Parts authority has the aisin timing belt kit. They're a well known parts outfit and the parts are legitimate.
It's OEM, and the kit I got includes the belt, water pump, idler pulleys and the hydraulic tensioner. That's the only kit other than the OEM from Toyota stuff I'd use.
I just ordered an Aisin kit from rock auto since aisin makes the oem kits for toyotas. To my pleasant surprise it had a hand full of oem toyota parts in the box but the pump was aisin branded and the timing belt was mistuboshi.
I wouldn’t see an issue with going with the aisin kit I did but being that it’s such an invasive job it’s one of those things that you really only want to do once and be done with it because of the amount of work to get to the water pump and belt.
Yes. Those are the only brand kits I use for the most part (unless a customer wants factory).
Get the Aisin one off rockauto, I just replaced mine with it.
You can save yourself some time and money by buying the Aisin water pump / timing belt kit on RockAuto. Don’t mess around with other ones. The parts are all the same OEM you’d get from Subaru at a fraction of the cost, except for the pump itself — but that’s a good thing because while Aisin didn’t make the pump for these, they were an OE pump maker for Subaru and the company that made the OE one for that generation (Gates) has apparently started producing crap. I don’t think Subaru even uses them anymore for their OEM pump.
For Toyota, the Aisin timing belt kits are good. I've had one one on my Tacoma for a long time. Regardless, it is a quality product.
Make sure whatever you do, it's a genuine Aisin timing belt kit.
You should use Aisin or OEM water pumps.
I used the Aisin kit. There was a thread on CL about how "the Aisin belt isn't the same standard, look the text on the original is still there but the new one rubbed off fast". Idk, I'd call BS on that, all the text on my belt was gone and it was serviced at a dealer.
Like others have suggested, either get an OEM or Aisin water pump or be prepared to make this an annual event.
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