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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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

 

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

 

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