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Look at that view of those beautiful snowy mounts in the back ground

Utah is a gorgeous state! the view when the camera paned out 19:09

There is a guy called Subaru Mike that has quite a few videos of Subaru engine swaps and head gasket repairs. He’s a wealth of knowledge. He’s worth searching for on here.

This is why I always stay clear of them as flip cars but If you are good at it then it may be a really profitable market for you to get into

I'm appreciative of the talents you have to work on any make and models of vehicles..

I've always removed the intake manifold and gotten to the torque converter bolts thru the access hole on the engine on the passenger side.

Yes, the engine has to be taken out to remove the cylinder heads on a Subaru engine although Ivan from Pine Hollow Auto diagnostics has managed to be able to do it with the engine installed in the engine bay. My brother purchased a 2000 model Subaru Forester for $3,500 AUD over a decade ago after the seller got the cylinder heads rebuilt after the valves got bent in it because the old owner cheaped out on a new timing belt & tensioner kit, while they're not cheap at over $1000 AUD rebuilding the cylinder head cost as much as my brother bought the car for, I'm pretty sure about that. My brother bought a timing belt kit at "mates rates" for $900 AUD when he replaced the timing belt in it . Well,the cylinder heads got rebuilt twice because my brother ran the EJ20J engine on LP gas & guess what, when my dad who was driving his Holden ( Chevrolet) Colorado at the time drove up there separately to my brother & his wife as well as my niece the engine dropped an exhaust valve & my brother even tried to buy a used ignition coil to fix the problem. They went to visit my now late grandmother about 500 kilometres away from home & when my brother was coming back the engine in the Subaru lost power & began to misfire. He drove it to my cousins partners mechanical workshop so him whose a Subaru trained technician could diagnosed the fault which was low compression on one cylinder. Yes, her partner did his apprenticeship with their local Subaru dealer ,he used to drive a Liberty RS turbo until it aged & he began to have problems with it. Back to the Forester,my brother left it at his workshop then he came home with my dad & he decided to get him to fix it up although it cost more than the car was worth to repair it,my cousins partner got the cylinder heads rebuilt with new valve springs, valve guides,new valves & new valve seats then he resealed the engine & replaced the clutch, timing belt, etc with new items, they had to go back up to near the Queensland border in Australia to pick the Forester up. The cost to fix that car up at just about cost price was you guessed it,$3,500 AUD which cost more than the car was worth. I have had to fix it up since with a used throttle body because the throttle body shaft was sucking in air due to the throttle body being worn out & one of the LP gas injectors also got stuck in it as well so I freed it up the best that I could. Yes, against my cousins husbands advice my brother still ran it on LP gas after it was repaired,I did a compression test on both occasions that I repaired it & it was 200 PSI at 400,000 kilometres on the original EJ20J engine. There's a man in Slovenia who owns exactly the same car which got stuck at 999,999 kilometres with the original engine in it because a digital odometer doesn't clock back to Zero kilometres !

I like your work / videos and I like the background mountain view 👍

n thats a job well done. you should advertise for the things that are easy money for you like this subaru head gasket.

Very impressed at your confidence in doing such a massive job! One question: what’s the advantage of using that odd orange torque box instead of a traditional torque wrench @23:32?

Nice crv table !

I hope you always check live data after a job like this like monitor engine temp RPM lftf stft and O2 sensor Data too and anything else

It's a Subaru! A Subaru is love. Love the mechanics.

Back in the late 70s my brother had a New Subaru Brat. It was just out of warranty. Blew a head gasket. The dealer quoted him a high price. he said it was so high it exceeded the cost of a rebuild on his SBC. They said they were going to throw in a valve job. He had a local garage change the head gasket and traded it off.

Honda CRV picnic table for the win!

I love MMO ! I use that as the qt extra my engine calls for its 6 qts so 5 qts 10w40 and 1 qt MMO

Reasons I use a 16 qt oil change pan the one that almost over flowed in the video is why I never use those anymore

I use gas to clean greasy parts too great solvent

Head gaskets and timing belt failure on subs

Would a torque check on the head bolts before any problems arise be worth the while? I’m obviously not a mechanic!

jdm 2wd transmission always throw the tcc code on the 1998-2001 honda crv 2wd i swapped mine in over 100k ago. and i still works. if you swapped in jdm its most likely ok. does transmission shift 1-4? does the toqure converter lock up in 4th? if it does its fine. if you need to pass emmissions reset the computer turn the overdrive Off drive the car over 50 mph until the completes it loop and i will pass emissions . It works everytime

You definitely don’t look excited about this job 🤣

Job well done

If I could have a backdrop like that of the mountains I’d do labor for free !

😂😂Ur going hard with the impact ratchet. How many have u gone through or do they survive the beating?

Do Subaru,s still have head gasket issues now nor have they moved it to the CVT,s

Hopefully subi got fixed wid MLS headgaskets,Man torque converter was really tricky its hard to imagine even in workshops bkums quite a task where everything has to b aligned at hairs width imagine doing it outside like done in vid job welldone

I use to do a lot of those back in the day.....

I thought you did the torque converter bolts on top under the Intake manifold? That’s the way I’ve always done it guess I’ve been doing it Wrong!!

time for a shear huh the longest i could make it was two years i wont try that again now i know why sheep need to be sheared

Sorry about your asthma , look into how a non sugar carnivore diets can benefit you in reducing this inflamatoric situation, yeah food not meds . Love your videoes.

If it was a wrx, wouldnt be this issue, they have the mls gaskets. But the earlier na subarus (non turbo models) had the organic gaskets. Just need to be changed out & shouldnt have the issue anymore

What was the total cost to the customer for this job? parts, labor and machine work. thank you

These seems to fail soon after head gaskets are done. Heads crack blocks distortion around liners fire ring. If overheated before.

That view looks like a photo 😂 we never see anything like that in Florida.., (unless it’s man made) Disneys Mount Everest

Has Subaru EVER solved this forever problem?

You gonna go bankrupt taking on these jobs as a Mobile Mechanic 💯

You didn't cut the hair much .

Subarus have lots of problems.

Man what I would give to work on cars with views and silence like that 🏔️ ☀️.