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

[Will Kooiman]

Hi Mike,

Pretty sure it is open to the pan.  Not a big deal to drain the oil and check, since the engine is out of the car.

If it's full of oil, I don't see how it could tink-tink-tink, unless you dropped something big - like the oil pump drive shaft.

Will.

On 2/11/22, 5:23 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of racerglen--- via DeTomaso" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

       Mike,

       I had the exact same thing happen to me.

       I had one of the nuts from coil connection drop in.

       Most thought it would make it to the oil pan.

       It got caught between a crank lobe and a rod and froze the crank.
       Pulled the motor to remove pan and knocked it out with a screwdriver
       and hammer.

       Kind of embarrassing but I guess it happens.

       Glen

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       On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:46 AM, 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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