EJ25, EJ20 2004 Subaru Forester Cam seal replacement Leaking Cam shaft seals 

Glad I could help!

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i guess it is pretty off topic but does anyone know of a good website to watch new movies online?

@Otis Kamden Try flixzone. You can find it by googling :)

@Otis Kamden lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it by googling =)

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Good idea! Get all of that done at one time.

You are very welcome!

👍 I understand your concern. Good thing modern o-rings are oil and heat resistant. Luckily I only had to heat up the bolt and not for very long.

Worked like a charm. The important thing is to get the seals seated evenly all the way around.

When you go to reinstall the belt use a cam gear holding tool or have a buddy help you while installing the belt. It is under tension when it is in the correct spot. The gears always wants to slip away from that spot.

A new o-ring should be pretty easy to find. Replace the cam gear if it got ruined

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Good luck 👍

You're welcome! Glad I can help!

Not sure if it's more common with Subarus, but most seals will eventually leak with time and milage.

After finishing the repair, I found an impact Allen socket on Amazon. Wish I had it while I was making the video.😁

@@atvsanonymous i need to grab some of them holding tools like you have im aviut to do my 08 wrx! Thanks for the video!

Pushed them in by hand?

Go here and see if you can match a tool to your engine. (You may have to remove the timing covers first to take a look. www.company23.com/subarutools?sort=p.model&order=ASC

@@atvsanonymous Thanks for the tool recommendation, I bought the ones I need. can you help me find the part number for the seals you have swapped. my car is a Subaru Legacy 2017 2.5l DOHC H4 16v. my engine has timing chains and not pulleys. I can't find the proper fitting part on the Subaru parts website.

Yes, They were leaking. The passenger side was the worst. Oil was dripping onto the exhaust causing smoke when the engine was hot.

@@atvsanonymous Got the same problem on my 2008 WRX. Was there oil on your timing belt? Were you able to reuse the timing belt?

No oil on the timing belt. But I replaced the belt since it had to come off anyway.

Yeah, Sorry. Sometimes hard to get a good angle of the work being done. If you get a screw driver behind One side of it, you can pry up on it and it pops right out.

What about the exhaust cam seals? Those are tight on the camshaft and wouldn’t want to scratch the surface

I hear ya. Many people have stripped the Allen bolts on these and I wanted to reduce the break-away torque to reduce the chance of stripping the Allen head.

@@atvsanonymous she's talking about the crank pulley or harmonic balancer as you called it, I dont think it has an Allen bolt? Or maybe i'm mistaken I thought it was the cam sprocket allen bolts that have a tendency to strip. Company23 tool looks really great for that. I think i'll have to do mine shortly...breaking open the timing cover tomorrow to check and then prolly be ordering that tool The trick Melissa mentioned is a good one for the crank pulley but obv only works in a stick shift

@@atvsanonymous thanks for the great video BTW, looks all pretty similar to my ej255 and was helpful to see a live normal-speed video of someone interacting with it rather than a fast forwarded clip or edited to remove mistakes and real stuff. Cheers

@@atvsanonymous Wait are you saying that using this method to break loose the crank pulley bolt could transfer some of the break away torque to the cam sprocket bolts?? 🤔🤔🤔 j/w now cuz I haven't heard that before

Thanks!