I'm not talking about the seller, the shop who sold you/installed the engine for you. It should be covered no?

i doubt warranty covers the clutch, i could be wrong.

However my clutch went bad also weeks after i bought mine. I knew it was coming but not that soon. JWT combo costed me 820 shipped to Canada. However installation was $1100

 

I purchased the engine from eBay with a 30 day warranty. My original mechanic was MIA with my car and the motor for 3 weeks when I finally got everything back in my possession the shop was already pretty booked and didn't finish the swap before the warranty ran oit

 

ops, thats shitty.

Sorry man good luck on your repair

 

Soooo... After looking at all the finances and possible trade in values I think I'm just gonna drive it minimally for a while and fix it later in the spring maybe. In poor condition the trade in value is like 9500 they would prob give me even less if the caught the head gasket and not to mention I just bought it for 11k and already spent about 4k in repairs I really can't afford to take any more hits with. It doesnt help that the only sub the wife is interested in is a newer Tahoe. So I'm just honna attempt to power pay it off in the next year and work on it slowly and pick up the Tahoe next year. I just hope I don't run into crazy more problems

Thanks everybody for your input and advice

 

Again, best wishes. The only additional thing I could offer is to change the head gasket yourself, which is what I've done in the past when I couldn't afford to hire someone. Growing up in poverty was one of the best experiences of my life, in retrospect. One learns how to do a lot of things they otherwise wouldn't if they'd been coddled all their life. The VQ engine might be a challenge to learn on if someone doesn't have much mechanical ability to start with.

I wouldn't get in a rush to pay the car loan down until I'd built up an emergency fund of at least $2,000, and I wouldn't even be thinking about trading for another vehicle for at least five years...preferably longer. Unless someone is extremely lucky, and/or extremely good, they'll lose several thousand dollars every time they trade a vehicle in...and it doesn't really seem from what I've read that you have money to burn yet.

 

I would love to try and change this thing out myself however time and weather are an issue at the moment. Fortunately I live less than a mile from my work so I really don't need to drive it which I wasn't planning on driving it that much in the winter anyways considering its my first rear wheel drive car. So my options are changing it myself when it gets nicer outside or letting it sit and slowly pile together parts for it, reading alot and possibly since ive already replaced to the motor with no luck, maybe piecing together a LS swap over time. Lots to think about.

 

Start saving some $ from every paycheque, and get it fixed correctly. Have the G ready by summer.

I remember your posts from a few months ago. What a terrible chain of events, huh?

Best of luck.

 

What he said (minus the hookers....lol)
We have a great community that helps out it's own.

 

I wish I was close. I would be more than willing to help you change that head gasket. Best of luck though man!!

 

Wow sorry man, looks like you just got a lemon or someone abused the hell out of it.. GL with whatever course of action you choose to take.

 

The worst part is my best friend is a mechanic. Went to school for it and worked at a dealership for a while. He quit and I have most of his tools in my garage. He's so lazy though and won't help with anything. He's like a woman and needs the best conditions to even look at something... For instance it has to be perfect weather outside for him to even look at anything. We've actually drifted apart lately because he's so unmotivated and useless. I haven't even told him anything about my car, I tried when the engine needed replacing saying I was thinking about taking a trip to pick up some things to take on the swap myself and that I just wish I had somebody with a little bit of know how to point me in the right direction and he never even offered any type of assistance whatsoever. After 25k in school loans, about 15k in tools, the mother f*cker works at sprint!! Smh lol

 

Anybody know a good write up for a head gasket job?

 

Your best bet would be to get a copy of the Official Workshop Manual it is a step by step guide which shows the removal and links to other steps required. You could possibly do the tear down and the cleanup and then if you could find someone knowledgeable to guide you through the rebuild process (Maybe an Infiniti mechanic that could use a few extra bucks, dealer charges $100 an hour but the mech's don't get that). Your going to have to be a little creative here. Any good friends that could lend you their garage?

 

I may be a slight retard when it comes to this but can I do this with the engine still in the car? I have an idea of the amount of work to just get to the headgaskets, but what else would need to be done? I can't just tear it apart replace the headgaskets and put back together? Sorry for my noobness