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Originally Posted by steve25
I had just such a leak in my daily driver Subaru.
It was a head gasket and a very very small leak into a cylinder.
My coolant over the course of 5 days of a 74 mile round trip to work and back would go down by a little over 1/4 of a gallon, just enough to use up the reserve in my overflow tank.
It never steamed or smelled out the tail pipe either atleast at hot idle.
I got lucky and 3/4s of a tube of the Brass and Aluminum powder fixed it.
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Subaru head gasket failure every 100k miles seems to be the rule rather than the exception, which has been my experience with my Impreza. That said, I would never recommend using the mechanic-in-a-can sealants. They do a number on the coolant passages, radiator, and the heater core. And yes, I know Subaru dealers used it.
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