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Originally Posted by hayden55
A 60k mile pull jdm prius motor is $1600 if you throw a rod, a head gasket kit is $200 if you blow the gasket and keep the rods inside, and a new oem battery is $1700 every holiday before tax lol.
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Throw a rod? Or if you just scratch a cylinder from stuck piston rings, which seems to be quite common unless you religiously change your oil every 3,000 to 5,000 miles. You can't hone the cylinders, the iron sleeves are too thin.
$1,600 for an engine plus $1,700 for a battery plus whatever a catalytic converter costs you if your engine starts chuggin oil. Just hope you're not in a California compliant state.
If your Prius were one year older there would be no more OEM batteries for it since Toyota no longer sells Gen 2 batteries.
I could get a Gen 3 battery, swap the cells over to my Gen 2 and then put the Gen 2 cells back in and take that back as the core. I'm still not sure what to do with my Prius. It's been sitting there for the past couple of years as I try to contemplate what to do with it, whether to tackle all its problems or scrap it and forget it. My friends with garages have all left. I can't change the engine out in the parking lot without problems with the landlord. Do I change the HV battery, the FR wheel bearing, the engine, and the catalytic converter or do I haul it off to the dump and use that time and money on something more worthy?
The nice thing about the Gen 2 is there is no EGR valve to deal with.