Awesome Service, had to share Gasket Masters Inc. - Five Stars

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bam!!! Just like that!

 

Cost?
I'd also be a little more curious about what they did to keep the new head gasket from failing.
Also, heads tend to "bend" (warp) from high temp events, often caused by coolant issues from the gasket failing but it also usually requires a little help from the operator.
Connecting rods tend to bend from hydro-locking, which is a fancy way of saying that water got into the cylinder bore - something that the head gasket is supposed to prevent.
I'm not reading as many warped-head posts in the forum as I am bent-rod posts, so I'm a little curious if they replaced the head or the whole motor.

So....
Prius Head gaskets (UNlike their timing chain cover gaskets!!) are generally not faulty.
They fail for a REASON.
Did they explain what they did to prevent the new one from failing, or are they just hoping that it lasts a year before the thing that caused the old head gasket to fail takes out the new one?

Good Luck!
Glad you were pleased with their service!

 

59 minutes 15 seconds is unbelievable. With a good head swapped in. Plenty of company with the 2010-2014 cars. Design flaws.

 

I'd want somebody to take a little more time with my car.

THIS is why they don't have "world record times" for open heart surgery......

 

The best surgeons are fast

 

I think they gave that up with amputations in the bad old days before painkillers and antibiotics.....

 

but put together a netflix tv series for that, we’d be all over it.

 

They HAD a couple of more instructive videos, not just fly-on-the-wall cam style. If I’m not mistaken, they’ve resurrected one of those, the one in the cab lot.

(I’ve salted away both…)

 

What was the total cost for such speedy service?

 

Cost??

 

Maybe it was free in trade for posting about it on PriusChat?

 

If you have to ask….

 

In your opinion, would engine temperature cooling during stops contribute to the head gasket failures? Such as thermal expansion to engine head causing head gasket leaks.

 

<Deleted> This is maybe be a trick question...

 

This gasket masters head gasket video is pretty detailed and narrated. Obviously it is edited to 37 minutes. I think they normally take around 3 hours when doing mobile service.

 

They're pretty rad. I've been leaning hard on the video @rjparker posted (download it - they set it private sometimes for unexplained reasons) and the one in Baltimore. Got a quote from them, $1750 if they did it here in Sonoma County, $300 less at their shop. Couldn't afford that sadly but the job isn't that hard, just tedious.