dropped washer in engine should I worry?

[mrbsyammy]

SOB I don't believe what I just did..*&^^%%$#$ taking cams out to put new head gasket on my xs1100 and sure as the sun rises in the east I dropped one of those tiny washer that sits under the cam nut right by the opening muther chicken cotton picking dirty rat etc etc. So is this something I should worry about considering its tiny or should I worry about because it is tiny??? SOB (*^%$#@#%&)(*&^%$#@#^*..
Till then Mr.Bill

[BA80]

Drop the oil pan. It will most likely be in there.

[mrbsyammy]

Drop the oil pan. It will most likely be in there.

I didn't want to hear that! Well I do have a gasket for it so I guess its not all that bad! but Iam still P Oed..All the ones I could have dropped it had to be that one SOB!!! Does that just drop or do I have to take other crap off? I wish I had it on my rack but theres been a wing on there for a LOOOONNNGGG time..
Thanks Till then..

P.S. my man Brad #2 won his 4 th race in NASCAR and dominated the race he will start in First on the chase race GO BRAD!!

[mrbsyammy]

I didn't want to hear that! Well I do have a gasket for it so I guess its not all that bad! but Iam still P Oed..All the ones I could have dropped it had to be that one SOB!!! Does that just drop or do I have to take other crap off? I wish I had it on my rack but theres been a wing on there for a LOOOONNNGGG time..
Thanks Till then..

P.S. my man Brad #2 won his 4 th race in NASCAR and dominated the race he will start in First on the chase race GO BRAD!!

The night ended well Brad won and I found the washer when I took the head off it was laying on the floor so it must have been between the fins? don't know don't care I found it yeah!!!
Till then Mr.Bill

[mrbsyammy]

how to check warpage on tops of jugs?

XS1100 how to check flatness (non warped) on the tops of cylinders were the head goes on with all the studs?
Till them Mr.Bill

[TopCatGr58]

Well,

Without an actual machinist's RULE, you could get a metal yard/meter stick, and use the EDGE to lay across the cylinders in different positions, across, perpendicular and oblique/diagonal avoiding the studs, and see if you can put a feeler gauge between the ruler's SIDE edge and the head??

If you have a large glass covered picture, painting or such, as long as the ruler, you can use it's surface to check the trueness of the metal yard sticks' EDGE beforehand. Glass is fairly stiff and usually quite flat....if it's a fairly large picture, I would leave it standing upright, the glass could flex a little when layed flat at that size!? JAT!

T.C.

[BA80]

Cylinder warpage is a very, very uncommon problem

[James England]

It's usually only the alloy heads that warp, not the cylinders.

[mrbsyammy]

Cylinder warpage is a very, very uncommon problem

The head is great so the heck with the jugs..lol
Thanks Till then

[TomB]

Well,

Without an actual machinist's RULE, you could get a metal yard/meter stick, and use the EDGE to lay across the cylinders in different positions, across, perpendicular and oblique/diagonal avoiding the studs, and see if you can put a feeler gauge between the ruler's SIDE edge and the head??

If you have a large glass covered picture, painting or such, as long as the ruler, you can use it's surface to check the trueness of the metal yard sticks' EDGE beforehand. Glass is fairly stiff and usually quite flat....if it's a fairly large picture, I would leave it standing upright, the glass could flex a little when layed flat at that size!? JAT!

T.C.

I found something way flatter than glass, the preformed rolled edge kitchen counter tops are very flat if not screwed down distorting them, I ran a DTI in big arcs over ours at home (whilst the wife was out) it was 0.0015" out, yes 1 and 1/2 thou, you could easily check a head on it using feeler gauges, it would be accurate enough.

[mrbsyammy]

I found something way flatter than glass, the preformed rolled edge kitchen counter tops are very flat if not screwed down distorting them, I ran a DTI in big arcs over ours at home (whilst the wife was out) it was 0.0015" out, yes 1 and 1/2 thou, you could easily check a head on it using feeler gauges, it would be accurate enough.

its as flat as? no I'm not going there..lol lol..used my thinnest feeler gauge and a 6 in metal ruler and it is perfect lucked out on this one..
Till then n thanks