Swiss tone

I have the occasional strong smell of exhaust fumes getting into the car.

I assume the most obvious place is through the bulkhead behind the dash. Can anyone advise if there is a common gasket that leaks?

I have tried holding my hand on the exhaust to force the leak but difficult the hear the engine bay when i'm at the back!

Its got a full RCM 3" exhaust btw.

Anyone had a similar thing?

Cheers

The Pink Ninja

iTrader: (23)

Could be any gasket, it's not a Bugeye is it...could it be fuel?

Swiss tone

It's a blobeye mate. Think it will be in engine bay as can't see how fumes would get in from under car or through boot. Only occasionally but not good breathing that in eh.
Prob start at up-pipe area then. Sure it's exhaust smell and not fuel?
Cheers

horsham rc

iTrader: (1)

I had a strong exsust gas smell every now and then turns out it was ringland fail on my 2.5 sti.

Swiss tone

Can you remember which joint. I assume a ringland is a gasket? Might help checking common weak spots first.

JDM_Stig

iTrader: (3)

we had this a while back on here, one of the rubber grommets from the engine thru into the car had been pushed out when some additional wiring(may have been a boost gauge install) had been installed.

G10

Ringlands are the rings around the top of your pistons, search "subaru ringland failure".

My mate's car was leaking fumes in the cabin and it turned out to be the seal on an injector.

horsham rc

iTrader: (1)

Yes as said ringland is piston fail. The smell I got was exhaust gases not fuel or pure oil.

Swiss tone

Ah yes, isn't the ringland failure the issue with the 2.5 engine though? Mine the 2.0 blob eye and can't think it's that. It's done 34k and recently had a Heath check.

Rbon91

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