What the!!! HG's blown TWICE!?!

[Fox]

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)

[idosubaru]

barter? cleaning, painting, moving, cooking...anything you can do....

 

good luck moving forward. being without help, community, support is tough, maybe evaluating that would point to constructive things you can do to not be in this kind of place in the future. keep that head up.

[Fox]

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.

[Ricearu]

How long did it take to replace your gaskets last time?

[Fox]

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.

[Ricearu]

i dont think from the way it sounds that "goo" was used on the headgaskets, it sounds like it was used on the intake gaskets

 

just to help, the head gaskets are vertical when installed between the block and heads, the intake gaskets lay flat on top of the head where the intake connects. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY IN THE WORLD TO REMOVE THE HEADS WITHOUT REMOVING THE INTAKE. PERIOD END OF STORY.

 

Not trying to be rude or mean, just sayin. I would think at that level of water it is the intake gaskets leaking...

 

[idosubaru]

we've already cleared the air on the headgaskets/intake gaskets stuff in some earlier posts. intake gasket was replaced - but only one - the other was goo-ed because they only had one to work with.

 

actually if you bet enough money i could remove the heads from the engine block without removing the intake, you'd loose. of course we know they didn't pull off both heads still attached to the intake because it would be one step short of a magic trick (and a total waste of time) getting the heads past the dowels the thought makes me want to do it just to be funny....just saying that this comment may not be entirely worthy of caps and periods and the thought really is kind of humorous.

[Fox]

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$

[one eye]

To replace the intake gaskets just for a try, that would take one 12mm socket , extention, ratchet, and a 17mm open end wrench. Those gaskets are cheap, you could even make them out of gasket paper for 3 bucks. It seems well worth the try to me................... rather than call it good.

 

Jeff

[Fox]

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 @_@

[Fox]

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..

Edited January 4, 2011 by Fox