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broke timing belt on 99 Forester HELP !!


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Not likely, unless he was running at 6000 rpm's when the belt broke!!

 

I agree with Ken, about the only way you are going to bend valves on an EJ25 is if you break a belt at high RPM and the valves happen to stick wide open. The four cam engines are a different story, as the valves can and will contact each other if the belt breaks. The last four cam I saw with bent valves was one that had an aftermarket water pump come apart.

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Pretty sure you are the one that needed/wanted to see this, but if not hopefully the right person sees it. The below picture is of a crank sprocket. The screwdriver on the right is pointing to the timing mark that needs to be lined up with the center line on the timing belt, the black pointy thing at the bottom of the picture is pointing to a triangular mark that is on the face of the pulley, which is easily mistaken for a timing mark, but as you can see it is NOT the mark you need to line up with the belt! (I'm not sure what it is for , and my master tech didn't know either, our theory is it's there to confuse non Subaru technicians :grin:)

 

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Do not use the triangle for timing belt changes. Use the line on the reluctor* tooth . Using that line, all of the pistons are at the halfway point in their cylinders, none are at TDC.

 

*reluctor is those extra teeth that stick out on the back of the sprocket. The teeth are sensed by the crank position sensor (it's a Hall effect sensor) so the ECU knows where the crankshaft is.

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I got heads. Not that cheap but known good. I'd need to tear an engine down to get them. Unless you want 97/98 DOHC heads w/bent valves due to an idler failure - I have them on the shelf. I think they are 97 (from memory) because they have the shims to adjsut the valves).

 

PM me if interested.

 

I have a set of 2.5 DOHC form an engine with bearing issues.

 

And a set of 2.5 SOHC heads(Forester) from an engine with bearing issues.

 

Both engines are complete at the present time.

 

Both have around 150k on them.

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