Right, I have a little problem...

 

Yesterday I removed the cracked plastic cam cover as it was really brittle and quite frankly...beyond fooked'. The problem is that as I was removing the left hand half (drivers side) a piece about the size of a 50p piece fell away and landed on top of the cam belt (see attached pic).

 

Typically the little fecker' despite my trying to talk him out of it, decided that he was going to jump off (honestly I didn't poke him with a long handled screw driver)!

 

Now it's down there behind that metal bit of cover hiding behind the crank pulley, knowing full well that I can't get to it.

 

I really don't want to be stripping the engine down any further than I have to and pulling everything off just to get to a piece of plastic, but at the same time I don't want to have the possibility of a ticking time bomb just waiting for its chance to bugger up/slice the cambelt

 

Any ideas how to get the fecker out or should I just leave it and see how it go's?

 

 

 

if u can see it .. some blue tac on a long stick .. other than that if u can not see it .. the lower cover will have to come off

Can you get an airline down there to blow it out?

if u can see it .. some blue tac on a long stick .. other than that if u can not see it .. the lower cover will have to come off

 

Is there an easy way to get the lower cover off?

 

or more to the point, what will I have to remove (pulleys etc) in order to get it off?

belts and lower pulley off m8 ...

I really wouldn't leave it may come back to haunt you, try loosening the bottom cover just to see if it can move enough to grab it, if not like mark said aux belts off bottom pulley off then you'll have access

I'll see if I can get a fibre optic camera down there to see if I can spot it and then try to get hold of it with something sticky on the end

Edited March 5, 201312 yr by jap.slapper

Doesnt take that long, and for the cost of a engine rebuild if it slices through the cambelt and bends your valves. id say its worth the extra time and effort. may as well change cambelt, water pump and pulleys while there, depending how long its been since they were done.

I agree with the above mate.....

 

....better safe than sorry!

 

Richard:sad:

I have a cunning plan......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it involves one of these:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one of these:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a bit of this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and a good helping of this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll let you know how I get on!

I have a cunning plan......

I'll let you know how I get on!

 

Good luck Baldrick...lol

give it a ninja jap slap stare through slanty eyes m8 lol.

give it a ninja jap slap stare through slanty eyes m8 lol.

 

I don't think my Jedi mind tricks are quite as refined as they used to be mate....

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a cunning plan......

 

And a small turnip