I found this car for sale locally.  -     2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT Limited Sedan 4D.    It has 105k miles.

Ad says the engine started to knock and he parked it shortly after that.

Should I stay away from this?   I have done head gaskets with engine removed in my other 2.5.   Would it be a matter of just getting heads re done?  Or

is this entail cracking the lower engine?  etc.?

 

 

 

You will need a new short block at the least probably.

Rod knock means having the block checked for journal roundness and line honed if need be.

A new block is the cheaper alternative

You will then have to have the turbo checked to see if its still good.

If it was a cheap and/or easy fix, it would've have been done already.

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any idea what  price would be to have engine fixed?  I would do timing waterpump and head gaskets.

No idea til you found out what's wrong.

SubaruPartsFor You, lists a complete Turbo short block for $2030!!

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