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Subject:Re: subaru head leaks (SVC)
From:Al and Sue Brase
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:14:09 -0600

Pretty revealing, aparently this mostly is the 2.5 engines?
One comment I liked: "This car counts as two- my first and my last!"
I wonder if KEP could make an adapter to put a Waterboxer into an Outback?
Al Brase

Daniel Stevens wrote:

>It seems that the subie 2.5s from 99-03 have a similar or worse life
>expectancy as the vanagon wasserboxer.
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>but people still seem to like their cars, unlike some van newbies that
>buy a 15-20 year old camper and expect it to have no major mechanical
>issues..  which I agree.. the VW head corrosion is poor engineering,
>either in metalurgy or design and function..
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>anyways heres a great listing of subie head problems, readers exerps
>and milage reports.
>http://mysite.verizon.net/vze730qe/guestlog.html
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>Dan in SYracuse
>(still prefers I4s, though it's a tad buzzzy)
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