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Had a beauty of a day in Ontario to start removing parts on my Legacy GT to replace the timing belt. I've got all the covers off, after cursing and swearing at the charge pipe that didn't want to disconnect. My problem is that I can't see a reference mark for the crank gear to align with. When I rotated the crank clockwise, it's found it's sweet spot and the marking is facing up, but both the left and right pulleys are off slightly. If I apply pressure on the crank bolt to make it rotate slightly more clockwise, then I can make the right and left pulley markings align, but after releasing pressure they slip back to being misaligned. Is this just a case of the belt stretching and it's still mostly timed? Do I need to take any precautions at this point? I haven't released the belt yet, it's still tensioned. Just trying to figure out what my next steps are when I pull the belt... do I just align the markings by rotating pulleys slightly clockwise, and put the new belt on? Photos @ https://photos.app.goo.gl/XYjhgbKkNHmvYG9PA

My trouble is I'm Canadian... so that's a no-go on Six Star as they don't ship to the great north. Rockauto's shipping is very reasonable though for that Aisin kit, it comes out to $283 USD with taxes and shipping included. If I go with the Six Star kit shipped to the border, I have to deal with customs/handling fee/border crossing/gas/etc, and I'm worried there would be additional duty levied because of the non-NA origin parts, though I'm not 100% if that's still a thing these days. The plus side to this though would be stacking the OEM water pump and any other parts I want to replace for cheaper than my dealer would sell... decisions, decisions.

Ah ok, fair enough. And I misread tensioner as timing belt so I was confused. CONTITECH TB328K1 is $145 with no tensioner or water pump Aisin TKF-004 $240 with a tensioner and wrong water pump $285 for the Six Star Bernie kit (OEM) with tensioner and no water pump I think I'm leaning towards the Aisin kit for completeness, and then just add on OEM parts as I go.

What's wrong with the Contitech timing belt? Is there just concern it's not as good as the Mitsuboshi? I'll also add coolant lines and rad hoses to the parts haul since I'm up in Canada and the roads are salty 50% of the year. I had a weird rattle around 2200/2400rpm that I think might be coming from the upper heat shield around the turbo, but I think enough has rusted away that it no longer rattles I'm not sure if I'll be pulling enough off anyways to be able to replace it.

Hello, I've been pouring over the forums for this data but it's a bit difficult as it seems to be smattered across a few threads. I'm trying to figure out what parts I need for my 2010 Legacy GT to replace the timing belt/water pump/etc. The 2010 seems to be a weird year where the water pump needs to be ordered from the stealership, as the Aisin TKF-004 kit contains the wrong one. Annoyingly, Aisin doesn't list a kit for the turbo on their website for my car, just the naturally-aspirated engine TKF-006 kit, and Rockauto doesn't show the TKF-004 under the 2010 LGT parts list either. So I'm thinking I should be buying the following: - TKF-004 kit - comes with a TB from Thailand, is this a concern? - Subaru water pump 21111AA380 - OEM Subaru Thermostat & gasket kit 21210AA160 I'm planning to do this job by pulling the radiator so if there's any other low hanging fruit to tackle, feel free to mention it. Are there any other kits worth looking at, such as from Dayco or Contitech ? If so, please post the part number for reference!

Wouldn't the clutch plate heat up, negating the benefit of red loctite?