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Been there 200 1993

posted by  akwagon on  Mon Apr 30 09:47 CST 2018
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I came out of Costco here in 2001 to find a fire truck pumping water into my 1980 (325k) 245 engine bay through the headlight. Pretty much all the wiring was melted, though from firewall back it was ok. Insurance totalled it and I took $ to replace it with 89 245 which I had till 2015 (360k miles), replaced with 2000 Honda crv . Think the fire started with failed rewire to alternator. 2 other friends had couple late 70s early 245's go up in flames. Those were carb/ fuel related.
Think that 80 would have gone on forever with just a new clutch. Sigh.

GC

PS there ARE a lot of subarus here in AK.just make sure if you get a used late 90s early 2000, the head gasket has been replaced. They WILL go at 85k-100k.






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