Wrx Gates Timing Belt Kit Review

Only gripe is that the smaller 20mm diameter idler is a no name brand one from taiwan while the rest are known brands made in japan.

Wrx gates timing belt kit review.

Great kit with quality parts koyo ntn nsk etc. Here you are looking at the gates racing timing belt kit. 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. This is completely horrible.

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. Subaru water pumps last well over 100 000 miles. Their kits just require you to add a water pump separately. Even comes with a little tube of loctite and a tool to set the belt guide gaps.

I can confirm that this kit fits 2006 wrx sti adm. 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. 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. 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.

After reading up on this gates has changed to a chinese water pump that is complete crap. 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. 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.