Sbiessel

Speaking of fenders...anyone know of a good place to get aftermarket fenders for a late 80s subaru GL wagon?

The motor has 99k on it. The car hasn't been overheating at all. Yeah, it does sound like these guys are giving me a run around. The subaru specialists in town wouldn't even look at it, telling me they had a cutoff date of 1990. Does sound like a leak into the intake charge. Well, I'm taking it in to the dealership and they have to look at it. Going to get the diagnosis and estimate. Hopefully they'll know what they're doing.

For starters, I'm new here. I've got an '87 GL turbowagon with 99k miles. I'm from Fairbanks, AK, which is pretty hard on rigs. I'm not terribly mechanically inclined unlike most of you guys but I love these cars. Anyways, here's whats going on. There's white smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe intermittently and a strong smell of burning antifreeze whenever the turbo engages. I thought it was probably a cracked head gasket. I liked the car enough and thought it was probably worth fixing. So I took it to a mechanic and they said cracked head gasket, but they didn't do engine work. So I take it to another place and they thought it was definitely a leak in the cooling system in the turbocharger that was allowing coolant into the engine--but they wouldn't do that kind of work. I've read that turbos usually go bad between 60-120,000 miles on these cars. You guys probably know the symptoms better than these mechanics. What do you all think? I've got an appointment to look at the turbocharger this friday with ANOTHER mechanic at the local dealership.