January 25, 200521 yr Hello everybody, New to the forum and look forward to hearing from you. My wife's 2001 4 cylinder:-( Outback emits a faint burning rubber smell from the passenger-side engine compartment. Checked the belts and hoses and they look fine as far as I can tell. The tires look fine and I don't think she knows how to get all four to break loose:-) It's more of a nuisance than anything, but wanted to run it by you before it turns for the worse. Thanks in advance, Steve
January 25, 200521 yr My wife's 2001 4 cylinder:-( Outback emits a faint burning rubber smell from the passenger-side engine compartment. Checked the belts and hoses and they look fine as far as I can tell. The tires look fine and I don't think she knows how to get all four to break loose:-) It's more of a nuisance than anything, but wanted to run it by you before it turns for the worse. Thanks in advance, Steve Wonder if it may be burning oil you are smelling... At least to me, they are kinda close in smell... Reason I am wondering, on our 01 OBW the passenger side valve cover gasket is leaking. It is leaking onto the Spark Plug wires on that side. Wonder if the hot oil is causing the rebber plug wires to heat up a bit... Easy way to tell if it's leaking is to pull the spark plug wires and see if they're oily. Keep posted with results... BTW: Welcome aboard the board...
January 25, 200521 yr Check the inner C/V 's on the trany they are probably leaking grease on to the exhaust . There is an updated grease that goes in the C/V's , they need to be pulled out cleaned and repacked SEA#3
January 25, 200521 yr My 82 has done that since time began I have never been able to figure it out Good Luck, Glenn 82 SubaruHummer 01 Forester
January 26, 200521 yr Mine has done that since I got new cats. Theory is that the new cats keep down the usual stink, but don't pull out the sulphur, so the only smell that remains is the burning rubber/sulphurish smell. Either that or my car is about to explode....
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