brookhill

Thanks a lot. I found the webpage. I think I am going to follow his procedure. Great to be here USMB. I should have come here in the first place.

Thanks for the tips and inspiration. I'll start and do the head job on weekends. And encountering any difficulties, I'll get back here and ask. I appreciate your help.

Will STEEL SEAL work? Anyone tried on Forester?

Thanks for your reply. As a matter of fact, the beginning was bubbles in the reservior and crazy swing of temp gage. And smell of gas in coolant, cold inlet radiator hose and hot outlet radiator hose. So I checked thermostat, it was fine. Then I decide to replace water pump. When I take out the timing belt, I just marked everywhere so that I could just put it on the same marked spots. But somehow when it came off, that camshaft turn spontaneously and off the mark, got stuck. It's 98 Forester EJ25D and only 90,000 miles on it. Crank time mark is off. I'll try to align the crankshaft first and then try the camshaft again.

I have a 98 Forester and just replaced water pump and tried to align camshafts for timing belt. But the right intake camshaft got stuck somehow and not turning right after I removed the timing belt. The other camshafts are free to rotate about half turns. Is there any way to unfreeze the camshaft? Thanks.