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Subaru Forester 1999 burning oil smell

Tiny
FRANCO
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  • 1999 SUBARU
Car smell like oil is burning when engine is warm.

PS: head gasket was replaced recently. No more leak
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 AT 12:37 PM

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Tiny
BRENDONR
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'NO MORE LEAK' generally means there used to be a leak.

Is it possible there's oil left on your block that IS buring when the engine warms up?

Try taking the car to the car-wash and washing out your engine bay, making sure to get all over your block (while avoiding your electrical as much as possible).

There should be an 'engine bay' setting that's nice n' gentle, but has some kind of detergent in it. Then use the 'gentle rinse' mode to rinse out the detergent.

While running you'll steam and maybe smell like windex for awhile, but once that burns off, you should be set.
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Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 AT 11:23 AM
Tiny
MIKE H R
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Good idea of washing the engine off, did that one day but forgot the bottom of the engine. Still had spilage on engine after oil change. Don't forget to do the bottom to.
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007 AT 7:40 PM

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