Possible blown head gasket. What next?

I think my Head Gasket has blown. Milky grey sludge under the oil filler cap and coolant has completely disappeared, dipstick looked very odd and running very hot. I'm not remotely confident in my ability to resolve this as a keen to learn but low skilled DIY'er. How much money (as a ballpark), am I likely to need to borrow off the wife (reduce the cost her birthday present by), for a garage to do the work?

Do you know engine you have?

It's a TDI 200.

Get the gasket set and have a go yourself..

no better way to learn..

I think there may be too much to go wrong for me to attempt this myself, unfortunately,

No idea but a mate was just charged over £500 for changing a water pump genuin pump mined £153.27 for parts rest was labour think it takes me an hour or 2 for a water pump. If your gonna pay someone for a head gasket expect 1500 to 2000 minimum and that's if nothing else breaks while they do it

Lephreek said:

I think there may be too much to go wrong for me to attempt this myself, unfortunately,

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Sadly this is the choice. You either pay someone or have a go yourself.

If you have a couple of mates and some hand tools. Then doing a head gasket isn’t that hard. But as a first ever job I can see it being a little daunting.

On the flip side. The Tdi (well the entire Land Rover really) is a super basic vehicle. You don’t need “specialists” to work on them. Any half competent mechanic would be able to do a head gasket on a Tdi. So well worth asking for some quotes. I’d say they should be pricing at 1 day max and maybe as little as 1/2 day labour. Parts will be cheap too.

It's a reasonably easy job. With a manual and LZ on hand you may be able to do it in an afternoon.

(The 'may' is because the head might need skimming. Mine didn't, you may be equally fortunate).