How necessary is timing belt cover?

[Tony Hoffman]

As metnioned, not at all a good idea to remove only the top cover. However,
if you want to run sans covers, remove them all. That way, if something
gets kicked up, it will simply bounce off and you can continue down the
road. Otherwise, with teh bottom cover on, something can vall in and get
trapped, thereby causing a good chance of premature belt failure.

I've run for years without covers on several cars. But, when I remove one,
I remove them all.

Tony

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Christopher Gharibo <cgharibo at usa.net>wrote:

> I figured it would make inspection easier.
>
> But, I got my lesson.
>
> Thank you.