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Eldavo

Eldavo

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Ok, so I need to replace the cambox gasket to fix a leak so I've removed the fuel rail and also the intake manifold to clean it up and spray it. Followed the clarks garage guide for removing the cambox and first thing was to set the engine to TDC.

As I was on my own i followed the guidance and was watching the camshaft timing gear for the alignment marks and I also put a pencil into the spark plug hole of piston 1 to check when it reached it's highest point.

Unfortunately (and don't laugh), the end of the pencil was snapped off by the piston and sat on top of the piston. Now, I managed to retrieve most of it with a pair of tweezers but there is still a bit missing. The piston turns smoothly all the way round so I don't know where it's gone, maybe into the exhaust outlet.

So, my choices are to order a head gasket and pull the head off or try hoovering/blowing any remnants out and hoping the rest gets blown out of the exhaust port/burnt up.

Help!

Help!
 
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thats really quite funny.

imho I would have thought the pencil was too "soft" to cause any damage, especially just a little bit.

Does that mean your engine is now "leaded"?
 
I wouldn't sweat it mate. Get what you can out the rest shouldn't cause any damage. Will get burnt up and shot out of it's kyber.
 
Phew, that's what I hoped. Figured it would give somebody a laugh though! The worst is that in my annoyance I whacked the torque wrench which hit a spanner lying on the shock tower, it then flipped in the air and took a chunk out of the paint on the headlight cover. Much MUCH more swearing followed by a phone call to a mate who's got a Chipsaway franchise and owes me a favour.

Called it quits and went to pick the little un up from nursery instead. She then puked in the back of my A3 after I wet vacced it all out yesterday! Decided that wine is my friend and I'll sort everything out tomorrow.
 
Ah yes the old, 'my pencils broken off sticking it down the cylinder' routine.. Was is a HB or the really hard pencils?[:D]

Edd
 
OK, I laughed. Mainly 'cos it's exactly the sort of thing I would do!

The chaps are right tho'. Get as much out and don't worry about the rest. Wood is soft (in comparison to everything else that's in the engine!) and the graphite centre is pretty soft as well. In fact, graphite is a lubricant to very unlikely to do any harm.


Oli.
 
Made me chuckle, but we've all had days like that. [;)]

I remember a lecturer at collage many years ago, running a Vauxhall Cavalier Diesel whist taking to us students, didn't notice a lump of "elephants bog roll" he was holding was too close to the air intake. Engine sucked a large chunk in and stopped dead. Laugh? Nah - we all felt very sorry for him. NOT [:D]
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