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General Forums => Air Speed Lounge => Topic started by: Geoff on June 09, 2009, 06:57:22 PM
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Ok so as I stated in my other thread about the Oval hitting the road, Yesterday I heard the dreaded sound of something going "clank"...."tink"...!?!?! As I lifted off the Alt stand. As I looked down I saw only three washers on the four bolts!!! Oh Cr#p! Now...was there four washers on there? I'm sure there was but I couldn't see the fourth anywhere. I started to get a bad feeling and looked into the fuel pump hole....Nothing...Double cr#p! Nothing down the filler hole either..... Oh man..... Next I pulled the dist drive and had a look. Nothing! I used a long flexable LED light to look around but still nothing. Oh well... I guess it's time to pull the oil pump and see if it's there. A few minutes later im looking at the gear and i can't see it? Where could have it gone?
A few minets with the flash light and i see it BEHIND the cam gear! No prob my gears have holes in em, I'll just fish it out with a wire.....
Ummm nope that washer is just larger than the hole...Damn!!!
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I tried bending it to get it thru, cutting it and fishing some mech wire down but i couldn't pull it up past the gears.
So This is what I did.....with a lot of patience.
I used some electrical wire, stripped it down and used two of the strands about 14" long and soldered the two tips together. Next I fished it down past the gears and into the oil pump area, with some small allen wrenches and plires (like the game Operstion) I tied it around the washer and then solderd it together (just in case, I didnt want it falling back in somewhere i couldn't get it)
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and it's out!!!!
Big Sigh of relief!
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Moral of the story don't be a dumb ass like me and forget to remove all washers before lifting off the stand.
;) ;D
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damn!!! good fix mcgruber!!
i'm sure a vast majority of us have experienced the dreaded lost washer...it can turn the calm blue ocean into a raging brown s#!t storm in under a second!! 8)
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Good job McGyver!
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Nice recovery... ;D
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I might have done something like that :-\ Learned the hard way about plugging manifolds while redoing top end >:(Great save Geoff
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been there .
something i always do is when the engine is on the engine stand is rotate it around a few times and listen .
saved me this time as i found a cup from my schubeck lifter had fallen out and was in the bottom of my sump .
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dropped one of those 11mm brass intake nutz into an intake port one time and couldn't find my brass magnet ::) fun stuff
good eye on the missing washer, most would have missed it!!
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I dropped a 10mm nut into my motorcycle engine one time. Took me a couple minutes to figure out why it wouldn't roll over. Luckily only dinged the piston top and one valve (nut passed through intake track). Happy endings are always great also......