I am doing an engine reseal on my 1990 loyale. My timing belt has about 30,000 miles on it. It looks good--clean, fresh,flexible, no cracks,etc. i was planning to just throw the engine back in without changing it but then was reading in my manual that its highly recommended to change it any time tension has been released from it. Does anyone have an opinion as to weather this is really necessary? It's recommended to be changed every 60,000 miles and i don't plan to be driving the car much past that.

They will be OK, did you mark the rotation?

just retention the belt and it will be fine. the recommended life of the belt is 60,000 mi, but it can last longer. no big deal if the belt fails, as the engine is non-interference. The only pain in the neck about them is the covers, for which a lot of folk ditch them anyway, making a belt change a 20 minute breeze.

I know it's a very different engine, but when I did head gaskets on my EJ25D, I didn't replace any timing components as they had ~15k on them. 

 

Also I think the Loyale is mostly discussed in the older forum, not the new forum.