Replace Subaru Head Gasket EJ253 - Part 5 of 5
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- This is part 5 of a multi-part series I recorded replacing the head gaskets on a 2003 Subaru Outback, 2.5L 2458CC H4 FI VIN: EJ253
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I was an auto and industrial machine mechanic many years ago. Now I rely on you tube vids to keep me up to date with as much auto technology as I can absorb. I learned a lot watching these 5 parts. Very enjoyable viewing. Eric is a heck of a good teacher.
dan andy Glad you enjoyed them :)
I also watched all 5. I know it's a lot of work filming these overhauls but you do them right. Nice job.
+Robert Davis Thanks!
5 parts on your Toyota, 2.5. Head gasket job. Thank you for what you do. I'm sure you help many. It sure was helpful for me.
Monday I take the heads to the machine shop and then start the process of putting everything back together. So thanks again. I feel more.
Confident now.
The attention to detail is of a high standard.Definitely one of the best mechanics I,ve seen in action.Would not be out of place in a teaching establishment.
Nahh I forgot the coolant lines ion the end you kidding me!?
best auto repair channel on youtube hands down.
Watch was work is also pretty good
6 years later still the best.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put this series together! I followed along while I disassembled my 2002 Forester. Although I passed over the rebuilding of the heads because I had purchased heads to put on, everything went smoothly. What viewers need to understand is that you spent the time taping this series but we overlook the time you spent EDITING this series. Anyway, thank you so much. It was a great series and very well done.
Wow this series was a joy to watch, lots of tips I never knew, never too old to learn. I do like a long video but hey whatever is easier for you. Thanks for showing this repair. Take Care Steve 👍👍
Hey thanks Steve Rob. Yeah it was fun but just a lot of editing. Took as long as the job lol.
South Main Auto Repair Just out of curiosity, if you weren't pausing for video and other clients, phones etc... how long would this take you. You mention you've done dozens of these and it looks like you have a pretty slick system in place and know all your shortcuts.
Start to finish depending on how dirty they are I would estimate about 10 to 11 hours. A lot of things can dictate that time though...
When you have a "high attention to detail," it takes time to do the job correctly! GREAT VIDEO SERIES!
Only people viewing this will recognize that. With customers, it's "HOW MUCH?"
I have watched all 5 back to back. Very thorough. You can also see a massive difference in your self confidence and ability to interact with the camera. A brilliant channel I bet Mrs O is proud of everything you have done over the years and everything you have become.
So I just finished watching all 5. I was going to pull my engine to replace head gaskets but I am now inspired to use your method. Thanks for the encouragement. For us novice mechanics, the detail you provide is great. Thank you!!!
I love these long 4 or 5 part videos, they give us viewers the details that we may need. I also like to see what's involved in different makes and models of cars out there, especially the newer vehicles, which from year to year come out with more crazy so called improvements. I love your diagnosis vids as well, especially the testing, and not just part throwing. I was a licensed mechanic until about 01, and got MS, and kinda let everything go, but now I really enjoy vids like this, and can still do small jobs at 46. Thanks for all the time you put into these vids, and actually teaching things that help others, God bless.
I just watched the whole thing and I'm impressed. Came from the Soob shop today for the Takata airbag fix and they told me it needed the head gaskets. Tried to sell me on a short block for a mere 5 grand. No thanks, just needs the head gaskets I said, and after watching this, I believe I could do it myself with a few new tools. Always like an excuse, er, reason to buy a new tool or three. I appreciate all the hard work you put in, the fact that you just get to work and don't have a bunch of horsing around, profanity or loud music playing. Well done.
I like your videos to be long plus the fact that when u make a mistake you fess up to it and I get a kick out of it, it always makes me laugh because it shows your just as human as we all are. Your a very special breed of a mech-a-neck because your honest and you seem to be very fair to your customers and I like that. I am a yankee from Connecticut but I retired to Florida. I also will be sending you some license plates from Ct and Florida soon cause I know you collect em for your shop. Lov your show and wish you well. never stop what makes you happy..
Guys like you are selfless rarities, to impart generous experience at the sacrifice of a lot of personal trouble to help others - A BIG THUMBS UP, keep up the good, no great work and videos.
bro this 5 part series is a hidden gem on your channel. I just wanted to say your my inspiration.
I watched all 5 and I don't even have a Subaru. I have learned something from every one of your videos. High quality videos and high quality information. Well done.
I can't believe I haven't seen any comment saying, your daughter is just adorable. Her curly hair reminds me of my daughter. Love the videos Eric.
Really good series, Eric. I did a Subaru head job about 8 years ago and I was right there with you every step. Neighbor's car had a million issues, but just wanted the heads done - so frustrating to put crappy worn stuff back on, but it's their dime. Very noble of you to include a few errors on camera - we ALL do the same.
Thanks!
Lol thanks Corky C We're only human right?
Bit of a difference between a neighbour doing a job and a professional shop.
Eric would have liability issues to worry about, and even if he won any hypothetical case against him, it he still would have lost time out from his business and associated costs.
Frankly I would have to know the neighbour pretty well to help them in that situation. When something goes wrong they are likely to blame you, even if you warned them and it was unrelated to the fix.
@@Cheepchipsable No good deed goes unpunished
Eric I watched all 5 of these videos and found them to be excellent especially considering that you was called away like 50 times during the process. I have watched your other videos to and I find you a very honest person I would definitely have you as my mechanic to the jobs that I can't do. Thank you for sharing this head gasket replacement I know there is a lot of work going into editing these videos! You get a thumbs up from me! Regards Steve.
+Steven Watson Thanks Steve!
Just watched all five and took notes, (actually I take photos too at some key points with my I-phone helps jog my memory when working on my car). Had to take a minute to comment on a great set of videos Eric, I recently got a 2006 Impreza with a leaking head for cheap - your high level of detail gave me the confidence to take on the work on a flat engine and I dont' think I would have bought the car without these vids to help me with my rebuild since I don't have experience with flat "boxer" engines.Thanks again and keep up all the good work and postings you do, it takes a lot of time to film, edit, post, and reply to comments, I am sure I am not the only one (40,000 views!) who appreciates it.Robert.
I can sit and watch your youtube shows all day down under Melbourne Australia that allows my wife to watch Foxtel by herself, its taken me 3 months to find out how to comment I guess that's a part of getting old. Regards to your family, love your show. Terry Martin
WOW, I'm very impressed, you remembered where everything went. GOOD JOB
+Gary Johnson lol it is what I do...
Excellent video series! I love Subaru's, and I've yet to see a head gasket video this comprehensive. Nice work!
ryansauto93 Thanks :)
As an old retired tech it is really rewarding to watch a tech who knows what he is doing and takes the time to do it right! Watched all 5 thanks
Good technique and explanation of sealants, lubes and tools. Helpful for any cyl head work.
Hour 6 of my SMA video marathon. I don't even own a Subaru, but this video is still interesting.
Here's my opinion.......Nice job doing the videos. Multi-part is cool, it was a big job. I like that you leave in the oops parts, such as having to unbolt and then reattach the ground and the coolant leak. That's the real world for most of us so it shows you're honest in wanting to do a good and thorough job. Keep up the good work and once again thanks.
Great job.i'm going to be honest and say that SMA is getting more play time here in this house than regular tv these days.I dont do a lot of wrenching...but my hats off to those people who do.I'm a tradesman myself and doing things the correct way is always why I watch this channel.
I watch your videos instead of TV. You're a maestro!
Hey thanks man for filming these videos. I had inherited a 1998 Subaru forest and of course it had the head gasket problem and I had look up how much it would cost to get it fix and when I saw the price I was like I can’t afford that so I decided to make it a project car. Before this I have never had hand on experience work with engine mechanics other then like changing oil so I real had no idea what I was doing but then I found your videos and they really helped. I tried just leaving the engine in the car but it wasn’t working so I just decided to take it out. I’m not all the way done, right now I’m getting the heads machined. Thanks for everything, note I’m only 15 and first time working on an engine and I have school so I’ve been at it for almost a month now. I will definitely keep watching your videos when I put it back together. Thanks.
You get your Forester car back on the road?
Just watched all five episodes. I'm mentally preparing to do the HG in an 05 Forester and this was absolutely amazing to watch. It helped to also see some specialized tools for certain tasks. Loved the series and loved the Scotty Kilmer quote, loved the reference to Eric The Car Guy and then noticed Briansmobile1 commented! That covers the four online mechanic personalities I trust!!
Thanks for the vids man, just so damn cool to see the work being done using the right tools and most importantly the right attitude. Keep em coming!!
How did it go? I have a 2004 Forester X. The timing belt snapped while getting on the freeway. Valves are definitely bent, but the pistons seem to be okay. I'm thinking about buying some rebuilt heads instead of rebuilding them myself.
Great Job!! I watched all 5. I'm not even doing a head gasket job right now. I've owned a total of 4 Subarus. We still have 3. I've done head gaskets on the 99 4cyl and the 01 6cyl 3.0. I know it takes time to do these videos but they are appreciated for sure. Thank you.
Great job, brings back memories of my days back in the 60's and 70's.
Excellent job! This is the best SUBARU video I've seen.
***** Thank you :)
most youtubbers tend after a bit of time has passed tend to start altering their style to an ad based format. wherein the while video is a thinly veiled ad. you dont seem to be doing that, even etcg has gone that way. i learned my craft from a guy similar to you, i thank you for the videos and appreciate your "in the trenches" approach, and the fact you go out of your way to consistently improve yourself and get confirmation of diagnosis. cheers
5 years later and Eric O. still has not turned his massive channel into a sponsorship Mecca. 😎👍 Your comment is just as true now as it was half a decade ago. "NAPA, not a sponsor."
My MY04 Forester is in right now having head gaskets replaced, so this series of videos has given me a great insight into what is involved in such a repair. The mechanic (who is a Subaru specialist) said quite a lot of labour is involved in the job, and I can now see why.
Its great to see one expert acknowledging the skill of another.
also, that neither is a smart alec. I salute both of you and look
forward to more brilliant videos.
Leo Lammas Thanks Leo, Brian is a pretty cool dude
Watched all 5. Excellent job. Wish I had your tools. I just acquired an 2.5L Outback and it needs head gaskets. I have coolant in the oil, I cant wait to dig in and see what I find. I don't work on engines very much, Your video gave me a bunch more confidence. I appreciate you taking the time to create these video's. Thanks
THANK YOU . You just saved me 2000 bucks . Very thorough . Respect Brother .
Local dealership quoted me $3500 to do the head gaskets on my Forester, you just saved me alot of money. Thanks so much, subscribed.
enjoyed watching all five parts. like the way you filmed it. don't own subaru or plan on working on one but still nice to see the CORRECT way it is done.
Nice work on this series. Very detailed and just like everyone else mistakes can be made and corrected. Thanks a lot for posting these videos!
+Gene Goon YW!
Seriously. That is a ton of work recording and editing. So kind of you to give such detail. Thanks.
Excellent series. The longer the better, it enables you to show more and for us to learn more. Loved the coolant mistake, it gave you the opportunity to show us what to look for regarding a hose off. It makes perfect sense now I know but not something I would have notices. The video was titled Subaru Head Gasket. I do hope the owner watched all 5 videos and knows how much more reliable his car is going to be with all the extra stuff which has been done. Belts, oil change, plugs, coolant, water pump, valve adjustment, HT leads. The care you took to clean out the expansion tank shows your standard. Great tip with the chain. Thanks Eric
A totally professional demonstration of a major engine repair.
What I find horrific is that, not only did these heads fail after only 5 years, but that this is VERY COMMON. Makes even Chrysler look good !
Just wanted to thank you for spending the time and energy making such a great series! I was able to replace the head gaskets on my 06 Baja last weekend and your videos were a huge help!
Great Video, thank you. I totally endorse the long, thorough video.
Watched the whole series . Thanks so much. Trinity is a little princess!
Great job on all your videos. I just replaced a motor in a 2000 Hyundai tiburon and followed your tips and tricks form various videos. Took me a 15 hours but in the end she roared to life. I had to be a little creative. I mounted an atv winch from walmart to the main supports on my deck and dropped her in place. Hey thanks again for the quality content.
Darren Wood That is really cool man . Thanks for sharing your story. :)
Great series! You do the job right and I would wager you don't get comebacks. This was a big job and it took multiple videos to show it. I would rather see the whole job than see a 3 minute clip of a 30 minute job. I know that it takes longer to do the job if you are recording it and it takes time and effort to edit and upload. I appreciate your efforts and look forward to more. I'm sure others share my sentiments.
Thanks eldoradony. Sure does take some time. However I am no where near perfect or flawless so comebacks do happen once in a while. I do the best I can for the abilities I am given and try to provide my customers with the best work I can do :)
This was a great series, between you and diagnose Dan, i surely learn alot of new techniques. Thank you for sharing and being so passionate. Best Regards
Great Job!! This is now my favorite TH-cam channel. Please keep them coming.
Made it through all 5 videos, no problem. I am totally impressed with the quality of your work. I wouldn't hesitate tossing you my keys and let you do what is needed on my car. I am what you call a suspicious customer. Until I developed some health issues I did all my own work with few exceptions. Take care of that arthritis. I tried to tough my way through for 25 years. Shouldn't have. I think your editing is great. You use a decent camera instead of a cell phone. I use Corel Video Studio Pro for my stuff, but am more into photography.
I enjoy all of your videos
R.G.Young, Jr
42 years mechanic retired
Thanks Robert Young . Means a lot coming from a veteran mechanic :)
All 5 🖒, know i'm behind , really helps me while going through a really rough time myself .... , THANK YOU .
dam good job you are a good mechanic and pride in your work I know a good one after 30 years working them over and still do thank you.
Thanks!
With that head torque process it's no wonder they blow up! lol. Great work, it was a fun series. Thanks.
From Midland, Texas used to live in Highland Falls, New York just outside of West Point and I miss New York… lots and lots sometimes unbearably so, especially in the winter with the snow. This video is particularly …..anyway I thinkyou understand ❤NY what I mean God bless you and your family and thank you for your insight and wisdom and for your gift of making these videos an informative and entertaining and educational proposition, it is helpful in my effort to cross train myself at 74 years old, into lifelong hubby of Automotive diagnostics and do all of my own work on my Ford F150 5.4 L triton engine And Chevy cobalt 2.2 L thank you John Soper my dad was a professor at West Point and I lived on the base for years and we lived on round Pond mountain and our blazer was the only one that could get up and down the hill in the deep snows We had. There were a couple of Broncos didn’t do so well relatively speaking.
I put on my skis and skied to work from the mountain Top down to West Point where they have a ski slope on base where I worked as a winter ski slope employee making artificial snow in the winter and in the summer working as a lifeguard driving a jeep around West Pointfrom pool to pool it was a wonderful time that viewing your video with the snow brought back all those wonderful memories. Thank you so much. Talk to you again sometime.
Loved this series! Long videos are fine with me. Learned a lot! I always wondered how to clean out the overflow and expansion tanks, the chain rocks! Those torque wrenches are so hot.
Stanley Hill Yep you can use small rocks, nuts and bolts, any thing really....
Awesome series of vids. This was the best breakdown of the process I've seen on TH-cam. Love the fact you didn't edit any of the steps down. Doing a timing belt kit and driver side head on my 03 Forester this weekend. This answered a lot of questions!
Jeremy Couturier Good glad it helped!
Hard to find a onest ,good and reliable mechanic these days good one mate
Great series, Eric. And so glad you’ve stopped that annoying use of “go ahead and ...” all the time in your later videos. 👍
Thank you for your wonderful job filming this series. I think I have the confidence to do my own headgasket job now. Thanks so much!
I watched all 5!
I'm hooked! Watched all 5 and enjoyed each one. Thank you for doing these videos.
I bought a used '08 Impreza last year. Knew nothing about buying a used car, it ran well and looked pretty so that sealed the deal for me. About 2 months driving it, I find that all the fluids, diffs and trans were black, even had orange coolant in it! when its supposed to be blue! Ive so far DIYed every service on the car - including the timing belt job - it was cheaper to buy all the tools, and invest a little time to learn, and I love every minute I spend in my garage! My steering rack and pinion are leaking on my driveway right now, waiting on the piece to come into the shop to pick it up! Videos like this are saving me a ton! Liked and subscribed! #toolgoals #thankyousir
Great video Bro.. I was going to pull the motor but after watching this I will try your method first.. Very informative, comfortable narrative void of any expletives ... enjoyed meeting your daughter momentarily.. thank your very much for submitting this video...
Tony York Cool , good luck on yours let me know if I can help :)
Excellent series, nothing but good things to say. Long series is perfect, cause I get to see the whole job thru. It is awesome that you go above and beyond . Looking forward to more great videos.. Thank you Eric...
***** Cool glad you liked them and they were helpful
South Main Auto Repair how common is the head gasket failures on the ez30 6 cylinder motors ? what are the signs the gasket is failing. atm i think i smell coolant. but i see that my oil cooler is leaking oil. i just picked up the oil cooler gasket.
wax333 apart from that car runs perfectly fine no hesitations or anything. just worried about the white steam atm it is winter here in nz atm
I can't say I have seen one of those fail yet
Instead of saying you screwed up at the end by leaving those throttle body coolant hose off, you could have said, "here's a neat trick to bleed the air out of the system, by leaving the hose off until you see coolant coming out"....lol. Great series, makes me want to go out and buy a boxer engine car. Looks like changing timing belt and water pump is a snap on these engine.
Late to the video party but enjoyed the whole series. Like to see jobs from start to finish. Thanks again Eric
Eric great job did one 25 years ago today's engines are more crowded , enjoyed your good work just catching up.
What a labor of love you've done here! This is a great series. I'm jealous of your torque wrench! And that line on the belt was WAY off. Never seen one that far off. I try to get Gates for these when I can. I'm doing an 07 EJ253 right now with the dropped guides and a bent valve. It's got that special variable intake valve- animal/thumb trap. It's like gun smithing getting that thing on there. Great work- I'm going to have to refer folks to this series. I think I'll do some pieces on this 07 and send people here for the detail. Good luck on the employee issues.
briansmobile1 Hey Brian good to here from you. Make sure on the '06 up Soobies you have the guides staked in when you get them replaced and I suggest replacing all of them. They have some serious oil consumption issues and tend to migrate out if you don't. Let me guess 1 and 3 exhaust valves? I'd be willing to ship up the torque wrench for you to barrow if you'd like :) Any how there is a little trick to those heads when you are reassembling the cams but it can be done pretty easy with out the "special tool" . At any rate give me a shout any time if you wanna bounce stuff back and forth. Later,
--Eric O.
@@SouthMainAuto p.
Dont know if anyone gives a shit but if you're bored like me during the covid times then you can watch pretty much all of the new series on instaflixxer. Have been binge watching with my brother recently =)
@Finnley London Yea, I have been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself :)
Brian’smobile was the first automotive channel I started watching on TH-cam!
I gotta say Eric, this is great stuff! Real reality TV. I'm not a professional tech; I work on my own cars and friends and family's cars (worse than doing it professionally...no good dead goes unpunished). Love the tips and tricks like the hose pick. I've f'ed with stuck on hoses and damaged them with pliers. Keep on makin vids and I will watch them. Thanks.
Hey thanks *****. Oh man how did you get suckered into family and friends mechanic? I know from experience that is not a high paying job haha. Glad you can take away a lil from each video.
the long videos are the best ones because they show the whole process. i like em
Forgetting to hook up the coolant lines to the Throttle Body is a very minor infraction. In fact, it's not even a blip on the FU meter. Pretty much except for rebuilding the engine, this is about as big a job as you're gonna do on a Subaru.
As it is, my hat's off to you. I actually watched all 5 parts of this series instead of watching a movie and I have no regrets on that score. It was damn entertaining. I watched it because I'm considering replacing my left side Head Gasket on my Subie and I'm a lot closer than before to deciding to actually do it myself so Thank You for that.
Before watching your 5 videos I thought I might be able to do it but now I'm convinced that I can. I simply can't afford to have a mechanic do it. The only thing holding me back is having the possible 3 or 4 days to do it and convincing a friend to let me use their driveway for a couple of days.
If I lived near you and could afford a mechanic, I'd have you fix my car for sure.
Thanks for your expertise my friend.
Really enjoyed watching this series, and learned a few things along the way.
Rakatawhat Well good that was the intention :)
Awesome job on your videos bud, I work with Subaru's, Mitsubishi's, Nissan's, Toyota's and some VW, Audi and BMW for a living. Mainly in the performance field of things. But I also do routine and regular scheduled maintenance. I think you do an awesome job with explanations and showing the different types of tools you use for each of your jobs. I really liked those MAC cam gear pliers you have, gonna have to get myself a set of those. All in all great job, especially for someone who isn't factory trained and or certified. You did things very closely to the way I would have. Keep up the great work.
Chad
Hey Chad thanks for that. Yeah you can never have to many tools ya know ha. If there is any advise or tips you can throw out there feel free to lay them down. I am always in the mood for learning. You don't work on Honda's too? I love my Honda's, Toyota's and Subaru's. They are my 3 fav to work on and it is what I get in my shop a lot because we live in a pretty small town and a lot of local shops don't like "them there jap cars" haha
Mainly I work with the cars with factory forced induction, work on a ton of Subaru WRX and WRX STi, Forester XT's Mitsubishi Evolution's and Ralliart's. I'll get the occasional Domestic in, like a Cobalt SS or Dodge Neon SRT 4. But my main specialty is performance upgrades for Subaru, Mitsubishi, Nissan and VW/Audi. The shop I'm at works with everything from general repair of these cars, all the way to swapping in performance cams, bigger turbochargers, larger fuel injectors and fuel pumps to complete ECU recalibration for said parts on a chassis dyno. I honestly enjoy wrenching on the vehicles with hard parts, more than I do EFI calibration. So it's always fun for me to see your videos. And if I have any tips I'll be sure to pass them along to you no problem, but your already doing a great job to begin with Eric. If you ever have a vehicle that is modified, or maybe a performance vehicle such as a WRX or equivalent come into your shop and your stumped on something, don't hesitate to drop me a line, us techs gotta stick together, help each other out and learn from one another! I learn a bunch of stuff from you when it comes to trucks and SUV stuff, and I thank you for that.
Regards, Chad
Hey Chad I will def keep that in mind! Sounds like a real fun place to work. Lets see I work on really old stuff that is usually really rusty and smells bad on the inside haha. Not as appealing is it? Be cool to see your shop someday. We don't have anything like that around here. Pretty small town. Most shops around here are still sad because the carburetor and points days are gone. Don't even talk to them about GDI or forced injection haha.
Well the ironic thing about your small town your in is this, I was born about a half an hour away from your shop in Corning NY. So I'm pretty sure if I gave my mother a call and asked her about what it was like in small town NY, I'd hear some stories haha. And as far as rust belt work, I feel ya there too, lived in Pittsburgh most of my life specially during my dealership days, before heading south.
That's funny haha in 1979 I was born in Corning Hospital too! Small world huh!? PA huh, oh yeah so you know rust too. Really glad to meet you Chad.
Absolutely excellent 5-part video series on Subaru Head Gasket replacement. Thank you for your professionalism and for making the time and effort to make these videos.
Great job on sub you are the man wish we had some around here you don't find mechanic's like you very often.
Great job !!! Thanks for your insight. And cool torque wrench!!
Came here from briansmobile1 enjoyed this series thanks subscribed to you, now going to watch your other vids
Scott Jacobson Great thanks for the sub man! Was pretty cool of Brian to give me props like that :)
I like what your doing. No complaints from this shadetree.
Thanks nswst8 :)
It's a pleasure to watch some one that loves his work and cares.
That was awesome! I hope I can finish strong. Great work!
Watched all 5 parts. Nice series.
+The On Grid Homestead Thank you
It’s been a wet and windy afternoon in Scotland. I’ve just watched all five episodes, great job, methodical process and tweakery. Kudos for screening the things you missed. Thanks
I forgot to mention that I have fixed my own vehicles for years and for big repairs it's a bit scary sometimes. There's always the worry that I'll get into it and screw something up and then be stuck and end up having to pay even more than I would have if I just had a Pro do it from the start. That's never happened.
You said you've been doing this since you were a kid. I'm old now and I've had many mechanics in my life so it doesn't take me long at all to size one up and know if he's good or not. You're one of the good ones. I can tell by how you approach everything.
\All of your 5 videos were very well done. You included everything you had to include to guide those of us who tackle jobs like this for ourselves. Any more information would have been overkill because, let's face it, this is not the kind of repair that a tinkerer could handle.
I've done some serious big repairs on my vehicles that most people wouldn't consider doing for themselves.
Just about everything you talked about in these 5 videos was necessary information with just enough extra chatter to make it real. The only thing you really didn't need, in my opinion, was when you talked about keeping everything organized as you took everything apart. Anyone attempting a job like this should have figured that out already. If they haven't, they're probably not ready to do a job like this anyway. Just my opinion!
Again, Thanks a lot!
Thanks for taking time to make this video.
Excellent series, thank you for making it.
YW Thanks for watching :)
Awesome , I'm doing my 03outback head gaskets I have it apart now with motor still in the car I'm now waiting to save up money for resurfacing and all gaskets and hoping I remember how to put it back together
I'm not sure where I pulled the drivers side ground wire that attached from rear fire wall to motor?
I wish you were here to do mine
This is my first very big job on a car
I laid down to take a nap and slept through this entire thing!
Amazing!! I have watched for years and your integrity has never been in question. This is a Mark of a great human and a great mechanic. Bravo on another job well done. We appreciate your hard work.
Great video series....kilmer would of had all this info crammed into a 5 minute video LOL...even the other "eric" thats big on youtube wouldnt of had this good of a video series
This video series is how video series should be done. It's excellent. Not much to improve upon other than posting torque spec title overlays as you go. If you have the spec sheet as you edit it's not much more work, video is more professional, and gives the viewer something more to look at. Camera work is superb.
Think about adding a gorillapod if you don't have one already. I have a tripod and a gorilla pod. Think I'll shoot a short video that shows how I use my gorillapod. Will open up new possible shots for you. For example when taking out a wheel bearing snap ring you could have the camera inside the wheel well (not in your way) so we can see you use the impact hammer on the ring. I'm sure you'll find it very useful to increase your production value.
Sounds interesting. Let me know if you do do a video showing that off...
I just use a cheap Sony HandyCam so I am not sure how much abuse they will take. When it breaks I'd like to get one with a remote mic.
The weight and size can present issues. Thanks for bringing that up. I wouldn't have thought about that because I'm so used to using a cellphone style video recorder (Kodak Playsport ZX5).
Thanks sooo much for a thorough job video. My 19 yr old daughter bought her first car, a Forester. The seller, a trusted Subaru only mechanic of 30 some years replaced the engine with one that has 130,000 on it. Did many extras like tires, water pump, brakes all around, etc. Didn't do the heads on the replacement engine.(!??!??) I know it's coming, and no one around here has another two grand to put in the car. The previous TH-cam videos I watched pulled the engine; one showed a very tight and tedious head removal. I was very unenthusiastic until I found this on your already much watched and much appreciated channel. I feel better to do the job; still unenthusiastic. I was going to go there anyway, but now I feel much more relaxed about it. Really liked the 5 parts. I appreciate your work ethic and focus, and sharing the work with all of us. Thanks, SMA!
It would be an answer to prayer if Eric became a automotive technician teacher. I can't think of anyone more qualified to teach.
how much would this job cost? would like to do it myself but wonder how much a shop would do it for? head gasket timing belt water pump $?
Subaru charged me almost 2000 to do just the head gaskets at 66000 miles. No head work and no pump thermostat hoses or timing gear. If I were to guess from a dealer this exact job 3000
Edit- oh a local shop for just the gaskets without head work or anything else 800 to 1000
I don't know about this channel....no yelling.. no dark glasses.. Huh? Wait.. what am I saying.....
Hey man I can jump out of a garbage can and show you how to change an engine using a spork , straw and a napkin if you like... oh in under a minute and a half too...
I can't stop laughing...stop!
I grew up in upstate NY so it's cool to go on these test rides. Brings back memories.
HEY Eric: My son's suby was leakin' & pukin, we pulled the engine out and it sat on the bench apart for almost a year. Then my wife and I ordered the parts in, watched your 5 part series and put it back together. It started on the first crank, been running for a year now, still purrs. Thanks SO MUCH, your video was great, enjoyable as well as informative and really well done. all the best.
Well there ya go! lad to hear a success story!
Ive been "studying" the HG job for a bit now. Still trying to get to point where i feel confident enough to do it myself.
This series definetely filled in some significant gaps. You're the boss!! Subd.
Excellent video series. I watched all 5 front to back. Excellent job with all the shots, very clear. Love the talk about tools and reasoning why you do things the way you do. Very good sir. Thanks.
This series helped me through my own Subaru head gasket replacement effort. 10K miles so far and no leaks! Thanks!
Though I work on cars for many years there is always something to learn a trick or two I have seen some sloppy so-called mechanics in and out of you tube you are a professional indeed