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Hi there, I have a GL/DL stationwagon, I wish to do a little travelling and removing the base section of the back seat would give me a lot more leg room when the seats are folded down. (The bottom section folds up and sits behind the front seats, when the front seat is forward, the bottom section sits between the front and rear of the car) Now, the area under the rear seat has a warning, not to place any parcels there and to ensure that there is no item between the seat and the base when they are folded down/back. Is this because the area is delicate or something? When the seat back is folded forward, it locks into place with the weight transferred down onto the hinge which is holding up the seat section. I need as much space as I can get. Edit: I removed the hinge section from the seat and fitted it back to the base. I am still curious as to why the area is so protected. Thanks in advance

I have to repair this on the side of the road.. if anyone can assist, in Victoria, please contact me on 0431212101 asap. I wont have net access for much longer. thanks for your help.

Heyy.. just a thought... If it is an internal gasket or "issue" inside the carb which is allowing water to "escape", when couldnt I temporarily sandwich a piece of aluminium or something with the bottom gasket between the carb and the manifold to stop the water entering the carb, and hence stop the leak? I mean, it is just for heating the carb up isnt it? Its summer where I am, and even in winter, the carb will not ice. (Australia)

Bleh, an old thread has morphed into something else, so thought I should post it here in a fresh one. (1984 EA81) Long story short, HG's were done a lil while ago, inlet manifold gaskets done today (didnt need doing, I bought them, so fitted them anyway) I have the original carb, hitachi. What happens is I do a bit of running around, after some start-stop driving, the temp skyrockets and I lose a lot of coolant. I do not let it get into the red. I just made it back today, popped the hood for a look and heard some water gurgling, didnt sound like there was much left. I opened the air cleaner to find there was a considerable amount of water in there.. enough to drip off the lid, on the interior of the cleaner, above the carb. So, I suspect a carb gasket. As I have to move house tomorrow I am going to have to replace the gasket with cork. I do not have the time nor the ability to overhaul a carby, so is there any particular gasket which is likely to have gone to cause this? (There is a milkshake in the passenger side valve/rocker cover, and only a little in the drivers's side, for whatever that means) I am out of time, if I cannot fix this tomorrow, I will have to push my car into the street and sleep in it until I can fix it. I am moving some distance. Oh, it is safe to use cork there isn't it? Any help is appreciated, I am not mechanically minded, I am trying If anyone in Melbourne (Aus) is willing to help a girl out, pls let me know, I am an hour or so up the hume. (North of the city) Thank you.

-Head gasket/s -Developed rapid overheating, suspected inlet manifold gaskets, replaced. (They weren't the problem, suspect carb gasket/s, have water in air cleaner) -Drivers side door opening rod -Muffler exploded after a mechanic did not replace the coil when instructed during tuneup, timed it, muffler went bang. Replaced with magnaflow from WRX (Sounds very very nice.. when its running) :-\

I replaced the inlet manifold gaskets.. the ones that were in there.. were fine. Went for a drive, went fine, then all of a sudden, got hot.. I barely made it back. While the engine was hot, pretty much as soon as I stopped, I pulled the PCV hose from the top of the rocker cover on the passenger side, water dribbled out, I tapped it on the cover, some more water came out. I am out of options, tomorrow, I have to move house. I NEED to drive this car, irrespective of what condition it is in. Any ideas? Tomorrow, I will clean out the PCV and see how much water was lost from the radiator, if any. It is too hot to check now. EDIT: There was very little water out of the exhaust, just what you would expect for a car that sat for a week. I guess, the only gasket left is the carby one. Edit 2... HOLY CRAP.. there is a lot of water in the air cleaner! On the INSIDE of the filter area.. so I guess that has to come from inside the carb. I didnt want to have to mess with that as I intend on installing a weber..

I wasnt sure if the temp would degrade the gasket itself. Regardless, I am not driving it and the gaskets will arrive monday.. at cost @_@

ARGH, intake gaskets were NOT replaced. Neither of them. They mustve been removed by the person that was doing the heads with me. The head gaskets WERE replaced, with non subaru gaskets, with goo. I repeat. The intake gaskets were NOT replaced. I ordered subaru original intake gaskets today.. 22$

Umm.. I would have to say.. 4 hours give or take.. with help, with the right tools.. with a garage.. None of which I have.

Unfortunately, this is a "welfare town", I am a computer specialist in an area which largely, does not use them. Most stores, dont use them I have been doing work for places, off the books.. there was going to be a very decent job coming up, tax exempt pay too, up to 3 months.. However, there is no transport there, I would need the car going.. There is no way I can risk driving and further damaging, or worse, destroying the engine. A LOT of water was going through. All in time.. I just have to delay everything that was planned.

I live on my own, moved out to a crap area.. I have no family out here and most of my friends have less of an idea about mechanics than I do. There has only been a problem for a few days, the car was due for a service, so I bought oil and things.. so I can be sure this has only just happened. I guess the gasket failed suddenly. Put it this way.. I am down to a meal a day, if I am lucky. I had medical expenses and things that were unavoidable. Every store in this town price gouges, I am expecting 30+ just for the gaskets. The tools, I have no idea who has a torque wrench, and local mechanics are very expensive.. The only half decent one screwed up and stripped the spline on the axle.. so I certainly wont be going back there. (Had wheel bearing replaced)

I might not have, the person I was helping do the heads mightve. I know the intake gaskets were not replaced though, for I bought the parts.

I have, about 2 screwdrivers, no torque wrench, nothing. I wish I could. I am going to see if I can do the inlet manifold ones, I have no chance of the head gaskets. None of my friends have anything like it, only one other girl I know has the tools.. and lives in Sydney. Thanks for the kind sentiment.. hopefully I don't have to part with my car, I really don't want to. (I had plans to add a flip top rooftop camper and things..) If I remember correctly, the gaskets I installed were black cardboard with metal insets/edges.. 1/3 the price of subaru ones.:-\

I just lost my job, my car, my eldest dog is not well.. Where I live, no car = no job. I was about to move house, which I can not do now. In other words.. Im screwed. Anyone interested in buying, PM or call me.. Alexis: 0435453955

I am looking at a picture of the inlet manifold in the manual, and I did not remove that. Either way, I cannot replace the head gaskets. Subaru for sale: http://ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?p=978720#post978720

Yeah well, one subaru for sale. I do not have the time, tools or ability to do this, obviously. I DID NOT TOUCH the manifold gaskets, I DID NOT remove the manifold. I know they will leak if I do not put new ones on, so I DID NOT touch it.

Sorry, slight misreading. I have not replaced the manifold gaskets, I was sent one instead of two, so didnt remove them when I did the HG's. I used goo when I installed the head gaskets, not the manifold gaskets.

Nope, motorpro. Which I believe are the same as the ones the dealership here use. (Also used gasket goo, a little, not too much) If a HG blew, wouldn't I have water in the sump?

Nah it wasnt machined. I have had no issues till now. The car, since I have had it, has never been overheated, the gasket blew while I had it. I am the second owner, the car was used as a runaround in a small town, never went offroad as far as I know. Well, until I got it. The closest it ever came to overheating was yesterday, and I was in the driveway, so turned the car off and let it be. (Didnt hit red)

Sorry about the tone of the original message, I am pretty annoyed.. My meagre toolbox was stolen, so this is such a pain.. Low on funds and couldnt have happened with worse timing. I am losing about 1-2 litres a day of water, I never let the temp reach the red. When I replaced the HG's, I cleaned the PCV throughly and dried it before reinstalling it, I often walk around the vehicle while running, just to make sure everything sounds ok, it was almost pouring water out of the exhaust yesterday, 2 mins and the ground was visibly wet, yet the dipstick remains with only good oil on it. (Oil is circulating around the engine) When I can borrow some tools, I will pull off the intake manifold, has anyone got any diagrams? I have to locate my workshop manual I did find a few large drops of water in the air cleaner housing, on the INSIDE of the filter.. I suspect that was from the water I had just driven through though, there is a lot of splashed water around underneath the hood. Thanks a heap for any help.. If I cant fix this, the car has to go. I was about to move house.. bad bad timing. UPDATE: The passenger side rocker cover is completely lined with emulsified oil, the drivers side, not so bad. A very thin lining, with black oil marks over the emulsion. The pcv is completely lined with it, the spark plugs are wet, the dipstick shows no rise or fall of oil level, it is spot on. Does that sound like the intake manifold gasket? It wasnt done with the HG's as I was only sold 1 gasket, didn't want to risk damaging the second one.

Oh this is too much.. I just want a car I can drive.. A couple of years ago, maybe not even that, I replaced the head gaskets (Motorpro gaskets if I remember correctly). Now, I have a milkshake again. I haven't a good look to see the extent of it. I was removing the spark plugs for a look/clean as the car has been running a little rough (ea81), I pulled the pcv from the rocker cover and saw the milkshake... this is it.. if I cant solve this in a week, the car is going to the scrapyard. I have had enough of these damn subarus. I am not a mechanic, I am not mechanically minded, I not even a guy, I cant do half the crap that is required to keep these things running.. its a joke. I need a car, not another hobby Is there anywhere else the water can get into the engine? The hg's should be fine.. dammit.. now I have to walk everywhere. Any help is appreciated.. I think the soob is probably going to have to go, I am so not paying for some useless mechanic to mess around with it, even if I did have the money.

It wasnt a loose spark plug. Im almost at the point where I am going to have to surrender my registration and scrap the car, as much as I do not want to do this, I cannot afford a mobile mechanic at the moment.. I fear, if for some reason oil is not getting through, itll sieze the engine. There has been no oil pressure light come on either.. I havent had time to pull the sump off, I am sick as with a secondary lung infection. (Not contagious) :-\ Thanks for your help.

I just got evicted (100% landlord's banks' fault ) I need to sleep in my car, if I can ever get it running right again, I have a matter of days to get it going.. please.. if anyone can help me fix it, please.. let me know. I am in Melbourne (Aus) in Montmorency, I have almost no tools and almost no chance of fixing this.. :-\ if someone can help.. please..

Ill pull the sump off for a look, and to check the intake. The oil has always been checked and changed, running semi synthetic 20 50 and ended up adding 10 40 in my last top up. Running the Purolator filter, which is relatively new as well.

Surely someone has an idea...