Wayne IIRC from what quite a few people have told me and in my own experiance timing a vehicle… It could take a lot of spins to just check to see if the timing marks line up…
IMO it owuld be faster to time the car from scatch in the first place
Idk how subarus are to time but id rather put it to TDC and retime it then dick with all that
Obviously id say retime it… turn it slowly by hand it see if you can feel anything binding up like it wont turn and it pushing up against a valve… you just gotta be easy as when you go on the compression stroke its not as easy to turn and you wanna be sure your not forceing it up against a valve
but as wayne said see if you can hear tapping etc…