Blue Devil Failed! You Recommended K-Seal, Will It Work & Seal The Forester's Head Gasket Leak?!
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Aren't you supposed to allow the engine to cool down. The bottle says it requires a heating cycle.
K seal worked on my truck. Been 4 years and still going .
Flat top?
Putting the radiator cap on and letting the cooling system come up to pressure may work. That will help force the product into the head gasket.
Pretty sure none of these products will work without several cycles under cooling system pressure. No way for the stuff to get into the head gasket while the cylinders are under higher pressure.
That is exactly right, common sense, very hard to find nowadays
K-seal pour-n-go is another rockstar, put it in a 4Runner Straight into the coolant and let it run through the whole system, heater, core and all I think it was less than three minutes. Everything was fixed the hole in the radiator and the head gasket. This is just idling at temperature. This was six months and 4500 miles ago You’d never know there was anything wrong with it
None of them will work lol I've seen it hundreds of times not work and ruin the cooling system and even engines
@@zacharywiggins3768 Hundreds of times?
@@stopher1971 He look like a Mechanic , they don't like snake oil. lol
In 1958 the USS Nautilus had a leaking condenser onboard - it was critical to repair the leak as the ship was about to make the famous transit under water and across the North Pole. The Captain had the crew scour around Seattle for Stop Leak (now Bars Leak), a radiator leak stopper for cooling systems. 140 quarts were found and added; the system sealed and the Nautilus made its historic voyage without any further problem. But, a bit different from a Subaru head gasket leak...
K seal sorted out the leak in my head gasket on a Primera P11 years ago. I drove it another 30,000 miles or so and it was still running when I sold it. That was a 2.0L and about 170bph. On my H6 Legacy Spec B though (model year 2008) it didn't work. Worked initally but within about 200 miles the plug would fail! Ended up selling it to them traders that pay jack-all...
I have used K-Seal on 2 Toyota's and 1 Saturn radiator leak and it worked each time and still holding strong. I have the radiators on hand but since the K-Seal worked I have left them alone! Never tried head gasket in a bottle though!
I tried the rislone, nulon and k-seal head gasket fix and none of those fixed the issue on my Subaru liberty(legacy). I tried in other engines like GM Cruze and ford focus and it worked great. I think it is something related with the horizontal boxer engine design.
Subaru's & head gaskets.. drove mine for years with leaking head gasket..
I hate using chit like that...but I have used it. In my 2001 Forester it let me drive for 2 more years before another problem made me swap in a rebuilt engine. I would recommend using way less than recommended and later work more in as needed
I've used K&w fiber lock many times that will definitely fix it!
bars leak is the only one ive used in a pinch when i had a old 04 legacy, it held up after use for about 2 years before it gave out and started to overheat again.
i didnt care much to repair the car since at the time i lived in ny and it was practically rusted through, cant complain for it lasting just a bit longer since it was gonna go out whether the chassis or motor gave out first
2 big bottles of Barr's Stop Leak and running for an hour works every time. My ex's car was smoking, did that and it ran for another 3 years before trading it in.
RIP to the sucker who bought your vehicle.
@@jnorris32😂😂😂😂😂
Bars worked for me too, but destroyed my radiator and heater in the process
We had a small leak in our Nissan Xtrail in the past and used sealant from Liqui Moly with some glittery stuff inside of it. I can't find it online right now, but I can tell you how it worked. So maybe, just maybe, this stuff works the same.
At first, coolant was still leaking even after recommended 30 minutes of driving, so we just kept adding distilled water and after maybe 200-300 kilometers, it stopped leaking and lasted about 2 years. After those 2 years, it started leaking a little bit again and we repeated the same process and again, after 200-300 kilometers, it sealed everything up.
Air bubbles does not mean it didnt work, when you bleed coolant system its going to release air pockets.. if it was bubbling like a soap bath then you have a oil mix/ exhaust fume.
I'd like to see a follow-up video in a week or so. Interesting content regardless of the outcome.
This test was not done properly
Let the system cool and then test again
No it wasn't. Your right about that
He mentions that the instructions are simple, then proceeds to not follow them.
Used the regular KSeal to stop a slow heater core leak probably five years ago. Still holding strong! That is too bad that the KSeal head gasket sealer didnt work.
I think it did work through bubbles he saw looked like burping of the coolant system, remember he just filled it after a drain
K Seal worked on my Hyundai Head Gasket, still working ! CRC didn't work at all. Take the thermostat out before you pour the sealer into the cooling system.
The devil and bars head gasket or block seal always works for me
K-SEAL DOES WORK if you DO IT RIGHT! terrible FUD on a great product
i am sure you WANTED them to fail.
I would say that nothing works better than an actual head gasket. No matter what a head gasket will be needed at some point in time. Thank for the video.👍 When you put a head gasket in that car, can you show what procedure is for changing the starter?
i've been running blue devil for over a month (not overheating , just small compression leak/skip on startup) with no change , except it swelled the seal on my radiator cap . now i have to open the cap when cold to let overflow tank refill radiator .
Lol... I ended up using so many bottles over so many intervals (200 miles a time with a fresh flush) that I eventually clogged up the radiator/heater core. It stopped blowing out hot air through some of the vents...
Bars works , did on my 2001 legacy, dont pinch off the heater hoses , and run it with heat on high
I just used the same kseal and it worked on my 2012 Subaru Impreza.
I put new head gaskets in my moms Subaru had the heads done used mls head gaskets and it still leaked no cracks in block i think the block warps on Subaru engines sometimes i tore it out and swapped it from 2.5 to 2.2 worked great little underpowered but better reliability
Well you're looking for a magic fix in a bottle, over the pond here in the Uk try Steel Seal. An engineer gave me this tip years ago
& I swear by it ! Out of all the times i've used it ,it has only failed once on a seriously overheated head gasket. About ten years
ago I had a hair line crack in my cylinder head by No.1 injector, tried Steel seal and it fixed it.Have never had the problem reoccur. It's
made here in the UK but hope you give it a try if it's available over there ?
Really appreciate your video's & advise, please keep them coming. Julian.
Love your video. I was looking for video you replacing head gasket for this car but didn't find it.
I have question, my Forester 120K is currently having valve cover oil leak on passenger side, told by dealership but I think both sides are leak by looking at it. In the past couple years I have to fill oil approximately 3/4 quart per 3000 miles.
Should I have it repair now which is quite expensive or should I just wait for head gasket to fail and do both at the same time?
I actually seen that blue devil stuff seal a head gasket on a 3.4 impala that had a misfire from the head gasket being bad. It was a customer that didnt want to pay to fix it and I told him if you use that crap its gonna cost you more money because that stuff gets everywhere in the system. When he brought it back a week later i took the heads off and you could see where the sealer did seal where the gasket failed there was all this hard white stuff around it so the sealer must cure when it gets to exhaust gasses. The sealer plugged up the water jackets around that cylinder so it obviously got hot and made the sealer fail lol.
Try Sodium Silicate and water mix aka water glass i bet its gone after that as they dont sell it anymore in stores. Ive used it before on a 96 grand prix with a 3.1 and my sister drove it for about 10 years.
She sold the car and i used to see it around.
Also you have to put the cap on after you get most of the air to stop then drive it around for a day, check it the next day and it theres no more bubbles, then drain the system completely and the sit with the hoses off to let and circulate through the system over night. They add 50/50 mix bleed and all should be well.
That Blue Devil Pour & Go worked in my 2009 2.5 Legacy but heater still works only half way lol.
I put an older version of k seal in an 03 legacy and it's still running. Coolant level is ok, but won't sink money into a car this old. Had 2 gasket jobs beand they both failed...
It takes a while to fully seal leaks in radiator anyways I used 2 or 3 bottles plastic at top is cracked. Finally leaks stopped but took a long time just drove it around while keeping coolant level topped up. Total time was over a 4 week time frame first it would stop leaks interemintally then when not completely full then when topped off it would squirter coolant but now has stopped for about a week, I imagine that head gasket may be even more difficult to seal but maybe it would eventually help but I've only used the standard k seal for radiator leak at top plastic housing area horizontal Crack in middle I hope I didn't add too much and won't add any more because I am worried about clogging issues or water pump seizing but for now all good
I used the quart sized blue devil on an 07 gmc 5.3L that was using over a half gallon of coolant every week. I removed the thermostat, crimped off the heater hoses and poured the blue devil into the engine via the upper radiator hose. Topped off the system with water and ran at idle for an hour. When cooled i put the system back together with new coolant. It took two long (20 mile) drives to get it to stop using coolant. So far I've put 500 miles on it, and the coolant has stayed at the same level. Fingers crossed i get a year or more out of it.
I used one of the small bottles of K-seal and it stopped antifreeze from entering my oil. Didn't clog heater core or radiator or thermostat. 6k miles later and no issues. Though I did flush it 300 miles after using k-seal.
Blue Devil, the 'Pour and Go" formulation failed my blown head gasket. Problem w. that product (and possibly K-Seal as well?) is that it is only sodium silicate/liquid glass w/o anything else added to it to increase its sealing properties. I'm about to try the "Professional" blown head gasket product made by Bar's Leak to see if it in fact works. It contains carbon fibers (think "Kevlar") in addition to the usual sodium silicate in order to quickly work on sealing up the leak(s) w/i 15 minutes or so of running, vs. the B.D.-type products that require up to almost an hour of running time to start working.
What if you use a 2nd ? since 1 reduced the bubbling
Did you replace the leaky water pump first? Maybe the bubbles you are seeing are the result of air getting into the system via the water pump weep hole??
When are you replacing the head Gasket. I just got a 2011 Forester that runs so well I thought it turned itself off when I came to a light. Unfortunately it looks like it needs a head gasket. Bubbling in the overflow and my combustion gas detector fluid turned from blue to yellow. 😵💫I was going to give this to my son as his first car but the used FB engines are not cheap.
I think no matter which product. If your getting combustion gas in cooling system - find the cylinder and remove the plug and heat up/cool down 4-5 times then let cure 24 hours. Most of the products include theses steps under advanced applications.
The only time any sealant works is when you have a slight leak...and I mean slight...its nothing but a band aid...I do know of a man who used blue devil 10 years ago and it still holding..
MrSubaru1387 Wrong video question but; I am looking at the Gearwrench - 81264A-07 vs TONE RH3CH 3/8" (Which I believe you mentioned in a separate video). Would you say one is better or easier than the other?? That is, for EJ257 plugs? Thank you..
It depends on location of leak. If leak is around exhaust side its difficult to fill the gap because too much pressure.
I know it works but you do have to cap it and run it some work some don’t depending on how bad the leak is
Try 4 tablespoons of black pepper, always worked for me
I tried barts stop leak on a toyota that a head gasket had went and it did absolutely nothing, may have helped the smoke output by a touch but otherwise looked like a train..
Your doing it wrong! But that’s fine Call it snake oil.
I’ll keep driving my 13 forester with 320k and k seal in it since 278k
Blue devil worked for me just throw it in and drive it around like normal and dont drain it. Needs the system to pressurize to work the best and when i did it took about a week of driving to fully fix the head gasket. Yes not a permanent fix but it will get you by in the mean time and didnt matter in my instence after about a year and half after the head gasket went south the trans crapped out and then i sold it as is
Might having the Radiator cap on and the additional 13PSI pressure differential make a difference in how they work?
We’ll see. Still in the car. I’ll try it some more.
That was my thought; how do you know that the bubbles aren't just boiling water? I know the temp sensor said 186F, but could be localized areas hotter than that.
@@MrSubaru1387 Drive the car a few times and let it fully cool down in between. I've seen that work until we could pull the engine (EJ) and give it all the love.
Maybe he needs to close the cap and let the pressure build before he makes a judgment call
I never used combustion leak fluid till the last couple years. But I can find head gasket issues through this very method months, if not years before it's truly a problem. I bought my v10 excursion 3.5 years ago with a weak head gasket, drove it for 2 years before I was seriously suspicious. Leak check fluid never picked up CO or CO2 but a power brake would make it volcano out of the degassing bottle. It went over a year from that date before any leak check fluid would pick it up.
Before anyone says "it's the fluid" I had universal blue point and the gasoline specific from the parts store.
Why does 'Chris Fix' say Some Of This Stuff Works? 🤔
I followed the instructions to the letter , and my dodge Avenger went from sputtering under acceleration to going strong within two runs down the highway to and fro work .
You need to determine what cylinder has the head gasket leaking and pull the spark plug. Run it with the plug out and radiator cap on.
Could you elaborate on why pulling the spark plug works better? im about to test this out. Thanks!
Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the additive? It needs heat from the combustion chamber to "activate" the additive to make a solid plug. By activate I mean burn off the water leaving behind the silicate plug.
exactly... pulling the plug from the offending cylinder relieves pressure build up and allows the K seal to do its job ...great point mate!
i replied to it
@@Stragunafen
Yes the combustion gases overpressurizes the coolant system. It will never I mean never work unless you find the cylinder (s) that is or are affected and let vent to atmosphere during application I've sealed big leaks in cylinders with just about all of the head gasket fixes even the old ones. Food for thought.
Good video
you have to use regular Blue devil not pour and go i chalk this up to use the error I have used regular blue devil on more than 400 applications and it has worked a lot of times
Do you want to try bars leak at some point?
Would this repair a cracked cylinder block on a diesel car?
Got to have some patience. Drive it around for a while may be a week then see.
Didn’t the instructions say that it works under a pressure difference, meaning that you would’ve had to put the radiator cap on to build pressure so that I could find the pressure drop where it’s leaking
No pressure in the cooling system vs 100+ psi being interjected into said cooling system via a compression to coolant leak. I’d say that’s a heck of a pressure difference.
@@MrSubaru1387 When you shut off the engine, the coolant is pressurized and the cylinder is not. I've read some comments that say to take the spark plug out and unplug the fuel injector and run it.
Steel seal is a better alternative then k seal when it comes to head gasket leaks from my experience. for the folks who want a cheap solution to a major problem just have to drain all coolant fill with regular water/ steel seal and let run for 1 hour with heat on max; turn off let sit overnight then check results following day. Results vary.
That junk totally clogged my radiator on a Honda that I used to own. Nothing worked except replacing the head gasket.
How did you verify the head gasket is actually leaking? Its normal to have the small amount of bubbles in cooling system since the system was drained. Vacuum filling cooling system doesn't remove 100% of air from cooling system. (example air trapped in hose between valve and container with new 50/50 coolant). Have you verified combustible gas in cooling system with chemical test?
So its okay to go through The Radiator But not good for Heater Core Hmmm okay
Do the Subaru 2.0 engines commonly blow head gaskets? Have a 2013 crosstrek that i need to add coolant too every two weeks or so with no noticeable external leaks. Have not dug into trying to find the cause yet was just wondering if its common for the 2.0s to have head gasket problems.
It's the 2.5 that have most of the problemo
Do you still have this car? Give Bar's HG-1 a try. It worked for me (for now) where the K-Seal Ultimate failed. The regular K-Seal worked for about 3 months but then it started leaking coolant again, so I tried the Ultimate, didn't work at all. As a last-ditch effort tried the Bar's HG-1 and it has been holding up so far (knock on wood).
So where's the follow-up video from the next day I know this stuff works I've used it on many vehicles it also depends on the severity of the head gasket blowing now looking at your video with those little tiny air bubbles That's not a an issue it's still pushing air out of the system if it was still blown head gasket that water would be blowing out of that funnel
I want to see the bars leaks product. You know the stuff that looks like liquid metal
I put it in a 2.0 dodge dart and drove it for 3 years until it finally blew and warped the head.
yeah i do believe you need pressure in the system.. plus i have seen gasket leak fixers work. so maybe you are doing it wrong.. no pressure in the system or. yours is jus to bad for it to work.. like i said i have seen it work for someppl.
Need to have cap on?
Mr subaru , have you had any luck with sealants that stop engine oil dripping?
Try the Liqui Molly Oil Saver
Went from using a quart every two weeks to a quart every other month
@@shadythereok I usually don't have to add oil but it's always a slow leak after driving, tried STP and no luck
@Avvura
Google Liqui Molly, they have many products. Really interesting company with their research and all, be safe
K seal worked for me. Took a days driving though. Jeep grand cherokee v6 3.6 liter. Heater and aircon on full blast.
Was this with exhaust gases getting into the coolant or coolant in the oil
Aren't these all temp fix type things regardless, even if they do work
It would work best
To get home?
Get home for full rebuild
Hmmm, then coolant flush and replace radiator and heater core? Just tow it and do it right😎?
Ive tried everything. I don't have oil in the radiator. Nor water in the oil. I do lose a little coolant in the radiator over a few hundred miles. I just keep it filled. It also doesn't draw from the overflow. I'm assuming there is not enough vacuum when the engine cools to draw out of the tank? The tube from the tank is clear and it has a new radiator cap.
I have the same issue. It has me stumped on a 2004 Forrester with 212,000 miles. Compression is A-OK. Cylinder leak down test is A-OK. No bubbles in radiator, no air sounds from the dip stick, same with the tail pipe and throttle body. My little Subi is a "tight" engine. But there is a leak behind #4 cylinder near the bottom of the EGR tube.
same as my 3ZRfe Toyota
3:06 sounds like the suction at the dentist 😖
I had to switch to blue devil and that did the job
I've taken an engine apart that had that stuff in it, and you could see how it was "trying" to work. It had copper deposits around the leaking areas, but wasn't good enough to seal. IMO, that stuff is a waste of time and money and gets that crap all through the cooling system, engine ports, hoses, water pump, heater coil and all. BTW, same with the heater coil leaks. If it is a last attempt and you are not going to pull the engine apart anyway, I guess you have nothing to lose if you are going to junk the car.
Im pretty sure you need to let it cool down to solidify
Think it depends on the slant of the engine
I purchased steel seal off of Amazon...works.. but haven't driven over 45 mph..😅
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Take it up to 80.
From what i know k seal works when the System is presurized with the cap essentially the system isnt heating up or even Presurizing high enough to cook the k seal into the Cracks and Crevices of the leak its supose to crystalize at a specific temp from the pressure @MrSubaru1387
try bars stop leak with carbon fiber
Are ya exit 59 there at swannanoa
Did you clean the blue devil out because now its all mixed together also it takes a few heat cycles 🤔👍
I flushed between.
@@MrSubaru1387 yes I cant argue with that good job 😁👍
I'm about to use it on my Nissan Sentra 2005. I will post a video to prove what I'm saying. I'll probably be back in 4 or 5 days.
What if my car will not stay crank unless I stay pushing the gas pedal. But it’s just a coolant leak
Used k seal on my old 96 wagon with 2.5l dohc...it worked.
Did you take out the thermostat before pouring those products in the system top radiator hose directly to the head my guy you kinda did it wrong my guy
Bars works 100 percent just take out the thermostat and run it a week normal no more than 45 min drive than (change oil) don’t put the thermostat on run it like 2 normal drive so that sealant heats up and goes everywhere that needs to seal and you should be good I did it worked fine 🎉
I used regular oil from a snake and it worked and even made me 100 friends on myspace.
K-seal worked somewhat for 1 day
Def don’t use it if your coolant is sucked out like a vacuum, that I can tell you! 😆
RIP 2008 Ford Edge 191k miles
Recommend anything for leaking rear main seal? 🤔
Replace rear main seal
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I thought a blown head gasket would actually push coolant out of the radiator
Wow ,it’s not the sealer it’s the guy using it.😂a guy who makes money taking engines apart may be biased.😂😂
K&W Fiberlock ftw made by CRC products
It would have been cheaper to put sodium silicate concrete sealer in it. It'll probably work the the same as Blue Devil and k sealer sodium silicate is the special ingredient in all that snake oil
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