Jack's Journey, another Poverty Pack

Jack is a one owner since new (me!) SG MY04 Forester X.
He's served us well over the years, mostly as a daily driver for SWMBO with a few camping trips towing a 7'x4' light off road camper trailer as well as board carrier and shuttle bus for the kids.
The last 18 months He's been reduced to Camper Trailer puller & Mal/Nipper (surf lifesaving) board carrier.
About 8 months back, SWMBO started raising discussions about trading Jack in on "Something Else" to the value of about $15 - 20ksecond hand, hiluxy sort of thing as she felt Jack was getting a little worn out.
This was to be used predominantly as a shuttlebus, camper trailer tower & board carrier mind you, but with a view to more adventurous touring..

With a little bit of effort, I managed to convince her that Jack was not in fact terribly worn out (backed up by the mechanic thankfully) but just needed a bit of a spruce up.

And thus the journey begins..

 

[Ben Up North]

Probably a small length of high pressure fuel / heater hose, wack a snug bolt in the end and clamp it.

Yep, that's what I'm currently doing.

Without further research it could be for the turbo version.

Is there another overflow pipe, Ben?

Looks like they're covering all bases, because it's got the normal water bottle hose connection/overflow as well..


Probably explains why it was cheap.

 

[Ben Up North]

Well that's my cooling problems fixed. Absolutely the best outcome I could have hoped for. Temperature didn't go over 97 and I was going up some pretty steep hills at a very reasonable speed.
I wish I'd done it 3 years ago

 

[Kevin]

That's great news!

 

[Ben Up North]

Well..that's what I thought. after a beautiful run yesterday, this morning it spaffed a heap of coolant out from...
..somewhere? while daughter was driving.

Perhaps I didn't have the cap on properly (checked it when I got home last night).
Or perhaps the cap leaks? It's Subaru oem.
Or I filled the coolant overflow bottle too much, the engine got warm, overflowed the overflow bottle, then sucked it all back in again when temperature dropped? Gauge didn't go over 96 while we were driving.
Have been for a few small runs since, doesn't seem to be doing it any more. Weird.

I'm hoping I didn't put the cap on properly!