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I do most between 135000kms and 240000kms so 177000miles is done perty good.

blown headgasket welcome to the blow headgasket club have had this senario 20 tims this year it pushes the coolant out becuse cly preshure is 175-200 psi pushing agansit 12 psi rad preshure the combustion leaks into coolant sestem and over preshures the rad cap this is what you are seeing

The headgasket denial runs deep no one wants to blame them BUT ME lol but is always the headgasket most times is because the rad failed or was overheated on a coolant fill at some point in its life

Mine I ran at rev limiter for days got better and better It has 320000kms on it and was never reved till I got it now no mercey 5000+ rpms everywere trying to see how hard i can push a stock high km motor see if I can break it. Anyway try retorquing the intake bolts somtimes come loose and suck air

the ujionts are peened in i push them past the peen and the new ujiont has internal clips that hold it in is no problem takes me 20 min to change it have done many of them. +1 impreza 3.90 outback 4.11 tooth count time. Ask supplyer for the matched impreza rear diff

6 broken awds in five speeds in one month sounds like got a bad trans unit the rear berrings go and tears the awd apart check for meatal in the oil or any tiny bitts. the ujionts are replacabble. pn 1-0430 neapco ujiont. Anyway of the 6 i dd 5 were 01-04 outbacks all bad awd seems more commen on outbacks as they are heavyer cars. Also i put 4.5 L of oil in them keeps the awd in oil all the time and makes trans less likly to fail. Have determined that they die from long downhills all the oil ends up in front of trans and backend runs dry overheating the awd unit untill it pops the snapring and eats itself

oil preshure check min 10 psi hot at idle if higher engine is ok if lower do bottom end List headgasket x2 seporater plate x1 front crank seal x1 front cam seals x4 must be brown subaru ones valve cover gasket set intake gaskets ex gaskets plugs waterpump/ thremostat subau stat only coged idler or timing belt kitt timing belt. MUST surface heads check block for damage and burning on lower part of fire ring and make shure Cam buckets go back in exact holes they came out of and that they have adaquite clearance to tight will cause missfires

Same as loyale check the ground were coil bolts down bracket MUST be grounded to get coil/ efi to work add a extra ground wire from coil braket to - battery terminal also the xt6 uses a computer in trunk and is very prone to voltage drop as the wire harness is so long check + side fuse box and conections and voltage at rear of car is same at front of car

My outback sport had thiss problem mine the bolt was broken off in hole i drilled the center of bolt and taped it to a smaller size I also had a broken trans xmember bolt was able to air chisel a hole above it and replace it with bolt and nut was hard to get to but doabble

I did heater core in my 98 outback sport and missed speedo cable whould not rev over 4000rpms untill i hooked speedo back up probly needs speedo cable or speed senser anyway this is normal defalut mode fix speedo

My 2.2 outback sport was leaking on heads kept pushing coolant out overflow i got it up to temp and retorqued all the head blots and it stoped leaking goto love the 2.2

So see the reverse idler gear right between it and the front case should be a 1/4 inch brass spacer washer this wil prevent reverse kickout and make reverse 70 % stronger I putt one in every case make a bigg difference

China head bolt vs japan head bolt I will use the stock ones thank you the new ones are cheap for a reason the steel is cheap and low grade

I sell a good used ej 2.2 for 1200$ + parts for install wp tb cg ect very hard to come by round here any ej engine that runs is gold I buy them all from local wreakers and sell every single one i get.

check cold air dr addjustment I remove heater core remove bottom tank rod it out and resoilder end tank back on then good heat

had one that the two hoses on the rollover vent on filler tude were reversed made for very slow fill swaped them back and problem gone

Two things start with HP feul pump have been finding the screen on feul pump pluging and pumps making low output [ carter hp wrx pump p74152hp ] this fixed the last two mising stumbeling wrxs. Also o2 senser mabee shorted ritch or valves to tight

One after the other every day all day the local parts supplyers canty get ej2.5 headgaskets fast enuff but if you want to 100% confirm it I use a comp tester hose in cly with shop air blow gun attached at tdc on the ?abble cly holding crank locked with bar putt shop air to cly min 120 psi and watch for bubbles in rad any bubbles hg this test never lies. And is 100% acurate

there should be holes in the xmember to put long #3 philips thru to do up bolts or a ten mm swivel socket on end of 1/4 inch ex works to

Ditch gasket and just use ultra grey as gasket like the new motors do the cork pan gasket was a pos and never sealed that well

Yup tell me about it when they bring you ej2.0 head studs for there ej2.2 motor arrgggg !

Headgaskets always the headgaskets were heads planed ? I a'm constantly redooing headgasket jobs that people/ shops did poorly or got wrong of the 20 ej2.5ds i did this year 15 had had heads done less than 50000kms previosly they are so picky on the surfaces is very hard to get a good seal. This is why i bought my own head surfacer so i can get the best surface posibble when doing heads. And 90 % have burns on lower fire ring surface more than 2 thow deep

I would use a egr soiliniod from a outback dose same job and way easyer to find and dosent fail as mutch quwick fix whats with all the tickets ? I been a licenced tech for ten years and have been working on subarus for 18 years.

Down hill yes start up mabee slightly for a few seconds but lots of oil and not stoping smoking rings. Ex get alot of damaged valve engines 3 or more bent valves even runing on 2-3 cly valves bent guides seals damged no smoke just pop pop pop out the ex yes a bad valve seal or guide / valve could cause oil burning but not alot just minor oil burning. When they sitt over night if rings are bad at all the oil slips past the lower part of oil ring and gets on top of piston so when you start in morning puff o smoke.

The comutator bars wear enuff that they are not seporated any more then it drags brushes axross the bars making them one long bar and short out pulling way to many amps burning wires