Gates Timing Belt Kit Subaru Review

Gates timing belt system kits are the total solution for over 33 million import applications including actual oe belts idlers tensioners and supporting hardware complete with detailed installation instructions.

Gates timing belt kit subaru review. 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. It seems a lot of their toyota belt kits are pretty much oem like items like all the seals and etc. Subaru water pumps last well over 100 000 miles. After reading up on this gates has changed to a chinese water pump that is complete crap.

No complaints about the kit fit perfect good directions. For a stock or daily driven car this is a great option. All oem equivalent parts including an aisin water pump. We also now stock the complete line of roger clark motorsport timing kits.

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. This kit is pretty much what the gates kits used to be. This is completely horrible. 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.

They have an oem timing kit that comes with a subaru timing belt and oem equivalent tensioner and. Overall this kit has performed well with no issues post installation. Pretty much overkill when i did a toyota v8. Belt tensioner and water pump.

This is the third gates timing belt waterpump kit i have used on my subarus. Ebay has some good timing belt kits and some bad ones. 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. I did a lancer non turbo and used gates everything.