yzf250

Could someone please tell me how hard it is to change a rocker gasket on a impreza wrx (2001 bugeye), ive had 2 garages say they wont work on a subaru, subaru main dealer trying to charge me £185 +vat (labour only) Then i finally find a garage to do it for £70 bought my parts grand total £58( subaru main dealer) and today there,ve cancelled for the 3rd time. Cant find any links on you tube. is it hard to do or can it be done quite easily.....
Any feedback would be great......

nessscoob

Did mine this weekend mate, very easy to do on my classic. If your doing both sides, on o/s remove air intake, remove plug leads, pull breather pipe off top of rocker cover. Then simply untighten the retaining bolts(mine had 6, yours may have 8), whip of the cover. Take old gasket out, put new one in the cover.

Put a wee bit of sealer round the half moons as they are a weak point.(3 bond recommended)

Refitting is a reversal of removal.

N/s is the same but you have to remove the battery and washer bottle to get access.

jayallen

iTrader: (31)

.........and there is me expecting to see a pimped rocker cover gasket in the gallery...

yzf250

lol if i do it myself ill pimp it just for ya

Ian

iTrader: (10)

lol me to. my money was on a cosworth one

scooby-wrx

They're really straight forward mate. First mechanical thing I ever did on my car and they're still going strong 3 years later. Bear in mind this is on a CLASSIC.

Remove all surrounding parts, windscreen washer bottle, battery etc... doesn't have to be removed, but makes it easier.




Remove the cover to expose the cams:






Replace these seals (including bolt seals):

yzf250

Thanks ppl, going to tackle it this weekend, will let you know how i get on ,,, fingers crossed lol

95turbowagon

iTrader: (17)

Need to the offside on mine at some point and do the plugs at the same time, mines leaking a little onto the exhaust and is a bit smokey if i haven't used it for a little while.

yzf250

Thats how i found mine, never used car for a month got it out garage and was smoking like hell, took ages to find and it was only weeping in the corner but garage said it was enough to make it smoke, so fingers crossed once i do it the wkend all will be ok

Then ill be starting a new thread about brake and discs upgrade lol

95turbowagon

iTrader: (17)

Then the next upgrade and so on.

yzf250

hi all done gasket today, was pretty straight forward thanks to advice and pics, took me and the old man about 2 hrs all in all but that was taking my time in the pissing down rain lol thanks for advice and pics and lets hope i dont find any leaks in the next couple of days

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

just about to do mine,have a leak of oil dripping onto the up-pipe,(not much,enough to smell it sometimes) so assume corner of the rocker gasket.

to the people who have done it,did you use any sealant gunk or just the seals on their own ?

cheers

yzf250

sealed the main gasket