So like the title says a small rubber nipple fell in thru the trottle body. Wat happens if I run the car ?

 

worst case, it keeps a valve from closing fully and it smacks a piston and you rebuild the engine, best case, it makes it past the intake and exhaust valves and into the cat, melts and possibly damages your cat. take off the intake manifold, you only have to replace a 5dollar gasket to do it.

 

get out your bendable claw(everyone has them) Maybe you will get lucky, otherwise.....pull the intake off.

 

Don't risk leaving it in there, better safe then VERY sorry, take the tb off and see if you can reach it with long needle nose pliers. If not, take the mani off and get it out.

 

Alright then I will be removing the manifold and get that thing out. Appreciate the input tanx

 

Well before you do all that try through the throttle body first, it's much easier, but if that doesn't work, then take off the whole mani.

 

How small was this "small rubber nipple"? Baby-bottle size? Tic-Tac size?

Have you wedged the throttle open with a piece of dowel at the pedal and peeked inside the manifold with a mirror?

I wouldn't start the car yet. There's a possibility the nipple may end up holding one of the valves open, which would cause it to collide with the piston. And that's very bad indeed.

 

Sell the car.... Nah j/k.


Taking the manifold off is a pain in the ***. I'd remove the throttle body like everyone else said and just try to reach for it. You could also set the pistons so the intake valves are open (exhaust closed) and push compressed air into it. That might shoot her out

 

Open the throttle plate and look in there. It is probably laying there. A stick with tape on it could retrieve it.

 

Took off the tb and retrieved it. Used a mirror to see. And it was small like a fingernail size.

 

At least you didn't have to take the whole manifold off good job bra