08-14-2019, 08:56 AM
If I weren't at work fuming, I'd be sipping some brown party likker right now and ruminating over my current situation.
I'm doing a valve adjustment on my Bonneville, and after extracting my exhaust camshaft to pull the buckets and shims, I took my rag that was covering all of the holes in the head to spread out over the engine as a dust cover.
In the process, I didn't notice that one of the locating dowels for a cam cap had fallen into the towel (they're little buggers), and as I moved the towel, I watched in slow motion as the dowel fell down the breather pipe and into the block.
I've gone at it with a telescoping magnet stick, a flexible claw grabber, and last night made a flexible tool with a magnet stuck on the end of some 1/4" vinyl fuel hose.
I know it's just a matter of time. And alcohol. I've got time to kill, as I have shims and seals on order, and I plan to go at it daily as I have time, until I hear the magic click of metal attaching to magnet.
Any positive energy would be appreciated.
I'm doing a valve adjustment on my Bonneville, and after extracting my exhaust camshaft to pull the buckets and shims, I took my rag that was covering all of the holes in the head to spread out over the engine as a dust cover.
In the process, I didn't notice that one of the locating dowels for a cam cap had fallen into the towel (they're little buggers), and as I moved the towel, I watched in slow motion as the dowel fell down the breather pipe and into the block.
I've gone at it with a telescoping magnet stick, a flexible claw grabber, and last night made a flexible tool with a magnet stuck on the end of some 1/4" vinyl fuel hose.
I know it's just a matter of time. And alcohol. I've got time to kill, as I have shims and seals on order, and I plan to go at it daily as I have time, until I hear the magic click of metal attaching to magnet.
Any positive energy would be appreciated.