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replace them with the head gasket from the EJ255 or 257. They’re made of MLS and most shops do that in order to make it last longer since they rarely blow.
Pros: last longer, rarely blow
Vehicle:
Subaru
642 head gaskets from a similar year wrx. Don’t use the same 633 or you will have the same problem again.
Pros: solves recurring problem
Vehicle:
Subaru
Part number: 642
My HG went bad around 180k, with no EGR cleaning by the previous owner. It started to consume coolant pretty quick and smoke came out of coolant tank lol
Replaced HG is a few weeks, cleaned air intake manifold and EGR. Now, I’m hoping to get many more miles from it :)
Pros: Replaced HG, cleaned EGR
Cons: consume coolant, smoke came
Vehicle:
Toyota Prius
Mileage: 180000 km
I'll toss in the 7M-GE/GTE. Pretty much guaranteed to have a failed head gasket due to under-torqued head bolts unless you caught it ahead of time. Usually happened at the back due to excessive heat at the rear of the engine.
Pros: sounded great exhaust system
Cons: failed head gasket
Mileage: 200000 km
Keep in mind I got rid of a 2013 Forester that had the infamous Subaru head gasket issue. Not an issue I want to ever deal with again.
Cons: infamous issue, unreliable
Vehicle:
Subaru Forester
The Japanese car that's let me down has been Subaru. Two blown head gaskets resulted in the engine overheating and basically turning into scrap.
Cons: blown head gaskets, overheating
Vehicle:
Subaru
I just made a key to a 22 toyota corolla cross with 9200 miles on it and the head gasket was blown, was at an auto auction, the wreck wasnt that bad at all I was really surprised, I've made keys to 10x worse and didnt burn coolant lol
Cons: head gasket blown
Vehicle:
Toyota Corolla
Mileage: 9200 km
I have a 2010 with 218k miles loses zero oil but I lose coolant think I have a head issue. But I've put about 20k on the car just topping off coolant once a week. I would say the head gasket issue is pretty high I've never had a car with a bad head until now.
Pros: loses zero oil
Cons: loses coolant, head issue
Vehicle:
Toyota Prius
Mileage: 218000 km
Unfortunately subaru only realized that the late 90s Subarus had an unreliable gasket material. They started switching to multi-layered metal gaskets around 99-ish. This is a really common issues with the NA 2.5.
Pros: multi-layered metal gaskets improved
Cons: unreliable gasket material
Vehicle:
Subaru
Head gasket, typical Subaru issue.
Cons: typical issue
Vehicle:
Subaru
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