seattlelexusguy

The maintianence records were supposively good, and he had papers when he sold the lexus to me (around the 130,000 mile mark). The car ran good until then and then all of a sudden it was white smoke everywhere.I called the places where he had papers from and they said that they dont have records of his car (I should have called before i bought it, i was just to excited and made a mistake). I havent driven the car much since I blew the gasket so I am pretty sure I havent over heated the engine. I am thinking about taking the heads out, taking them to a shop and getting them rebuilt and then putting on the head gasket on myself. Also I am going to do a full tune up, swap water pumps and put new fluids in. I have done this job on a smaller engine with no AC, so if anyone has pointers or anything that could help me. I would much appreciate it. Also, if anyone knows where to get a full gasket kit online or good parts for decent costs, I would appreciate that as well. Thanks again for all reading this.

I am pretty sure the head gasket is blown and im getting white smoke coming out of the exhaust and some black smoke(this is why I think I need to change the valve stems). I am also losing coolant like crazy.

This is my first post and I would like to say that going through the posts was very informative and I think what you guys are doing is awesome. I have to replace the valve stem seals and the head gasket in my lexus. I have done this on older cars and with easier engines. I was hoping maybe someone could give me tips on doing this. My lexus has 145000 miles on it and to the best of my knowledge the valves havent been changed. Should I do this? Another question is does anyone have a good web site to order parts from. I am looking for a master kit for all my seals and gaskets. Thank you for your time in reading this, i am looking forward to your posts.