Maintenance item?  Subaru spec (for that vintage, anyway) is replacement
every 60,000 miles.  I never heard of anyone breaking one at lower mileage
than that...

david

At 07:13 PM 4/2/2001, Drew Bedford wrote:
>What about timing belt life? I used to have an '87 Subaru Loyale and it
>would bust timing belts about every 70,000 miles. I'm planning on doing the
>Vanaru swap, but this belt issue has been nagging me.

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"