I dropped one of the chain tensioner oil pipe banjo bolts down into the oil galley next to the #2 cylinder. Has this happened to anyone else??? I'm in a panic state right now, what can I do??

Evan

 

Leave it there. There's no way that it's going anywhere to cause damage
to your engine.

Get a new banjo bolt and relax.

gb

 

Telescoping magnetic pickup may get it..

Good luck!

 

Every toolbox needs one of these!

BB.

 

Too bad the break so damn easy

I've had 6 or 7 now and I never break em..but my friends wanna play with em and they go SNAP

 

I have taken a magnet, epoxied it to a small flexable cable and fished one out. You may also pull the drain plug and see if it went all the way through.Pray 1st

 

They also have grabby claws at the end of flex shafts. I don't know how big the galley is, but you could also get a boroscope to see how it sits down in there, then decide if you need a magnetic telescope, a flex magnet, a flex claw, or maybe just some bailing wire (this was what finally rooted the helicoil out of my front rotor housing in my RX7 turbo II)...

 

Un-freakin-believable.
I was changing the pad on 944s2guy's car on Monday and we may have done the exact same thing. I heard something but didn't see it fall and I was looking right at it. We tried a small vacuum and drained the oil to see if it made it that far but never found anything. If it did fall it went into the oil return. We eventually gave up and started the engine and it's been fine.

 

i dropped one of those stupid serrated head down there. couldnt get it out for the life in me. lucky i was using it to get the head off. bought another one, got the head of and there it was. for future reference, plug every hole in your head before you start working on it.

 

It's an aluminum crush washer. Forget the magnet.

 

It'll be ok, I dropped a nut in there, and the car ran just fine.

 

I wouldn't leave it in there.

 

where the hell is this place at on the engine? maybe thats where all of my intake manifold bolts have gone

 

Oh... you mean the place where you fill oil up at? That is more toward cylinder 3 or 4 right?

 

When in doubt, pull the engine...