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I have a 96 Legacy with an ej22 engine that I purchased from a friend, he has has owned and driven the car for a while. He sold it to me because the tranny failed and so I removed the engine and tranny together to do the swap. While the engine was out and since it had 240,000 miles on it I replaced the water pump and removed the oil pump. The oil pump had some screws on the back of it that needed tightening again, I've experienced this with other 2.2's so have learned to remove and seal these oil pumps as a result of other cars throwing a rod. I put it back together with the old timing belt and equipment since they were only 40,000 old. Immediately upon restart the car skipped timing on the left cam. I reset the timing again and it ran fine for about 500 miles and then skipped timing on the right cam. I put a known good used timing belt and tensioner on the car and she ran great for about another 1000 miles. This morning when I went out to my car it started fine and when I let the clutch go (possibly a little to fast, she stalled) the car jumped and then quit. Another timing failure. All three times I did the reset I compressed the hydraulic tensioner slowly with a C-clamp and double confirmed everything when set. I am going to replace with a brand new kit this time however in the dozen or more 2.2L Subaru engines I've worked on this random timing skip is completely new to me. Hell I've put worn out belts and other tensioner parts on these engines before and had them run for ever. I've even seen a 94 ej22 driven for thousands of miles without a tensioner, couldn't believe it when I saw it myself. This constant skip has never happened with the engine by the previous owner so seems to be quite unique. Has anyone else ever experienced a consistent timing skip before?