I thought I would write back and thank all of you who put in your 2 cents in to help us out, we found out that the TDC mark means nothing really when replacing the timing belt. it is the mark on the ignitor plate that is the correct one not the one on the pulley (TDC) after talking to a subaru tech at the local dealership he confirmed that the marks on the ignitor plate have really nothing to do with TDC but more to the relief from cam tension so you can install the belt so I did all of this and the engin ran and ran well but I think the tensioner is weak because the drivers side cams skipped out of time during start up and leak check and the passenger side still lines up when aligning the mark up whith the crank do any of tyou have opinions ?

You should roll the engine over by hand when you have the timing belt & tensioner put back on. That will help take up slack in the timing belt and help prevent the t-belt from skipping a tooth at startup.

As I recall, you compressed the tensioner pretty quickly. I think they can be damaged that way. maybe a new tensioner is in order just to be safe?

 

Carl