Got the straw out

JRSutton · Mar 5, 2016

I posted a couple of days ago about losing the red straw of my fogging oil in one of my cylinders.

Well - I finally managed to get it out.

Finally got it with one of the three jaw gripper things.

It didn't take me this long to get it- I just gave up till the weekend.

I used a boroscope to see how it was sitting in there, and it was along the closest side of the cylinder - where I couldn't reach with the gripper of course.

So I just kept blasting air in there till it moved to a better spot - it finally got to a spot where I could see it through the plug hole - the rest was easy - gripper grabbed it and I yanked it right out.

I know I probably could have have fired it up and burned it out. But - "probably" never seems to work too well for me!

J.Wondergem · Mar 5, 2016

If you have my luck and tried to burn it, it would have left a gob on the edge of the valve.

ditchwitch · Mar 5, 2016

Good deal.. I wouldn't have tried to burn it out. That really don't sound like a good idea anyways. I would be scared something would have went wrong doing that.

JRSutton · Mar 5, 2016

that's exactly what I pictured happening - and running it for a week backfiring and sputtering before I finally gave in and pulled it
all apart.

I was happy to get it out.

David G · Mar 5, 2016

Your luck is better than mine, doubt I would get it out without pulling the head.

RayP(MI) · Mar 5, 2016

Big pat on the back. Things like that take me forever, and go from bad to worse.

notjustair · Mar 5, 2016

I was standing behind one of my Beetles when it ate the brass accelerator pump jet. It came flying out the exhaust when I revved it up. It whacked me in the shin. I didn't put it all together until I pulled the carb off because it had a stumble from idle. Must be common - the 58 GMC grain truck has eaten hers, too.

Bob · Mar 6, 2016

LOTSA drama over NOTHING.

You could have just simply started it up and gone on with life with NO fear of having a "gob" on a valve.

Ozlander · Mar 6, 2016

(quoted from post at 02:38:10 03/06/16) LOTSA drama over NOTHING.

You could have just simply started it up and gone on with life with NO fear of having a "gob" on a valve.

Yeah, gob would have lasted about 5 seconds, if that long.

JRSutton · Mar 6, 2016

Drama?

Clearly you took the conversation too seriously.

Got the straw out

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