Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
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Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
I was doing a valve adjustment and dropped a screw inbetween my valves... oops... Where can it go? Can it be flushed out maybe?
I have pictures of where what happened, but I don't know how to upload them...
Please help!
I have pictures of where what happened, but I don't know how to upload them...
Please help!
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
well if the valve is closed get a little magnet and you should be able to fish it out if it was open pull the spark plug and do the same DO NOT TURN THE ENGINE OVER
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
Magnet on a stick. VERY useful.
If it went into the cylinder I've also heard of using a vacuum pump and small tubing to capture the item and remove it.
If it went into the cylinder I've also heard of using a vacuum pump and small tubing to capture the item and remove it.
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
Magnets and vacuums! I like it. Thanks guys
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
if you have easy access to vacuum pump and hose I'd suggest doing that first.
While magnet-on-a-stick doesn't usually come apart, Murphy's law says that it would happen during this rescue. And there would be no way to get the magnet back out of the cylinder if it came loose other than removing the cylinder head.
While magnet-on-a-stick doesn't usually come apart, Murphy's law says that it would happen during this rescue. And there would be no way to get the magnet back out of the cylinder if it came loose other than removing the cylinder head.
Ron
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
Thinking about this a little more - you were probably adjusting valves so unless the screw went down the spark plug hole the screw went somewhere on the cylinder head or down an oil return hole or down the cam chain opening. Vacuum probably wouldn't help except for down the plug hole because vacuum will just suck oil from many places.
I hope there wasn't a washer on the head of the screw????
I hope there wasn't a washer on the head of the screw????
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
I got it! I used a flashlight and one of those extender claw tools and fished it out. Thanks for the suggestions. I bought one of those magnet pickup tools as well
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Re: Help! Dropped a screw into my engine!
Yay! Happy ending!
Ron
Current: 1988 BMW R100GS (the 'numberplate' model)
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