Tedder

Thanks for the info, I figured that might be the case. I live in Colorado, What is Rain-X???????????

Drive 60 miles roundtrip to work, all about the mileage. Just changing the way I drive increased from 24mpg to 30mpg. What is the implication of adding the fuse to change to 2wd. Improve mileage? destroy something? Nothing? 92 Leg s/w with ej2.2. Thanks, Tedder

Quick note to all of you excellent Ultimate Soob types. If any others outthere followed this tread. Indeed the timing mark was off, the arrow inscribed on the crank gear denotes piston direction (Why?). Looking on the gear to the side nearest the engine there is indeed a timing mark. I lined the two cams up to 12:00 and the timing crank gear to the mark on the block, set the belt, buttoned it up, turned the key and Varoom! Thanks again to all who contributed. Regards, Ted

You sent me this .pdf it is the definitive guide to timing marks. This will get me back on the road. Thanks for the help. For all of you other non-subaru mechanics if you don't do anything else on this board at least open this file. http://www.motor.com/MAGAZINE/Pdf/082001_08.pdf

A little more information. Daughter (yah, I know) drove the car said it just started to run rough. I confirmed and found the #1 cyl was not firing. There was spark, but I am unsure about fuel. I threw in a set of plugs, no change. So I lept to the assumsion of a timing belt , orginal 88K no history of this ever being done. Thought it couldn't hurt. So it was kind of running when I took it apart. I tried to be very careful about timing marks, making sure the piston was fully TDC by removing the sparkplug and using a pencil. After installing Timing belt, I manually turned the engine over several times to make sure everything moved. When I turned the key, the engine kind of caught ( I mean like when the timing is bad) then cranked smoothly, when I held the throtle to the floor it would kind of fire but no pops. Today, I will check spark, gas and do a compression check. My thoughts is that the computer shut down the #1 cyl. and I need to eval the check engine light. Any resource is welcome.

Got spark, when do you hear the injectors, key on or cranking. Will do the compression test tomorrow night. Thanks for the reply

John, Thanks for the reply, This is a 91 EJ22 and there is an arrow on the face of the crank gear (after the crank pulley removed) When I placed the crank pulley back on the timing mark on the pulley went to zero on the gage. I saw no other marks.

Help Sub missing #1 cyl. Thought it was timing belt, did the change. Tried to start it. It kind of sounded like it hung up then would not start. Did the timing belt again, check the marks multiple times. Back together tried to start, same thing a s before, no joy. Ideas ?

Subaru sent out a service note on the Timing Belt Tensioner noise. It has the sound of a crank bearing knock when first starting but goes away once the engine has warmed up. Subaru said to look for evidence of the Timing belt rubbing on the Timing Belt Cover. This is evidence enough to replace the tensioner as there maybe no other indications. I got this info off of Alldata. Hope this helps, Ted

The spedo always registers 42 mph when in motion. We have had it register correctly when on the Freeway, but around town 42. I have done some reading and think it may be the unit in the dash as the odometer is working correctly. This is a 2.5l with Automatic, AWD. Any Thoughts?