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I decided to go for a spirited drive with the 1 hour of daylight left out on the backroads having left work early. Accelerated down a long straight and shifted, spiritedly, and well, yeah. At least Pops only lives 45 mins away and I have a timing belt at home waiting to go in.

What is the crappiest place your broken timing belt left you?

While it's never broken on me.... it has skipped several teeth while driving -- obviously causing it to run like shit, dump gas out the back etc.

1) School parking lot turning, it died.

2) Just before getting the I-520 floating bridge in Seattle... pulled over after back on land, looked things over in the bus area... thankfully didn't turn it off. Once I got to the Schucks parking lot, it wouldn't fire back up again... and of course none of my tools around either to fix.

Non-interference motors can still smack valves. It depends on engine speed and its position when the belt breaks.

93forestpearl wrote:Non-interference motors can still smack valves. It depends on engine speed and its position when the belt breaks.

ssshhh you're going to jinx it...

the motor was on boil though

Well hey, you got lucky. Do a compression check when you get it back together.

I'll do that, and thank you, it had not crossed my mind.

Dave- did you ever replace the belt?

First subaru I ever owned the timing belt snapped only a couple days after buying it.

I was going down a backroad and there were a few cars going too slow (probably 50 actually lol) and I decided to pass them all. 1 truck pulling a horse trailer with 2 car in front of it. Got all the way up next to the last car I had to pass and all my dash lights came on and the car stopped accelerating. Then started to decelerate. My friend was in the passenger seat and told me I better speed up. I told him the pedal was to the floor!

Had to let them all pass me again so I could pull over. Embaressing. Got the car on a trailer and took it home and pulled the cover and found the belt all bunched up around the timing gears.

On the radiator support someone had written the milage the belt was last changed. It had about 120K miles on it.

Got a new one on there and new idlers and it ran like a champ for another couple weeks and then coming home up my steep hill the engine hit redline all of the sudden and the car rolled to a stop and went backwards down the hill. Tranny took a shit at 270K miles. Popped in a junkyard 4EAT in it from a 94 wagon with only 140K on it and it's ran flawlessly ever since. Been like 4 or 5 years now.

Here's hoping that it's all good.

I didn't get the chance to do a compression test, but the car seems like it's down on power ever so slightly so I will try asap. But it's still smooth and not at all noisy so I'm crossing my fingers.