Well i was installing my cam gears yesterday when i accidently dropped the cam key to my exhaust cam I've used a magnetic pickup tool and everything to see if it was down next to the crank gear or next to the belt, but i nothing yet. Anyone ever been so clumsy like me, and found it, or should i just buy a new one.

 

Did you remove the timing belt covers and see if it's in there?

 

I'm gonna have to do that...I just hate to take off the crankshaft pulley and everything

 

Take the time to find it, it could be in an area where you don't want it to be (inside the engine )

 

if you are worried about adjusting the gears w/ out the tool, you can purchase something new to adjust them.

I purchased a socket w/ an allen end on it from Sears. It's either a 4mm or 5mm key...I didn't know which it was either so I bought them both...one of them works, I can't recall which.

I would definitely make sure that it's not in your engine...keep looking, that's an expensive mistake waiting to happen

 

What a friggin idiot dropping the key .................................................. ....................... So when I dropped mine about three years ago I had to remove the crank pulley, all of the covers .................. I couldn't find it anywhere in the tbelt area. Ends up it was sitting on the first plastic shelf just below the cam gear.

Good Luck, I feel for you
Mattj

 

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Good Luck, I feel for you
Mattj</TD></TR></TABLE>

lol, dam. That's brutal

 

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JJ...What did you do??!?!?!!?
Man if you need help gimme a holla.....I'll be free NE time this afternoon

 

yeah, it sucks trying to find it for hours last night...hahaha we should have just taken the covers and everything...oh well

ask milo if he has an extra key but we still have to find the lost one...doh

 

well when i get off work it'll be time to pull that timing belt and everything off...

 

call me up when you get off work and i can drop by and help out

 

thanks...that's what good friends are for!

 

if you dropped it to where you KNOW for a fact it's not somewhere in the engine itself, but in the engine bay, if you have an air compressor blow air around where you think it might be and hopefully you'll see something or hear something move.

have to be 100% sure it's not somewhere inside the head

 

I finally finished the install...i ended up taking off the timing belt and everything, and found the cam key laying on the lower cover. thanks for the help from my friends to get everything done...

 

Awesome I've always loved those cam gears. Good to hear you found it without losing anything else or breaking .. etc.

 

well it turned into quite the project but it's done bro! the EG's lookin good and runnin great... now gimme back those hours we spent lookin for that damn key!

 

hahahaha...I'll see if i can do that...hours will come back when the tach hits 9100rpm

 

You nerds.