Wrx Gates Timing Belt Kit Review

I changed mine preventatively when doing the timing belt idlers and tensioner all from this kit at 80 000 miles 12 years old wrx sti.

Wrx gates timing belt kit review.

Here you are looking at the gates racing timing belt kit. Gates timing belt component kits with water pumps give you and your customers a complete repair solution featuring the oe timing belts pulleys and tensioners from the standard gates timing component kits plus our. Gates manufactures their timing belts and components to meet or exceed the demands of oem build quality to provide the consumer with a solid product. I changed mine preventatively when doing the timing belt idlers and tensioner all from this kit at 80 000 miles 12 years old wrx sti.

Even comes with a little tube of loctite and a tool to set the belt guide gaps. After reading up on this gates has changed to a chinese water pump that is complete crap. Great kit with quality parts koyo ntn nsk etc. The really nice thing is that roger clark has a timing belt kit that comes with an hks timing belt which is actually made by gates and is equivalent to their racing belt and their top of the link kit comes with the sti kevlar reinforced timing belt.

Timing belt driven water pumps should always be replaced at the same time as the timing belt to reduce warranties customer comebacks and preserve long term system performance. I can confirm that this kit fits 2006 wrx sti adm. Their kits just require you to add a water pump separately. Subaru water pumps last well over 100 000 miles.

This kit includes all the main ingredients for a successful. Mostly we discuss the controversy and misinformation behind the gates timing kits the ntn tensioner the oem tensioner and japanese pulleys that come with the tck304n vs the kit that is tck304. This is completely horrible.