[DeTomaso] Ooops - What Have I Done to Myself??

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Yikes!
That location is open to the front of the engine and the sump.  Depending on what fell in, it could land on the timing gear set and ruin you day quick by lodging between the chain and a gear before maybe dropping into the pan.

Get a bore scope and look around in there through the dizzy hole.

Are sure it was a sound of something dropping into the block and not something in or on the distributor?

Asa  Jay


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> On Feb 11, 2022, at 11:47, Mike & Elizabeth <mbefthomas2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    I had pulled the dizzy off the engine for 6328, which is on rollers in
>   the garage, to spin the oil pump and push some oil through the engine
>   while it's sitting waiting for the refreshed car.  As I went to drop
>   the dizzy back into it's hole, I heard a tiny little tink-tink-tink of
>   something dropping I'm pretty sure into the dizzy hole that must have
>   been resting on the edge or come from somewhere else.  My first
>   response - oh crap!!
> 
> 
>   So, I'm not sure what it was but I'm pretty sure it's down there.
>   Question for the collective: what is at the bottom of that hole?  Is it
>   open to the sump at the bottom and I only need to drop the pan to be
>   sure I've not screwed the pooch or did it likely land somewhere in
>   between and I've got a bit of tear-down to do?  I doubt it will come
>   out simply by draining the oil but that will be my first check.  I'm
>   lucky that the engine is not in the car but have feeling that may be
>   where my luck stops.
> 
> 
>   Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions and commiseration.
> 
> 
>   Mike Thomas
> 
>   '74 #6328
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