Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:57:23 -0700
Reply-To: "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
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From: "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
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My stock 91 had drooling headgaskets.
I used the Red Moroso Ceramic Engine Sealer with pure water.
Then with coolant kept adding capfuls of the blue version; the All Weather Seal.
IronTite is probably the same thing.
Drove from CA to FL to NY to Ohio to CA and for many years drove like that in CA.
The greenish drool of the gaskets became a clay color.
The metal of the radiator self sealed cracks.
My radiator bleeder sealed itself I ended up stripping it, so I covered the whole thing with epoxy from a truck stop and just bleed it by burping the rear when elevated.
The weep hole of the water pump sealed itself and the water pump kept working fine.
It was nerve wracking, but it seemed to work.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone though. Better to spend the money on a fresh conversion than to suffer the fear of thrown rods.
Biggest problem I've had with the conversion has been excessive burning of oil.
Hope to get another engine and avoid the consumption of oil. Lots of oil leaks have been repaired. More than the stock engine. Maybe I really need an oil pressure gauge.
And currently I'm constantly losing coolant. I have to wonder if it's the water pump. Someone changed my timing belt without changing the water pump. Bad choice since it's a Subaru 2.2
They should have asked me. It should have been obvious I was well overdue for the timing belt, so the the water pump should have been at least questioned.
The overflow tank has a steam release at the top, and it keeps getting hot enough to steam right out.
It never ever use to do that.
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Jon VO <jondvo@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> A friend had about 190K on his '86 Syncro engine, but the heads needed
> reseal & valve guides. I was told the later models '89-'91 did not have
> the same head seal issue, and may be candidates for high miles. As I
> recall, there was no '88 US model due to poor sales?
> Jon
>
>
>> On 3/18/2015 8:02 PM, Ben wrote:
>> I had 386K miles on my '87 before the heads sprung an external leak. I decided not to reseal only because a very low mileage inline-4 was made available to me for a conversion. The shop who took the engine in as a core decided it was better to rebuild the bottom end, just to be safe.
>>
>>
>> BenT
>> sent from my electronic leash
>>
>>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 6:56 PM, Jon VO <jondvo@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, whom has the most miles on an original WBX? 240K seems like a winner
>>> here....
