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So I'm curious, the TOD on the hydraulic lifter engines is from sticky lifters always, short of bad oil PSI? What's the awesome cure? Marval mystery oil and frequent oil changes? Seafoam? Synthetic 5W-30? I've had a bunch of experience with Subaru's, but it was 12-15 yeas ago and honestly haven't touched one since.

THANK YOU Bucky92! That clinches it for me. I'm thinking the same thing. They parked it and on the last rotation it poped the left timing belt. (IIRC the left one is the one that always goes.) I'll check the distributer to see if the rotor is turning. Let me get this thing and you can tell me how to fix the inevitable lifter tick? Thanks much for the quick response.

Hi all, first post - awesome site! Hey, I am likely going to buy a 92 Loyale tomorow. It's in nice shape inside and out and only has 120k on the odometer and the price is right. Problem is it won't start. It was running great when they parked it and next morning nothing. It didn't throw a rod, overheat, Battery's hot, etc. It just won't start. My main question is - if it broke the timing belt do these bend valves? Is this an interference engine? I know, that's worse case scenereo, but anything short of that will be a peice of cake to find and fix.