Of course the car can't just let me slide with a new clutch and main needle bearing in the transmission, it has to make me do something else to please it!

 

I've had a very very slow leak around the water pump since I got this thing (96 2.2 in case anyone wonders), which I can smell from time to time, but I've never had the coolant BURNING smell that I had this morning. (burning as in, dripped on the exhaust pipes and burned off as they got hot, not a pleasant smell.)

 

So, Does anybody use something besides just the little paper gasket when replacing a water pump? I'm thinking some Indian Head shellac will keep it from doing this ever again.

I coated the gasket in black RTV when I changed the water pump on my brat. I suggest getting a new Subaru gasket.

I use the indian head stuff on waterpump gaskets.

 

 

nipper