Engine advice please
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Engine advice please
In December I bought a MY99 turbo wagon, with FSSH, 38,000 miles etc.
I don`t thrash the car, always warming up/cooling down like a good boy, anyway, after a while it started sounding 'Klacky' when first started up.......sometimes!
My local Subaru guru listened to it, and reckoned it could be piston slap, but deffo thought it was not bottom end related.
The symptoms are, Klacks on cold start up, goes quiet after about 5-7 minutes, once wamed up is totally quiet......Now the strange bit, it only does this periodically, and can go weeks between episodes!
Reading that valve lifters can get 'sticky', at the last oil change a flush was performed....no difference.
I would be more concerned, but I have now done 6,000 miles in the car, and the problem has got no worse.
I don`t thrash the car, always warming up/cooling down like a good boy, anyway, after a while it started sounding 'Klacky' when first started up.......sometimes!
My local Subaru guru listened to it, and reckoned it could be piston slap, but deffo thought it was not bottom end related.
The symptoms are, Klacks on cold start up, goes quiet after about 5-7 minutes, once wamed up is totally quiet......Now the strange bit, it only does this periodically, and can go weeks between episodes!
Reading that valve lifters can get 'sticky', at the last oil change a flush was performed....no difference.
I would be more concerned, but I have now done 6,000 miles in the car, and the problem has got no worse.
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I don't think you will have helped the situation by flushing the engine.
It's a no no with the Impreza engine unfortunately
They run at such fine tolerences that the build up that forms over
the years keeps the engine tight, once flushed it loosens everything
up creating a noisier engine.
The big end bearings can take a beating after flushing !!
Sorry
Rob
It's a no no with the Impreza engine unfortunately
They run at such fine tolerences that the build up that forms over
the years keeps the engine tight, once flushed it loosens everything
up creating a noisier engine.
The big end bearings can take a beating after flushing !!
Sorry
Rob
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