You can pull the side covers off, however I dont know if it will help with what you are trying to do. Also, in the chiltons manual for the 2.2 it recomends changing the belt every 60,000 miles.

 

side covers are easy, and shouldnt take you more than a few minutes to remove each. 3 bolts on each, two on the bottom and one on top.

 

yes, the crank pulley sits in the middle cover, there are two more covers that sit on the left and the right sides, just in front of the cam shafts. you can tell which ones they are because they have circles on them that line up with the cam pulleys and where they meet with the middle cover it looks like brackets almost. I know this because I recently had to change the seals in the oil pump.... big pain in the butt it runs off the crank shaft and to get to it requires removing most of the pulleys and the timing belt underneath the cover. If you need to change the belt.... I highly recomend doing thorough reading on the subject in a haynes or chiltons manual..... if it is done wrong it can cause serious and very expensive problems, by the way, chiltons recommends 60,000 the subaru dealer that i got my parts from recomended at least at 100,000. hope this helps, best of luck.

 

60,000 and 100,000 for the belt i mean, I wasnt clear. I purchased my car at around 40,000 on it, I now have 80,000.... Im not quite sure if it was changed by the dealer I purchased it from, but when I had it apart, the belt looked great so I didnt bother to change it, I will prob. do it at 100,00 in another year or so.