hoffy14

thanks for the welcome and you're right - its a 2.5L EJ25 with around 75K miles on it...

Hey all, I've got a '98 Outback that was overheating, I thought it was leaking coolant - brought it in and they said I needed a new water pump and timing belt. Two days later on a long drive it overheated again. After poking around and looking at http://www.subaruheadgasket.com, I now know it's definitely the head gasket. Does anybody more mechanically-inclined than me think I was robbed when they put the new water pump and timing belt in? That is, now that they are going to charge me for the head gasket, should I be pissed that they did the other work too - was it necessary to replace the water pump and timing belt when all along the head gasket needed to be replaced? Thanks all for any help, Mhoff