thebruce50

Thank you very much for your help. My suby is running like a champ now.

so the mark on the front of the crank sprocket is that is a triangle is not the mark uesed to line up the timming. I did not see a mark on the back of the sprocket. is it on one of the six tines that triggers the crank sensor?

I have a problem with a 1993 legacy 2.2lt wagon. The #2 idaler on the timming belt came appart while driving and was rubbing against the pressure release valve on the oil pump. due to the situation i was forced to continue driving for about ten minutes. I replaced the idaler andput a knew timming belt on. I allighned the #1 cylander to TDC and lined up the mark on the crank sprocket put both cam sprockets to 12 oclock. The problem is that i can not get the car to start again. I am a little lost I checked the spark and compression on all cylanders and it is good. One strange thing is that the #1 cylander is sparking three times on a cingle rotation of the crank and i dont know if this is correct or not. The other problem is that none of the three times is right befor TDC on #1. To me this means it is out of time but i have redone the timming several times thinking i have made a mistake, but i think the timing is corect as far as the the crank timming. I am at a loss this subaru has 190,000 pluss miles but was running very well up untill this probblem. I would appriciate any help from some one who has experianced a simmilar problem.