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

[Dave Londry]

Drain, pull the pan and check?
Dave

On 2022-02-11 7:55 p.m., Will Kooiman wrote:
> 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
>
>         [1]Sent from the all new AOL app for Android
>
>         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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