slugo10

Crappy ending to a good day of working on my engine. So I decided to change the valve stem seals on my B18C today. Everything went great until i used a cheap center punch to hold the cams while i torqued the cam gears on. The punch broke and the cam turned and the broke part fell into the oil passage between #1 an #2 cylinder valves. So my question is does that go straight down to the oil pan? I hope it does so I can pull the oil pan and find it.

b16_sol_707

easiest way to tell it to take the oil pan off and look.

abusedhusband

iTrader: (1)

get a small telescoping magnet and stick it in the hole and hope you pick it up. if not take the oil pand and windage tray off and search.

gutted-dx

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I just had the samething hapen to me with 2 keepers, had to drop the header, oil pan, pickup, then windage tray. It was pretty gay but i found it! Good luck.

slugo10

So the oil passage does go striaght down to th eoil pan? It was about a 1 inch piece that broke off and fell down.

slugo10

Well i pulled the oil pan off and then the windage tray and there that little piece of S*%T! broken part lay. Glad i found it, now I will feel better not having to worry where it went. Thanks for the help again!

gutted-dx

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Suprising how it actually goes to the oil pan and not get stuck in the passage.

slugo10

Ya i guess it's a pretty big gap down from head to oil pain.

gutted-dx

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Gotta get all the oil off them cams back to the pickup.