head cracked on 94 3.0 ?????

[andrewlee31]

just had a call from the garage and the head has cracked on my 3.0 with 68,000 miles on. now i thought these were pretty bullet proof!!!! Tony you had any of these come through??

they are paying the bill so its not a wind up, and they also replacing the rad with a new one.

feel like i dodged a pretty expensive bullet here, but all credit to the garage they not complaining or even tried to worm there way out of it. Pitstop in Biddullph Stoke on trent

[Guest]

Occasionally 3 litre heads have been known to crack though not that common. You just got unlucky.

[laser_jock99]

just had a call from the garage and the head has cracked on my 3.0 with 68,000 miles on. now i thought these were pretty bullet proof!!!! Tony you had any of these come through??

they are paying the bill so its not a wind up, and they also replacing the rad with a new one.

feel like i dodged a pretty expensive bullet here, but all credit to the garage they not complaining or even tried to worm there way out of it. Pitstop in Biddullph Stoke on trent

It's possble to break any engine....

[TonyN]

It's possble to break any engine....

Exactly, look at it this way, in 8 months, I've seen 1 cracked 3.0 head, 3 3.0 head gaskets, and 1 cracked 2.4 head every 2 weeks!

So no need to panic yet. Incedently, the only cracked 3.0 head was in a 97 UK spec Landcruiser.

[fatfires]

It's possble to break any engine....

especially if it's given too much 'added speed'.........oops sorry!