How much oil & coolant fits?

[Guest]

Hey guys, I'm about to service the DeForester and am just wondering how much oil and coolant fits in each respective system? I currently have 4l of 10w-40 Castrol and 4l of coolant (super long life stuff/concertrated). This enough?

Cheers

[BC5RA]

If your Forestor is a Turbo then you will need 4.5 liters of oil to fill.

Coolant system is about 7.2 liters, the coolant to water ratio would be 50/50.

I would use demineralized water as opposed to tap water, mainly because I'm anal.

[nztintin]

i chuck 5l of oil in my foz.....

[Guest boostin]

And have fun getting all the air bubbles out of the cooling system!!

[BC5RA]

 boostin said:

And have fun getting all the air bubbles out of the cooling system!!

Had terminal successive coolant hose failure recently, replace/bleed/fail/replace/bleed/fail/replace/bleed/fail

F#$KN headache.

[Guest]

 BC5RA']

[quote name='boostin said:

And have fun getting all the air bubbles out of the cooling system!!

/quote]

Had terminal successive coolant hose failure recently, replace/bleed/fail/replace/bleed/fail/replace/bleed/fail

F#$KN headache.

This due to the above air bubbles or just the hoses being full of suck?

[BC5RA]

An airlock could certainly cause failure in weakened hoses, but in my case it was just time they were replaced.

7 in total.

[Guest]

Sweet, well another day has gone by and I still havnt gotten round to servicing the car haha, but now at least I have my motorcycle license! I can finally stop spending so much money on buses and parking at uni!

[DRFVDR]

 BC5RA said:

An airlock could certainly cause failure in weakened hoses, but in my case it was just time they were replaced.

7 in total.

hehehe I so had this as well

I blew top radiator hose,replaced it then blew the hose to the heater core(replaced both as they sucky to get to)

then one of the ones under the intake manifold,

then bit bullet and did whole shibang

[RS.YES]

Is it that hard to service the radiator and coolant in all turbo subies? Damn was planning to do the same but after reading this think I might actually take it in, haha seems like a waste of time just doing 1 thing.

[dubbedup]

 RS.YES said:

Is it that hard to service the radiator and coolant in all turbo subies? Damn was planning to do the same but after reading this think I might actually take it in, haha seems like a waste of time just doing 1 thing.

No its very easy...just have to be patient with the bleeding process...or find a nice hill...

[Shale]

+1 on patience. Bastards burp for ages.

[G-unit]

any tips for a easy bleed for when i have 2 redo mine? should i fill her up with water/antifreeze and let runs with cap off?

[Drunkenmonkey]

i found fill radiator by the top hose saves alot of time and hassles and pump the bottom radiator hose gets most bubbles out

[driftrex]

 G-unit said:

any tips for a easy bleed for when i have 2 redo mine? should i fill her up with water/antifreeze and let runs with cap off?

yeah basically do what you said, preferably on a slight uphill i find helps, but i've never had trouble with bleeding subarus like some people seem to, just make sure you let it run for a long time to be sure all air is out.

[Scoobydoo]

Just a query about the hill thing, do you want the car facing uphill or downhill? I'm going to be doing mine next weekend. Plenty of hills where I live

[swiftbrad]

uphill.

 Scoobydoo said:

Just a query about the hill thing, do you want the car facing uphill or downhill? I'm going to be doing mine next weekend. Plenty of hills where I live

[Scoobydoo]

Cheers

[Scoobydoo]

 BC5RA said:

If your Forestor is a Turbo then you will need 4.5 liters of oil to fill.

Coolant system is about 7.2 liters, the coolant to water ratio would be 50/50.

I would use demineralized water as opposed to tap water, mainly because I'm anal.

Do you know what the capacities would be of my 2001 STi Spec C? I've just put in 3.5L of coolant concentrate with the idea that I'd top it up with the same amount of water so I get a roughly 50/50 mix. After putting in about 250ml of water it's pretty much full now and it's not going down very fast any more.

However I haven't started the car to start running it through, so I'm assuming it will go down a lot once it's running and the coolant starts flowing through the engine and radiator?

[Guest boostin]

From full dry they're about 7 litres. From a drain with pulling out the thermostat they take about 5.5L. How did you drain yours?

[Scoobydoo]

Didn't drain the block I guess then, just pulled the radiator out and all the hoses, but didn't touch the thermostat.

[driftrex]

 Scoobydoo said:

Didn't drain the block I guess then, just pulled the radiator out and all the hoses, but didn't touch the thermostat.

she'll be right, just start it and top up with water.

[Scoobydoo]

Yeah, just means I'll have an extra concentrated mix haha.. all good!

[driftrex]

 Scoobydoo said:

Yeah, just means I'll have an extra concentrated mix haha.. all good!

depends if you had a proper 50/50 mix to begin with. most cars i test at work have very very low levels of glycol/antifreeze even though they look fine in colour. better to have too much than not enough though ay. most places do very weak mixes to save themselves cash lol.

[Scoobydoo]

Well since I've had the car it was still green and the level hadn't gone down much at all, signs of a fairly healthy engine i'd say :-)