something fell in my timing belt case

[pandagst]

hi, so i was changing my valve cover gasket and while i was remotving the timing belt cover a piece of plastic fell in, the on that sits in between the timing belt cover and te edge of the valve cover. i can reach and and barley see it, can it damage the belt or some thing? also any one know how tight im supose to bolt the cover on??

 

[colbyc]

If you can reach it....why not get it out?
and the cover, hand tight then a little more DO NOT OVER TIGHTEN, rather be under tight and be able to go back and tighten a little more than over tighten and break/strip/crack anything.
Hope this helps.

 

[gofer]

You need to remove the timing belt covers and get whatever plastic piece it is you dropped in there, if it gets wedged under the belt on a pulley its going to skip time or snap... Do you want a small piece of plastic to cause you $800 worth of damage to the engine?

I'm not sure exactly what cover your talking about, I'll take a guess...
Valve cover bolts - 2.5 ft. lbs.
Upper timing belt cover bolts - 2.2 ft. lbs.

 

[pandagst]

its small like a paper clip, any ideas on how dificult this is? what am i gonna need to take of to remove the whole cover?

 

[colbyc]

REMOVE IT EITHER WAY!!! And the full timing belt cover?

 

[pandagst]

You need to remove the timing belt covers and get whatever plastic piece it is you dropped in there, if it gets wedged under the belt on a pulley its going to skip time or snap... Do you want a small piece of plastic to cause you $800 worth of damage to the engine?

I'm not sure exactly what cover your talking about, I'll take a guess...
Valve cover bolts - 2.5 ft. lbs.
Upper timing belt cover bolts - 2.2 ft. lbs.

the cover that covers the timing belt over the cams

 

[colbyc]

Just 4 10mm if you're talking about the upper timing belt cover

 

[SrKegler]

If you can see it, just use some mechanical fingers or put duct tape on a coat hanger and reach in and pull it out.