 HELP!! broke chopsticks in combustion chamber, anyone for chinese? |
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| opera guy |
 Dec 31 2004, 05:40 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 337 Joined: 28-June 04 From: upland, ca Member No.: 2,268  |
sigh,
it was suggested to me from two different sources to use a stick (wooden dowel, pencil, chopsticks...etc) to put into the sparkplug hole to try to find TDC. Needless to say, when ever i work on my car, things gets... complex. so i got this chopstick in the sparkplug hole... turn the wheel and the chopstick started to go down.. down..good, this is going well, so i thought. then i kept turning the wheel, chopstick start to move up. IM EXCITED!! this is gonna work!!! yes!! then, snap, my chopstick broke in half. half was hanging out the sparkplug hole, the other half fell in! is my only alternative = pulling the heads? or can i somehow "fish" out the broken chopstick? argggg help this is a brand new rebuilt, less than 500 miles |
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| Bruce Allert |
Jan 6 2005, 08:43 AM
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Hellions asleep Group: Members Posts: 3,289 Joined: 19-March 03 From: Eagle Creek, Orygun Member No.: 441 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I keep coming back to this thread cuz I'm having trouble invisioning what happened. I've done this with a pencil (eraser down on the piston) turned wheel, watch it go up... no problems. What actually caused the stick to break? OK, so.... Chopsticks are what, 7 to 8" long? (at least the ones I've used are). This is what I'm having trouble with... if said stick is the above mentioned length and half of it is in the cylinder it's gonna be mighty hard to float then retreive that 3-4" piece from within due to its length and the size of the spark plug hole. Also, most chopsticks are at least 3/16's to a 1/4" thick. I doubt if it would pass thru the valve clearance... think of the angle it would need to be at in order for it to do that (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/idea.gif) If (a very big IF) a fishing excursion were to be successful I'd start by getting the most area available by having the piston at its lowest to enable my moving the stick to an appropriate place and grabbing the end of the stick. Success would prolly be total luck since this movement would be like driving while blind (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/rolleyes.gif) but it'd be fun trying (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif) (for awhile) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) ....b |
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opera guy HELP!! broke chopsticks in combustion chamber Dec 31 2004, 05:40 PM
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I've got a... Dec 31 2004, 06:23 PM Bleyseng Aaa, I look at the flywheel notch or the fan for t... Dec 31 2004, 06:23 PM opera guy this is plastic chopsticks. looks like i will hav... Dec 31 2004, 06:27 PM URY914 Plastic- no problem. Stick a butain torch in there... Dec 31 2004, 06:35 PM opera guy Dec 31 2004, 06:52 PM DJsRepS Fire that muther up. Drive it at 5500 shifts aroun... Dec 31 2004, 08:40 PM Ray Warren Not sure if you can see it through the spark plug ... Dec 31 2004, 08:52 PM trekkor Remember the the Steve Martin bit, "Let's get ... Dec 31 2004, 09:16 PM Elliot Cannon Use a magnet!! No. Wait. That won't... Dec 31 2004, 10:06 PM kwales OK,
Hows about chewing gum on the end of a piece ... Dec 31 2004, 10:14 PM Rhodes71/914 I'm sorry but I don't think I would want t... Dec 31 2004, 10:15 PM kwales I've got a bunch of surgical graspers and thos... Dec 31 2004, 10:22 PM trekkor How about compresed air to blast it out?
Wear saf... Dec 31 2004, 10:34 PM bryanthompson Fill it with something more dense than the chopsti... Jan 1 2005, 01:03 AM TimT 
