I was driving my 95 Legacy LS wagon w/auto transmission yesterday and the cooling system exploded. I then drove it under 10mph for about one mile and found a good place to pull over. After checking under the hood, I could tell that the fitting on the radiator that the hose attaches to had broken.
The garage that I had the car taken to says that it has a blown head gasket. Says that this coolant system failure and a thermastat failure a couple weeks earlier (which I had fixed) were signs of it. I am just beside myself. How could it happen on this Subaru? I have checked the oil regularly.
Some vehicle history: This is a 95 Legacy LS wagon with auto transmission. It¹s got approx 150k milage. I have checked the oil regularly since I obtained the car (got it at around 144k). When I bought it, I had my garage check it out during the 48-hour grace period to make sure I was not buying a lemon. They found that the engine had some typical Subaru oil leaks and then fixed them.