Went to start it as someone wanted to inspect, and the bastard wouldn't fire!
It was turning over but only just, at first I suspected battery so put a new one in, that didn't help. Then I just tried jumping it with the new battery but no joy. Suspected starter to banged that a bit whilst cranking no joy. No idea how the starter could die just from sitting anyway?
So then I pulled out the spark plug rubber connectors and a lot of oil was in there!
Car is low kilometres and good compression, just being sitting for awhile.
Any ideas what the hell this is? My next port of call was to remove all plugs and turn it over to see if the starters stuffed?
Thoughts from a helpful forum member so far are:
The battery isn't an issue because I've changed it and tried running it off another running car. Does a leaking rocker gasket really make the car unstartable?On the older EJ25s the oil accumulates because of the angle of the spakplug hole it seeps out of the rocker gasket over time and runs down into the plug hole.
the rocker gaskets are 2 parts on the newer outbacks one big gasket for the outer seal and a small one for the seal around the sparkplug when these leak they fill the spark plug hole
either way it looks to be a leaking rocker gasket
as for the hard to turn over part how long has it been since the battery was at full charge?
How much of a pain is this to fix and any other theories?
It's annoying as I need to sell it lol.
Cheers,
Jesse.