Metal Shavings behind timing cover?

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    After recently acquring a 01 RS sedan with a wicked noise that's coming from the top end i'm guessing, i removed the timing cover to find metal shavings generally all around the crank/timing belt area. Has anyone ever seen this before and come up with a conclusion as to where the failure occured and for what reason? Sorry if I havent given enough information, plan on digging a little deeper into in tonight. Thanks
     
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    A picture would help a ton. Without seeing anything I would guess one of the t-belt idler bearings is toast.
     
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    I would also think most likely from one of the idler bearings
     
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    i'll have some pictures posted tomorrow.
     
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    There is no way that car would run with that many teeth off, it sometimes takes MANY revolutions of the T-belt to ge the marks to line up perfectly, get a new idler, put it on, and re time it, you'll know right away, when it wont idle.
     
    AWDimprezaL, Sep 9, 2011
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