GreenDarter
Kevin8756
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Subaru???
I have a 08 Forester and it’s overheating and losing water. My mechanic wants $3200 to replace the head gasket. I’m in college and really can’t afford the repair… My boyfriend wants
to use a head gasket sealer called blue devil to try to fix the head gasket. Has anyone tried it before or knows the best sealer to use in this car? Any help would be really appreciated…
2008
First thing, don’t even think about trying Blue Devil!!!! I tried it in my BMW x5 2004 and it completely clogged my heater core. They say it works on any car but what they don’t tell you
is silicate based also called water glass sealers (which blue devil is) don’t work on aluminum! Both my BMW and your Forester have all aluminum engines so definitely don’t use Blue
Devil. Not only will it not work on aluminum engines it actually pulls metal off when it starts to crack away (which it does almost as soon as it cures).
The only head gasket sealer out there that is actually made to work with aluminum is Titan Head Gasket Sealer… It’s made of a polymer instead of water glass so it can stick to the
aluminum and flex with it. Hi tech stuff considering after I checked around all the other sealers including Bars, Steel Seal, Thermagasket (which is the worst of the worst), and of course
Blue Devil all still use silicate water glass in their sealers. Anyway, I the Titan sealer it in my BMW and got the head gasket fixed in about 4 hours of running the engine with the Titan
sealer in it. That was about 3 years ago and it’s still holding.
What really makes me laugh is seeing how much Blue Devil promotes their sealer on the internet and its garbage!!!
I just used this Titan Sealer a few weeks ago in my 2004 Forester for a blown head gasket. I used it and the smoke went away in about about an hour. No loss of coolant
anymore and my engine is running a lot better with no overheating. I'm very happy with the results. I’m also very pleased with their tech department guys, I’m no mechanic,
but they helped me over the phone about a million times that day but in the end my car is up and running again.
I’ve been a certified mechanic about 32 years now and I’m not a big fan of any additive but your right… If you are going to use a head gasket sealer the best one is the titan sealer.
Based on it’s formulation I recommended titan to a few people because their car or truck really wasn’t worth putting a lot of money into and it worked fine.
One of them had a 96 pontiac sunfire 4 cylinder (not the best car in the first place BUT) it was her only car and was blowing water out of the tailpipe. I actually got the water to stop
pouring out of the pipe with the titan stuff… So if your needing to get your forester fixed on a budget I say go for it.
Thanks Kevin the Titan Head Gasket Sealer on the web and gave them a call. I’ll be receiving it in a few days… I’ll let you know how it goes.