Subaru wheel bearings Explained part 2. Pictured below is what is called a captured wheel bearing. And here is a wheel bearing and hub assembly. Rather than the bearing being pressed into the knuckle assembly it now bolts in with the choice of replacing the entire unit hub and all(the part the wheel bolts up […]
One of the questions I get a lot is “can I add some stop leak” I have never found anything in a bottle that will resolve what happens to a Subaru Head gasket. I took some pictures from a Subaru Outback in the shop today that had some stop leak put in, only to over heat the next day. […]
Like I have posted, and will continue to do so as time and information allows is that it seems that Subaru has finally gone to a MLS Head gasket for the 2010 Outback. above are the differences between a semi closed and open deck block, and while I wont know until we take one apart, it appears […]
This comes up a lot both for our Local customers, and we get a lot of questions about this from afar. The old saying a picture is worth a thousand words, I think a video with a little sound is worth many more. I did make a mistake about the green aftermarket idlers we see […]
When we do Brakes on Your Subaru, we do them right, the way Subaru intended and always avoid the problems in this video. Above is just a quick video I shot this weekend, about some of our local customers finding us after they have had brakes done at a tire store, with less than satisfactory […]
I wanted to post a few pictures and let everyone know that Subaru has finally changed the head gasket design for the 2010 models 2.5L N/A (Naturally Aspirated) models. The gasket pictured below resembles the Head Gasket used in the Turbo models, the Tribeca, as well as the 2nd generation 2.2l and the updated gasket […]
One of the more recent trends on the 2005 and newer platforms is for the head lights to live a very short life. There are a few reasons as to why this happens. One of the key reasons the bulbs don’t last, is that the lights spend a lot of time on, which over time weakens […]
A couple of common things you may not know about your Subaru.
Your Subaru Wheel bearings Explained. So there are many models of Subaru, many different platforms, or generations. I will have to break this up into more than one article or it will be just too hard to follow. This first article will focus on the Subaru Forester, but many of the Subaru models use the […]
Subaru practices lean manufacturing, and as a result if they can eliminate part numbers to keep things simple they will greatly lower their costs, but there are some unintended consequences sometimes. Nowhere is this more obvious than their oil filters and how they have changed, superseded and morphed through the last few years. The O.E. […]