didn't see that happen hey this is david with hagerty on redline rebuild updates
i am working on a subaru engine i'm not going to lie to you not my first choice
but hey seems like a lot of use like that uh choice of motor so we're gonna knock one out
and uh if you haven't started already go back to the first episode and watch from there after you
watch this one i'm like 17 or 18 times but anyhow today i'm gonna take this thing completely apart
and i have absolutely no idea so i'm gonna start somewhere and i'm gonna finish with
just a block somewhere i have my tools well organized over here on the table
so uh with that i'm gonna get cracking and probably make a lot of mistakes why is that
the way that it is well i don't know who took this out of the engine but somebody was very haphazard
and just cut the power steering lines i wonder who that could have been oops but it made it
easy and i probably need a new power steering lines anyway can you explain why somebody put
a lawnmower turbo on it well yeah for some reason they use the various well in my i they got a snail
over here on the back um it seems to make fairly decent power it comes on like six grand but yeah
is what it is um again everything's the wrong direction yes done a volkswagen motor
whatever uh we'll see if we can make this work i'm just gonna start work on the top go down take
bolts out pry probably curse a little bit under my breath of course and uh get parts on the table
i'm actually just going to dump this down here
well it seems to me like uh subaru decided to go through the parts bin and
empty it out with all the bolts hoses zip ties there's like 80 of them
and hose clamps so it's a little more cumbersome than one might expect
i can't believe uh head gaskets blowing these so often that they like to change them
know what i mean
look another zip tie beautiful
it's like my fish story it's this big
victory
she's clean
she drop a nut down that one
i don't know who was driving this last but they sure got a lot of sand all over everything
you know
seems like i had a coolant leak because it's all green up top what's up
yep the brass
the inlaid nut is not working
that's the way she goes when they're stripped you can't do nothing about that
okay well here's my rockauto.com tip of the day now i didn't expect to have this problem on a
i'll say a foreign car because usually their fasteners are pretty good and the heads are
solid so and so forth but in this case looks like this motor has been leaking maybe some coolant and
the timing cover bolt heads they're like corroded and huge from the rust so what i like to do is
just take a take the normal size socket that's supposed to fit it use a hammer to tap it on there
like so
and use a six point socket as well not a 12 and then
they'll knock loose now if by chance that head is smaller
just go to the next size smaller but in a fractional um socket instead of the metric socket
oh now this one's going to fight me so here's what i was saying
now on this one the head is so rotted i'm actually going to go down and use
a 3 8 instead of the 10 that it should be it's 3 8 is ever so slightly smaller
so
where i was gonna take it out at i couldn't
lift it
off all right well i'm gonna do my best here to get these rotted bolts off
and of course you can see the shroud isn't a whole lot better so it's not
like i'm trying to save something that's i'll say worth having at this point
we may have to take a torch i'm also going to kind of prepare just to pry it off
and use the air chisel but let's see we
well i guess that's proof that you still have to use a little bit of uh manual effort persuasion
on the modern cars as well just because this
one hasn't been sitting in a field for 50 years isn't making it happy
so my concern going forward is all right not ever taking apart a subaru motor or do
i have to have some certain you know tool so as a for instance a lot of times on the older
late model stuff you have to have i should say newer late model stuff you have to have some
sort of special puller to pull the crank pulley off in this case it was just a bolt
and it's it's a slip fit so there was no press on there that need a puller now as i dig deeper
into you know your timing and all that jazz we're probably going to get into something
and especially when we go into putting it all back together
our specialty tool issues are so far it's just been a pry bar but uh exhaust stuff is kind of a
pain because it rots on mainly the shrouding that usually rots off this is actually the first subaru
shrouding that i have seen that doesn't have the
aftermarket worm clamps holding everything together from rattling so if you hear one
going down the road and it's making a clatter and this is why um i can't imagine what some
people charge to put fan band clamps on their exhaust for people but usually the standard fix
there
might not be pretty but i win every time here
look at all the schmutz
put that in the crap pile look at that a little soot surprising getting plenty of fuel that
one's leaking oil right there that guide's got oil all over it so simple huh it's that simple
that's what i'm trying to do that's what i wanted
losing my mind i think it's a subaru
i had that glued down nice
i won again look at that well actually it doesn't look horrible i've seen a lot
worse with a lot more [ __ ] in the bottom of it it's uh
somebody at least loved it enough to change the oil twice so that's good
got it
got him
okay
little bindy bindy
all right so underneath this big cap lash cap more or less it's a you have your valve springs
which obviously is directly to your valve so your camshaft instead of using a push
rod in rocker arms it's direct to the top of the valves but they put this cap basically in between
to make a bigger contact surface of your lifter
i think this might be the only uh subaru in northern michigan without a blown head gasket
that's what i'm thinking because that a little bit of coolant eye foot in there
well that's gonna do it for me today uh from here obviously i got a lot of cleanup to do
somebody put sand on everything so we're gonna get it in the gladiator parts washer
get everything spick and span and then of course roll it over to throw bees and move on from there
till next time go get in the shop go get your work done
and well hopefully you get air conditioning if it's hot where you're at see ya
you