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- From: ycheah@hamp.hampshire.edu
- Subject: Re: Subaru billows white smoke...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.200519.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:05:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.064230.20002@mr.med.ge.com>, hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
- > Possibilities, in order of "let's hope".
- >
- > 1> head gasket
- > 2> cracked head
- >
- > That's about all I can think of....sounds like you aren't gonna be selling it
- > for as much as you thought, sorry. If it's a gasket, though, you can probably
- > do it yourself and still get some $$ for it, but in its present condition I
- > would bet it won't sell.
- >
- > Good luck.
- >
- > P.S. I'm sure there are other possibilities, anybody?
- >
- >
- > --
- >
- Intake manifold gasket: $50-$60 job at dealer.
-
- But not likely. The original poster mentioned that the car was "parked" and was
- being started weeky to "circulate the oil". Depending on how long he/she has
- been doing this without actually driving the car, it sounds to me that that
- might be the cause of (1) or (2) above. :-(
-
- Yin-chai
-
-