# Need help with my moms Subie **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Automotive\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 7:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-with-my-moms-subie/247509 "2009-10-12T07:38:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 42
**Author:** ![Shady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Shady](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shady)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-with-my-moms-subie/247509/42 "2009-10-13T06:01:50Z")
> [@Pro Bowl- Brain Moorman you got "jacked up"](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/pro-bowl-brain-moorman-you-got-jacked-up/24380/9): > > ok man here’s what you gotta do… since the car shut off, i’m willing to bet that the belt DID skip time… Get out your book, and with the cover off, check to make sure ALL the timing marks line up where they should. (you may have to spin the engine a few times bro, **the cams don’t spin 1 to 1 with the crank!** ) If they don’t then when you crank it do hear any metal to metal banging or tapping when you crank it? if NOT, then I would get a new tensioner, belt, etc. and grab your book, get as many of the marks lined up as you can, and then remove belt. line up whichever one is off, and install new belt and tensioner, etc. 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/need-help-with-my-moms-subie/247509)._