# Can running a civic without drive belts over heat the engine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** honda\ **Created:** [January 6, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-running-a-civic-without-drive-belts-over-heat-the-engine/173920 "2021-01-06T00:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jameson.luttrell\_154832](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@jameson.luttrell\_154832](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jameson.luttrell_154832)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-running-a-civic-without-drive-belts-over-heat-the-engine/173920/1 "2021-01-06T00:44:05Z")
The water pump is driven by the timing chai so I would think not. Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![jameson.luttrell\_154832](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@jameson.luttrell\_154832](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jameson.luttrell_154832)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-running-a-civic-without-drive-belts-over-heat-the-engine/173920/2 "2021-01-06T00:44:39Z")
timing chain\* ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/can-running-a-civic-without-drive-belts-over-heat-the-engine/173920/3 "2021-01-06T05:56:47Z")
Well your alternator is driven by the serpentine belt and you a/c, fuel pump and most radiator fans are electric. I don’t know if you would get far enough for the car to overheat because of the lack of electricity to the cooling fans. I might be able to give you a better answer if you had told us what prompted the question and what make,year, and model are.