Free tip friday, here for you folks, uh 2011 subaru came in with a complaint of an oil leak and it's not the head gaskets. If you can imagine that, however, the oil pump used to sit right here and now it sits right here on the bench, and you can see that the seal is pushing itself out now. The crank gear has taken the liberty to chew it up. You can see where it's been grinding on there make sure if you run across one of these and you see the seals pushed out, you don't just put a seal on it, but you take the pump out because you'll start to find that the bolts here on The back of the pump are all loose and that's what happened to this one - and this is just as we took it out.
The bolts come loose and allow pressure to bypass the rotor and push the seal out, pushing the seal into the crank pulley. The crank pulley chowders it up and then it puts the oil on the exhaust. And then you end up in the shop, and here you are so.
Eric – Your hatred of Subaru too often comes through in your snide comments. Your vids would be better without snide comments about these fine cars.
As a former tech that built Subaru timing covers and oil pumps it's done on purpose to creat more business because people are already used to the engines having these problems so why not creat the problem on purpose. Far enough past my contract to where I can talk about it now. You ever see the cover with sort of an eagle type stamp on it I likely made it. For the mid to late 2000's
I've worked for subaru for 5 years. I've not seen this yet. I've heard of it a few times, just haven't seen it…. yet.. lol. "Leaking head gaskets, it's what makes a subaru a subaru" 🤣
From all of my experience. Don’t buy a 2011 subie. Some people got good luck but unfortunately that wasn’t me. I can 100% do an engine swap on one in about 4 hours though thanks to that
True coment, not ment annoy subie owners out there.
BUT, how in hell do these engines get there so called high reputations from. To my mind there are far superior engines out there that doesn't have the agony that these engines endure. Not just Toyota either.
Self loosening oil pump bolts, it's what makes a Subaru, a Subaru. And the rust. And the smell of burning oil. And the P0420. And….
Would definitely put thred locker in those screws for reassembly, especially after being wallowed out by years of vibration working the looser and looser. Another shitty design.
Tome to go electric with any Tesla's far better engineering and desgn.
Once again people are ragging on the Subaru Boxer engine, because it fails long after it was supposed to last. It is like complaining that the box of a dozen eggs only had 18 eggs. This car is 10 years old, and Subaru only promises you 7 years. So its age is at 145% of what Subaru promised.
I remember the first time I saw this I was like WOW SO TERRIBLE. After a few dozen times you just check the pump rotors for excessive wear and slap that puppy back together. It’s a fairly regular occurrence. What’s even more fun on the newer FB/FA motor, are the oil return galleys from the rear main seal being plugged with sealant from the factory and pushing the rear main out. Just a bit messy.
Almost every oil pump I’ve taken of an EJ has done that. I usually tighten them back up and take a pinch and punch the screw into the housing so it doesn’t back off again.