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Been away for a while (that's a good sign - the cars have been pretty much behaving), but I've got a few things to do this summer and might as well wade in. I think I'm the lone dissenting voice here. I have a couple of '01 H6s, both bought cheap, one came (in pieces) with HG leaks and the other developed them later thanks to a series of overheatings. Last summer I pulled them both and did the gaskets, and it's fundamentally not a different job than doing it on the EJ25s. The difference is in the timing cover and All Those Damn Screws - about 65 just to pull the front off, and those are the ones among which will almost certainly be a stripped head or two (they're Allens). Once the heads are back on, cleaning up the cover halves and reassembling them adds a day to the job. I actually found rethreading the chains to be kind of fun (didn't replace any of the timing components), and I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. I just took one of them (the one with the terrible body but bitchen McIntosh stereo) out for a road trip - Calgary to Toronto to fetch a(nother) boat, then back via Pittsburgh, Madison, and Minneapolis - and with a big load of old computer hardware in the back both ways. Nothing like an H6 to give you the juice to do that.

Cleaning the switches worked. When I took it apart, eveything fell out and there was a moment of panic but once cleaned and back together the window is alive