need help bad

[ppv]

Today while getting ready to put on my valve cover. I dropped one of the bolts down the timming chian hole. Icant see it and Im wondering if anybody knows if thiers a easy way to get it out. Or will it drop in to the oil pan ? Dont know what to do Thanks for any and all help. its a spare engine

[TopCatGr58]

Hey PPV,

9 views, and no replies?? Is this spare engine IN the frame or out?? Out of the frame, you could turn the engine up side down.
Could try a magnet fishing tool.

There is a prominent shelf area near the bottom of the chain tensioning levers, but it has a gap in the middle that leads to the bottom loop of the chain along with the crankshaft. If it doesn't get bound by the chain/crank shaft, then hopefully it'll roll off of the chain and down into the lower oil/tranny pan.

Good luck fishing from the top, but you'll probably have to pull the pan!
T.C.

[dbeardslee]

Might try one of those little parts grabbers if you can see it. I think TC's magnet idea would probably be easiest. If it's in the pan I wonder if you could use a magnet to move it over to the drain plug hole.

[Ken Talbot]

Here's my earlier reply to a member who dropped a washer down the hole....

Only dropped one washer down the hole? You need to remove the oil pan first. Then, lay on your back on the left side of the bike with your feet towards the front wheel. Reach over with your right hand and put it up inside the open hole with your fingers forward. Chances are you will put your hand right on the washer. If you don't find it immediately, pat around with your fingers.

BTDT, DAMHIKIJD

It works!!

[thewiz]

BTDT, DAMHIKIJD ?

Clue me in on this abbrev please, Mr Talbot, .... or anyone

[prometheus578]

"Ken makes strange references."

Been there, done that...Don't ask me how I know, I just do.

Really, I had thought someone would have commented on:
"...lay on your back on the left side... ...with your feet towards the front... ...Reach over with your right hand and put it up inside the open hole with your fingers forward..."
( Almost sounds like playing a game of "Naked" Twister.)

[thewiz]

Thx, Prom ...

I really need to add that one into my confuser abbrev vocab .... love it.

[SiP]

Never found mine - bike runs great. When I asked the same question a guy on here told me how he'd dropped one down there - took the bottom off ot look for the one he'd dropped and found two more and a couple of washers.

[ppv]

Thank you for all the replys. Its a motor sitting on my tool bench. Im very happy that I dont have to take head & cylinders off. Ill try tipping the motor over. Could not get it with magnet. Cant even see bolt. Thank you all for very good info

[planedick]

On bench

Would be real easy to take off the pan and fish it out if nothing else works.

[ppv]

Tried tipping it over nothing came out but oil. NextIlltake off oil pan. THANXS for all info. Let you all know when i get it out

[wa407mpp]

I can feel your pain!

Once I dropped a wrist pin clip for my 500 triple that way and couldn't get it out, it ended up wedged between the crank and the case and I had to split the cases to get to it. Being a two stroke it didn't have an oil pan and it wouldn't allow the crank to turn, talk about close tolerance, between crank and case.

[79XS11F]

BUMMER ... and one way or another you need to get that bolt out ...
This is why it is very wise to plug all openings into the engine with clean shop rages when working on the engine.
Rob