Dear Car Mechanics/Experts, Can someone give me car repair advise regarding the replacement of my head gasket, which just blew in my 1982 Honda Civic DX 1500 due to a one-time overheating: I've been told that sometimes when a head gasket blows the head can also be cracked (which, however, can only be determined after half of the labor, when the head has already been taken off). 1) Is that true? 2) Does anybody know how seldom or often a cracked head occurs simultaneously with a blown head gasket? ?and 3) if there is a quicker, less expensive way to find out? (I'm asking this trying in order to assess how big of a risk it would be to hope that the head gasket would be the only part that needs to be replaced if I had a mechanic work on the head). (I've already determined that a new engine would not be an option. Either I have only the head gasket replaced or the car junked at this point). Thanks for any advise you can give me to make an informed decision on that! Also, if you can tell me how cheap and where (in the San Francisco Bay Area) I could get a head for my gasket if I needed one, I'd appreciate that too! Peter Please email me dicectly at ps_hahn@...