Ginger48

Sounds like a vacuum leak to me. I've seen it many times....lean condition. Check your carb adapter, and gaskets and make sure all your vacuum ports that had hoses removed from are securly plugged.

Professional ASE certified mechanics DON'T agree with you!

An interesting read on oil http://www.ganoa.org/Motor_oil2.htm

Subaru is in the business of selling cars....NOT making them last!

Try Mouser Electronics.....http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=home

You have to remember most of the posters here have the maturity of 2 year olds. You have to take their insults (and wisdom) with a grain of salt.

PCI is made in China. Chinese bearings are absolutely the worst bearings on the market. If the belts are the same quality as their bearings, that would be my last choice. Gates invented timing belts back in the 1960's for the OHC Pontiac 6 cylinder engine. If anybody knows how to make long life timing belts, they should since they've been making them for over 40 years....AND they're AMERICAN MADE not made with slave labor in Communist (Red) China. Gates is all I will ever use.

Since Subaru doesn't recommend retentioning belts, I've never done it. I've always used the best belts available, lubed the idler bearings or replaced the idlers with high quality replacements, serviced at 60,000 mile intervals, and never had a problem in over 275,000 miles.

If you install cheap Chinese belts and idlers, it’s absolutely necessary to leave the covers off. If you install quality parts and replace all the seals, you can leave the covers on.

If the Chinese made timing belts are of similar quality as Chinese bearings, I understand why some belts don't last. INFERIOR CHEEP JUNK! You get what you pay for.

I’ve been lurking in the background for a long time and I finally decided join so I could respond to this thread since there doesn’t seem to be any guys here that knows or remembers their history. 40 mpg is not unrealistic fuel milage. If fact it is actually low considering “Mobil Economy Run” teams were getting close to 30 mpg with full size american cars back in the 1950's and 1960's. This is a well documented and established fact! Since they could get that kind of milage way back then with 4000+ pound automobiles, why shouldn’t a lighter weight automobile with much less frontal area, with radial tires with lower rolling resistance, and with modern ignition and fuel systems get proportionally greater gains? I Googled “Mobile Economy Run” but found little information. If anyone is really interested, I guess you’ll have to go to your public library and look for old Motor Trend magazines. They had many articles on this subject.