Subaru Repair Seattle: Timing Belt Idlers Explained

This comes up a lot both for our Local customers, and we get a lot of questions about this from afar.

The old saying a picture is worth a thousand words, I think a video with a little sound is worth many more.  I did make a mistake about the green aftermarket idlers we see in many of the online kits having double bearings, that is actually not correct, they are just a single bearing idler, which is really not the best choice you can make .  It only costs a few dollars additional to get the updated component.

Thanks for reading and watching

Justin