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200,000 Mile Club
A friend has a Gen2 with over 600k miles before it was totaled. It sounds like a Gen3 engine is not capable of doing that without the head gasket...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum -
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200,000 Mile Club
?? Which engine are you talking about? The used engine you are driving with in you car now? Or the second used engine you would have in your...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum -
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200,000 Mile Club
But it you're doing this work, why not do it on the used engine you have right now, in your car? Why buy a whole different used engine, with...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum -
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200,000 Mile Club
'Tis true, 'back to square one', as in you now have a second used engine with a pending head gasket failure. That's the part I don't understand...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum -
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200,000 Mile Club
Is there a way to 'inspect' a head gasket in an unknown used engine? This sounds like a ticking bomb also. What's so hard about replacing the...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum -
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200,000 Mile Club
She did, did she? My car tells me squat. I looks under the hood and sees the coolant is now down about an inch and I says to myself, I says, "Crap,...
Post by: Bill Norton, Jun 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM in forum: Gen 3 Prius Main Forum