(Subaru) Now, this is an interesting page...

"Hachiroku ...

Because they can?

What really prompted me to hit the reply button was the BHG. What is a BHG? (My mind is tell ing me big honker G-striing, but somehow I don't believe that this is so...) Tomes

Du-u-u-u-u-de!

Big Hearted Girls!

er, Blown Head Gaskets...

LOL yeah. I figured it out when I read the other threads. I have my reader set so the most recent posts are at the top. I think I will try flipping that around so I see first what I would have missed . Tomes

B lown H ead G asket.

You should WebTVs ''reader'' or whatever it is called? It is incrediably easy.In fact, everything pertaing to WebTV is easy and fool proof, goof proof.The only times I use my little wireless keyboard is for typng.Everything else, I use my little hand held remote. cuhulin

My neighbor did gaskets on a 1.8 Subie wagon with the motor in. He took his time and spent a week to work on it but it really didn't look all that bad.

~Brian

Right at the top of the page: "On some models, engine compartment room is limited, so it may be necessary to remove the engine to service the cylinder heads."

I have an 02 Legacy, and there's no way those heads are coming off without the motor coming out (or a sawzall to the fenders.)

Ray

All head gaskets at work are done in-car; several tricks make it easier. BUT they are done from the bottom. IF I were to do a head gasket at home (or a clutch) I would pull the engine. That is not so hard as you would think. It also lets you access the back and reseal the entire engine, something thats good to do on subarus.

Thanks, Steve!

Yeah...the reason I was quoted $1200 was because of the list the tech gave me for things that should be done with the headgasket.

Um, however...one car is an '89 in OK shape, and the other is a '97 with

Maybe you can find even more help here, from the factory manuals:

Thanks, but it don't work... :(

Hmmmm....it didn't work in Windows, but it is downloading just fine in Linux...Hmmmm....

um..because the vehicle has to still run after they're finished with it?

Yeah, that would be a GOOD thing!

Don't you mean "When..."? ;)

When my wife's Beretta borked the trans, we pulled the engine/trans as a combo. Didn't seem that much harder, and allowed me to do the timing chain, oil pan gaskets, etc... as kind of a PM type of work.

If my Legacy ever needs head gaskets, I'd pull the engine as well so I could do the same stuff - it's way easier and cleaner on the stand than in the car.

Ray

Seems to be that way. Two Subarus w approx 130,000 miles, both need head gaskets...

Hmmm....

..and in my case (as I never tire of whining about!) 2 BHG on the *same* car with only 160,000 km!

That's 100,000 miles...hmmm...