Dropped screw into turbo 😱

[roro]

So as some might have, I had a dummy moment and dropped a blow off valve screw (aluminum of course) down the intercooler pipe and into the turbo I presume. Anyone had this issue? I’m assuming my only options are get a micro vacuum kit/hose for my shop vac and try and suck it out or I’ll have to take a bunch of stuff off to take the turbo off and retrieve it that way. Luckily I can take the wife’s car for work, but definitely gotta get this remedied.
So take this as a reminder and be careful with your screws as the chances of one falling into that little hole into the turbo are low, but never zero… lol

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[Blue Streak]

So as some might have, I had a dummy moment and dropped a blow off valve screw (aluminum of course) down the intercooler pipe and into the turbo I presume. Anyone had this issue? I’m assuming my only options are get a micro vacuum kit/hose for my shop vac and try and suck it out or I’ll have to take a bunch of stuff off to take the turbo off and retrieve it that way. Luckily I can take the wife’s car for work, but definitely gotta get this remedied.
So take this as a reminder and be careful with your screws as the chances of one falling into that little hole into the turbo are low, but never zero… lol

The only zero is no hole, it just falls some place else where you can't find it. I was rebuilding my side loader 3 speed for my 57 Ranchero. Putting the side cover on I dropped a bolt, one bounce off the side cover & straight into the speedometer gear hole into the tail shaft. Yep tear down again, I learned to cover holes if possible. Good luck.

 

[veedubtuner]

Meh, just start her up and give her a few good revs and it'll pop out of the tail pipe .




Kidding of course, hope you can get it out without too much trouble.

 

[AzScorpion]

Meh, just start her up and give her a few good revs and it'll pop out of the tail pipe .




Kidding of course, hope you can get it out without too much trouble.

Reminds of the movie Gone In 60 Seconds where they're trying to get the heroin off the floor by revving up that old Cadillac and the exhaust blowing it away. lol

 

[Stevedbvik1]

Meh, just start her up and give her a few good revs and it'll pop out of the tail pipe .




Kidding of course, hope you can get it out without too much trouble.

Actually it’s on the pressure side of the turbo so unless it’s all the way down into the compressor housing it would end up in the intercooler after starting up. And in won’t go backwards from there. I would probably not chance it. Maybe

 

[roro]

I believe it should be at the bottom of the turbo just at the bottom of the little slide inside for lack of a better term that I know of lol. So I’ll be trying to use a small hose and vacuum it out hopefully. Had it gone down the side towards the intercooler would have been better as it likely wouldn’t have made it to it the intercooler with the longer tube on that side

 

[Stevedbvik1]

I believe it should be at the bottom of the turbo just at the bottom of the little slide inside for lack of a better term that I know of lol. So I’ll be trying to use a small hose and vacuum it out hopefully. Had it gone down the side towards the intercooler would have been better as it likely wouldn’t have made it to it the intercooler with the longer tube on that side

May the Force be with you

 

[Dr_Strangelove]

Might be worth it to run to Harbor Freight and grab a borescope inspection camera with a light on it... Not sure if that's something Autozone rents but maybe.

 

[PltFX4]

Uhhhmmmm, might try a shop vac to see if it can sucked out.. lite aluminum screw.. empty the shop vac and clean the tank/tub... screw should then be easy to find it if the process works...

 

[got3fords]

Working on an old Ford tractor one time, dropped a nut, looked everywhere for it, couldn't find it. As soon as I fired up that big straight 6 I knew where it went. The owner got a free head gasket replacement so I could retrieve the nut from the top of a piston.

 

[roro]

Might be worth it to run to Harbor Freight and grab a borescope inspection camera with a light on it... Not sure if that's something Autozone rents but maybe.

I’ll be attempting retrieval tonight via shop vac. I’ll update if it works
Otherwise I’ll get the camera before absolutely have to rip everything off

 

[Rinn69]

I’ll be attempting retrieval tonight via shop vac. I’ll update if it works
Otherwise I’ll get the camera before absolutely have to rip everything off

 

[Blue Streak]

I’ll be attempting retrieval tonight via shop vac. I’ll update if it works
Otherwise I’ll get the camera before absolutely have to rip everything off

Let us know if you find that 10mm we all looking for.

 

[dtech]

Working on an old Ford tractor one time, dropped a nut, looked everywhere for it, couldn't find it. As soon as I fired up that big straight 6 I knew where it went. The owner got a free head gasket replacement so I could retrieve the nut from the top of a piston.

yeah I remember a friend came to me with a garage diagnosed head gasket issue on a rare and and fast 351 boss mustang, they wanted big bucks for the job so I said I do it for far less, did the job assuming it was a bad head gasket, I told him to take it easy for a few days, so we all went to our annual summer opening bar lakeside at Lake Erie, I'm driving home on the NY state thruway at 2:00 am when I see a car rapidly overtaking from the rear, it flies by me going at least 100 mph, 20 miles or so down the road I see a car pulled over on fire. It was the mustang and turns out it wasn't a head gasket at all but a leaking soft plug in the block. Sh*t happens.

 

[TJC]

The only zero is no hole, it just falls some place else where you can't find it. I was rebuilding my side loader 3 speed for my 57 Ranchero. Putting the side cover on I dropped a bolt, one bounce off the side cover & straight into the speedometer gear hole into the tail shaft. Yep tear down again, I learned to cover holes if possible. Good luck.

OH MAN ! I gotta laugh. But I've done worse...

I cracked a perfectly good block in my 66 Chevy II over 40 years ago. I was losing oil through the valve guides, and could not afford to have the heads done, so I decided to add a stop gap by installing little valve stem gaskets that looked a lot like umbrellas that supposedly keeps the oil from seeping into the combustion chamber. I never found out if they worked or not.

I didn't want to pull the head so I fashioned an exhaust U clamp into just the right bend to hold the valve closed - I snaked it through the spark plug hole! Compressed the valve spring, took off the retaining clips, then added the valve stem gaskets, reinstalled, and moved to the next cylinder. Was on the last one and had put the gasket on, but had not yet pulled my little tool out of the cylinder.

Got an important work phone call and went inside to take the message, 30 minutes later came out and a fired it up!

YIKES! I had left the modified exhaust U hanger in the last cylinder! At the first clunk I shut the engine off, but it was tooo late - Man what a big bang, got out and installed the last spark plug, said a little prayer and fired the engine up... White smoke! Then pulled the dipstick and watched the oil go from black to cream in under a minute as the engine ran.

Pulled the head, and rotated the engine by hand, and watched green anti-freeze seep into into the cylinder when the piston was fully lowered... within second it filled the cylinder through a 3" long hairline crack! Pulled the engine and installed a replacement motor.

What a nightmare! Lesson learned! Don't take shortcuts. It seldom pays off.

Be deliberate.

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