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Switched the timing belt pulleys, crank and cam, and it started right up.... Old gas seems to not be an issue..... Thanks for the help everyone, very much appreciated.

Thanks for the help. I'm going to go check out the cam sprockets this morning. Let you all know how it comes out.

Hi everyone, new to the forum.... have had many Subaru's. Quick background, bought 2.5 from Craigslist to replace blown 2.5 in my 00 OBW. Was told the engine came out of 00 Forester. Swapped intake and engine wiring harness. The engine cranks but doesn't start. The car sat for about a year before I started working on it again with about a half of tank of gas in it the entire time. Unfortunately I didn't add anything to it to prevent it from going bad... so it has a half tank of bad gas in it right now. It has spark and there is fuel in the injector rails. So my questions are: 1) Do you think the bad/old gas is enough to make it not start? I have cranked the engine over for a long time and pulled the spark plugs and they are dry, well one did look a little wet, but after cranking the engine as long as I have it should be flooded so I'm wondering if the injectors are plugged? Is there a way to check them? 2) I have read a couple other posts about the cam sprockets, I know the right sprocket was different (its black and looks to be plastic) but that sprocket has no pickup sensor coming off it. The left sprocket looks the same but I'm not positive. Could that be a problem? Any thoughts on how to get the old gas out of the tank, tried siphon but can't seem to get tube far enough into the tank. Any help is appreciated.