Well today was my lucky day I thought. When I went to the crusher it just so happens that someone pulls in with a 96 or 97 subaru Impreza outback 2.2 sport. It had the factory hood scoop and since my father knows the owner of the yard I got it for free:brow: . It was side swiped but ran.

 

Then I decided to switch to Synthetic motor oil. I go to Advanced and to my advantage there is Castrol full Synthetic motor oil on sale. So it was $3.19 a qurt instead of $5.

 

Well he bad was on my way home from work. I was driveing and thought my tranny wasn't shifting ( It does slip some but works rather well) and pull over and stop, I figured I was'nt used to the 3 speed auto and that I was just not paying attention. I also sorta remember the rpm's geting high up there ( I decided o get on the car when getting up to 55 mph) but cant really remember. Then a when I pull away I see alot of grey smoke and smell coolent.

 

Dam I thought I had just got BHG. It did not over heat at all and the temp stayed in the half way mark. It happend 100 feet from my driveway so I made it home. well when I stop the car the smoke pours out the cracks out the hood. I open it up and look around and find that my coolent hose to the turbo blew. I am now releved that its not BHG and am still wondering about the tranny. So I guess I will find out tommorow. Doese'nt look that hard to change so I hope its not a pain to get off.

 

so thats my day, sorry for the long post but I did'nt want to leave anything out.

Well, Kudos to you on the great score(the car). I'm sorry that it gave you trouble. I have had that happen on my GL-10 before. It really sucked. Happened while trying to pass a slow vehicle on the highway. Hose blew, and come to think of it, acceleration was garbage right after that happened. It was a good thing that I was 2 minutes from home and was able to baby it there.

 

Patrick

Yea It had great acceleration and power after the hose blew, but I just hope its not that hard when trying to replace it.

I never Heard anything like that

but I wish it won´t be so hard to fix...

Good Luck!

Exactly the same happened to me 2 weeks ago or something, the coolant hose just popped of the solid line running under the block, smoke everywhere, but it was real straight forward repair; just put it back on, ziptie around it and drove home, hehe

thats happened to me twice now. maybe im unlucky. its really easy to change. you can take the metal intake that goes over top off to make it easier.

Ok then I will look at it today.

Well, I got the new hose on and all seems good, it started to run hot once while test driveing but temp droped soon after I shut the car off. I think it was just air in the lines still so I will refill after it cools down and then report back.

I just toped of the radiator and everything's fine.