Hey! So this is how my perth to Byron bay (via wagga wagga) roadtrip has ended about 1000km ago there was a locust plauge... Engine overheated a lil, unbeknown to me (APEXI FC YOU LIE!!! TELL ME THE TRUTH DAMMIT!!! SO I KNOW TO STOP) head gasket went. Haha and now I'm running on two cylinders so I'm putting her on a trailer for the remaining 400km. Haha hopefully being toed by a foz to retain subarus dignity...
Anyways. How hard is it to replace a head gasket on a boxer engine? I have plenty of time for a diy, as I'm on holidays - but would it be better to pay someone to do it? Has anyone out there had this experience too? and know the approx costs involved? Diy vs unknown mechanic?

Ps here she is halfway across
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...&id=1016337289

Love a dirty wrx, looks like it's been where it belongs :d

Baha and that would be all those lovely gravel truck stops/depositries of roadworking materials dotted all the way across the nullaboor those massive piles of pebbles are the best obsticles ever for a lil rally circuit I shall upload photos of the trip when I finally get home to the interweb... Doin all this on the iPhone...

I like the part about dirty mums...

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Power Fc lied huh?

what did the gauge on the cluster say?

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Head on a boxer, easiest would be engine out wouldn't it?

yeah definately engine out, i have heard of people doing it in the car, but personally wouldnt do it like that
if you have all the right tools and torque specs its fairly straight forward to do...

the same... But the more I think about it, the less I blame the instuments... It doesn't neccessarily have to overheat to break things... I guess the only way to tell the headgaskets are gone would be the loss of coolant and oil, and a lower compression. Mmm wouldn't it be cool if the fc monitored compression too...

I've been reading some ancient threads on this forum, and there seems to be a general concensus that the gaskets can be replaced in the engine bay - but with more difficulty. But - since I'm on holiday and not around dads workshop; I think I'll leave the engine in.

Another question that seems to have little information about; immediAtely - what should I do? There's likely coolant in the bores isn't there? Coolant=corrosive + lovely shiny object ==> disaster. So how do I get coolan out of heads?

Haha lianas mum is pretty dirty... I think she's Austrian too - likes a lil of the hardcore scene ;-)

Good luck trying to do the gasket properly in the engine bay..

Engine out is the absolute easiest way to do it.

Gay - looks as though I'll need some workshop space... My00gc8 - have you personally replaced a head gasket?