Technical Local engineers say I should get my head welded, rusty coolant holes!

[Momanatorz]

They said to get all the coolant holes weled and £10 for each hole and they'll do 1 for free so £70 but i'm like no way lol.
I looked closer and most of em are 'ok'.
they'd do the skim and gasket for £30 after.
really bad ones are on #1
#2 is fine
so is #3
#4 looks kinda bad at the top hole
I'd get 3 holes welded i think. and does anyone know if welded is a good thing on aluminium heads...?
I googled about it and heard in every result that pre-heated of the head is required but they were about welding within the actual combustion area, but is it required for just coolant holes?

or should I just get a head from breakers or ebay?
Any advice please
have a nice day.

 

[Momanatorz]

Oh i forgot to add they said the machine won't work with the damaged holes, is that BS or what?
seems like they wanna rip me off and get am all welded

 

[Momanatorz]

Any assistance please...

 

[beau]

id probably buy a second hand head, the corrosion is acutally eaten away into the sealing ring part.

you can get heads for as little as £5 upto £50 on ebay.

 

[arc]

i'd also start using antifreeze

 

[Momanatorz]

id probably buy a second hand head, the corrosion is acutally eaten away into the sealing ring part.

you can get heads for as little as £5 upto £50 on ebay.

I'm gonna go with welding the 3 holes as of yet

 

[Momanatorz]

i'd also start using antifreeze

Yeah... previous owner put water in since 2002, well i think it was water.. it has to be cos of this disaster. it was dark brown...

 

[5abr3]

coolant that has been left in for years turns into a dark brown sludge eventually, chances are it was continual tap water topups on the original coolant :bang:

 

[Momanatorz]

coolant that has been left in for years turns into a dark brown sludge eventually, chances are it was continual tap water topups on the original coolant :bang:

Yep... most possibly... and i have to suffer! but i did get it for £50

 

[5abr3]

Yep... most possibly... and i have to suffer! but i did get it for £50

Mine had similar abuse and I paid more than £50 for it!

Luckily the extent of the abuse was much lower.

 

[poulard]

Oh i forgot to add they said the machine won't work with the damaged holes, is that BS or what?
seems like they wanna rip me off and get am all welded

Hi never heard of this proceedure i would get a head from a good breakers Poulard

 

[Momanatorz]

Hi never heard of this proceedure i would get a head from a good breakers Poulard

Thanks for the advice, I will soon now as i got my free travel oyster card for this year :slayer: