Subaru Gates Timing Belt Kit Review

I picked up this kit for my 08 wrx.

Subaru gates timing belt kit review.

0 of 0 people found the following answer helpful. 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. Also found the timing belt through an ebay subaru dealership for 65. No complaints about the kit fit perfect good directions.

I went on ebay and found a user selling a kit of all 4 idlers tensioner for 145. Subaru water pumps last well over 100 000 miles. 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. This is the third gates timing belt waterpump kit i have used on my subarus.

All and all i am out 200. 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. They have an oem timing kit that comes with a subaru timing belt and oem equivalent tensioner and. After reading up on this gates has changed to a chinese water pump that is complete crap.

Really any timing belt kit for the usdm sti will work perfectly on your jdm sti so this kit would work just fine. This kit is pretty much what the gates kits used to be. Monkey wrenching 2 375 views. This is completely horrible.

Overall this kit has performed well with no issues post installation. We also now stock the complete line of roger clark motorsport timing kits. I promise the water pump is worth replacing even if it is not leaking. Subaru timing belt kit by gates the whole truth duration.

Timing belt kit rsamani 6 months ago looking for a timming belt kit that would fit my jdm 2008 impreza sti. All oem equivalent parts including an aisin water pump. 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. I called their store cbhaus and talked with the parts guy he confirmed that all of the parts included are genuine ntn koyo nsk parts.