Gates Timing Belt Kit Subaru Review

For a stock or daily driven car this is a great option.

Gates timing belt kit subaru review.

We also now stock the complete line of roger clark motorsport timing kits. Ebay has some good timing belt kits and some bad ones. I only have about 35k miles on the first one i installed so i can t speak to overall longevity but so far so good. Getting access to the timing belt on a subaru is no easy task it requires removing the accessory belts radiator crank bolt and pulley and finally the cover.

Subaru water pumps last well over 100 000 miles. Pretty much overkill when i did a toyota v8. Gates timing system kits offer great convenience and easy part sourcing and are designed to help you avoid warranties and customer comebacks when you replace all worn critical. All oem equivalent parts including an aisin water pump.

This is the third gates timing belt waterpump kit i have used on my subarus. This kit is pretty much what the gates kits used to be. After reading up on this gates has changed to a chinese water pump that is complete crap. Belt tensioner and water pump.

I picked up this kit for my 08 wrx. They have an oem timing kit that comes with a subaru timing belt and oem equivalent tensioner and. It seems a lot of their toyota belt kits are pretty much oem like items like all the seals and etc. This is completely horrible.

But i opted not to buy a water pump and mine seized 3 000 miles after putting the new belt on snapping the belt and dropping the valves into the head. No complaints about the kit fit perfect good directions. I promise the water pump is worth replacing even if it is not leaking. I changed mine preventatively when doing the timing belt idlers and tensioner all from this kit at 80 000 miles 12 years old wrx sti.