tight and two valves are not seating. My mechanic insists machine shop is being picky and current ones are still useable once I get a quick valve seat cut and the cam journal polished.

Since I am not sure what all this means, could you guys give me your opinion? Which direction would you go?

1. Look for new heads or

2. Fix/polish what I have

Any/all opinions appreciated.

Jason
 
when my head gasket jeep 4.0 i6 went out it warped alot of the valve seals (i lost almost all of my compression in all of the cylenders). i just got them to re seat all the valves and machine the surface of the head. and when i got a new set of gaskets for the head air intake and exaust, and put everything back together it ran ten times better than before i blew the gasket. this is because it had great compression. i thought the only reason you would have to get a new head is if you overheated the whole thing so bad that it either cracked or warped the whole head just my .02 dont know if it helped but that was my experience with the head issue.
 
The vehicle ran fine before it overheated.
 
Which head shop did you take them to in High Point? There is one kind of off Eastchester that will perform miracles with cyl heads. Cracked, warped enough to slide a credit card under, doesn't matter. They can fix it. I think it's called Carolina Engine Heads. We send all our BMW heads that people have cooked there and they fix it and send it back looking better than new.
 
rattlecanpaint said:
Which head shop did you take them to in High Point?
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I took it to a shop in Winston-Salem. I am not sure who they use. I will keep them in mind as I am about to buy a 04 Passat that needs a new motor.
 
Take it to that place in High Point. They will definitely be able to fix them. I had one where the guy cracked the head from the exhaust valve all the way to the edge of the combustion chamber and when I got it back I couldn't even tell where the crack was.
 
Everything VW. The owner (Tom) has a mechanic there named Bruce who knows Nissans front and back so it was an easy choice given my other options: 1. dealer 2. CL mobile mechanic 3. yellow pages. The bottom line is that Tom has worked on my VW's so I trust him enough to say Bruce knows what he is doing and he will stand behind the work.
 
Update: Got it back and runs like a champ.
 
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