ok so i got a 2000 ford ranger 3.0 manual trans
The problem is rough idle no power white smoke coming out of exhaust
disappearing coolant coolant resivor bubbling any help i think i may have a blown head gasket or maybe a cracked head any ideas also how hard is it to change a head gasket and what does a shop charge any help ??? thanks

 

a shop is guna charge you up wards of 500 bucks to do the work

 

sounds like a blown head gasket to me do you have water coming out of your tail pipe?

 

Heck the shop I checked with told me 1200...I hope you can find it for a less cost..that does sound like a head gasket though

 

ya we get screwed in this state

 

^^ya tell me about it!!

 

sounds like it!! i did that to mine,,, the cost it 800,, have fun sorry

 

Not a difficult job to repair, the trick is finding out WHY it blew the head gaskets in the first place, so it doesn't happen again!

 

thanks for info guys

 

hah, mine did that with a bad t-stat..

 

yeah cost 750 at a mom and pops shop over in cali,good luck..sounds like a bad head gasket to me.But get it checked by more then 1 shop to make sure its the problem b4 u pay some ******** to do the work and its not even the problem