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Location: Illinois
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Please Help!!!
Daughter was out in the garage with me last night and some how managed to drop a plastic wire connector in one of the cooling holes in the head...any ideas on how to get it out without removing the intake and head
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: woodstock, alabama, usa
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Re: Please Help!!!
first, are you sure it is a cooling passage?
if its an air intake passage the connector should stop at the valve pocket, unless it meets an open valve. first thing i would try would be to use a piece of coat hanger wire and make a ball of masking tape on it, sticky side out, and try to pull it out. the only other idea i can think of is compressed air but i am not sure that would be the way to go. good luck.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Mexico USA
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Re: Please Help!!!
I’m thinking a vacuum cleaner might work. It will need to be an open hole somewhere down line for this to work well ~ (air flow).
I went through this a few weeks ago with my 20 MO son….only it was needle bearings!!! I ended up pulling the heads back off to check. Ended up not being any thing in there, but better safe than sorry. s/t
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Re: Please Help!!!
First, can you see it? If you can, you'll have to come with some ingenuity.
Sticky substances on coat hangers as beautimus mentioned or some suction device. Maybe a small rubber hose attached to the suction side of a small vacuum cleaner. |
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Victoria,BC, Canada
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Re: Please Help!!!
I'm thinkin' compressed air...but also that maybe YOU dropped it.
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