I was adjusting the valves on my RS. When I went to start the motor, I had left a glove on the tbi by accident, and it got sucked in. What should I do? Please help!!!!!

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I would start by pulling the TB and seeing if its still in the intake track.

If you cant fish it out from there, you should pull the intake and try to track that thing down.

My guess is its still right under the TB in an intake runner.

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[This message has been edited by Engineboy (edited November 11, 2001).]

 

That's gotta be a first. Well, at least a rarity.

The latex shouldn't cause any damage until it gets to the cat converter. It probably hasn't gone past the valves yet, but you never know...

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If it makes it into a cylinder, it'll be OK. As long as it doesn't hang up on a valve.

Does the car run right? If it does, no missing or roughness, then it's long gone, no problems.

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When I started it back up, it sucked in the glove and back fired, so I shut it off. I don't have a cat so that should not be a problem. Gas breaks down latex doesn't it? Thanks for the advice. I'm going to try to crank it. I'll let ya'll know.


[This message has been edited by Blue92 (edited November 11, 2001).]

 

OH ****! Thats all I really gotta say. If that happened I would never turn my engine on until I got rid of it.

 

How do I know that the rough running of the engine now, is not the valves turned to tight? This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever done. Just a quick valve adjustment has turned into a nightmare from hell! The engine will run kinda smooth for a couple of seconds and then run rough for awhile.

 

Valves were too tight. She runs like a top know. Thanks too everyone for your replies.

 

What ever happened to the glove?

 

It probally got fried in a cylinder.
Just be happy it wasnt a cloth glove could have been worse.

 

Well, that's ONE way to dispose of used latex. I'll have to remember that one...

I'm glad it all worked out (pun intended).

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Thats about as funny as when I forgot to put the drum back on my truck then proceeded to drive off...

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That makes my mind think bad things..

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I replaced the intake on my 350 over the summer, and left a shop rag in the intake port of the head.
I realized it after everything was all tight, and after the dist. was in and everything.
so I just said F**k it, and fired it up. it ran like hell for about 30sec. and then it was fine.

 

gee, i once left a wrench in the lifter valley, tightened down the intake, then went to look for the wrench and couldn't find it. luckily i remembered it before i put the rest of the car together.

 

The wrench in the lifter valley probably wouldnt do anything at all, assuming it was sufficiently large enough to not find its way into an oil return. It would rattle like hell, but run fine.

 

who would it run fine, especially inces from your lifters

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90 RS 305 tbi, 4 3/4" cowl Hood, Edelbrock TES headers, Flowmaster exhaust, Crane roller cam, comp roller rockers, vortec heads/intake, ported tbi, w/new injectors, MSD probillet Distributer/ coil, 1 inch tbi spacer, air foil, 14x4 k&n flat base air cleaner, Rebuilt 700r4 w/ B&M shift kit, B&M Megashifter, 3.23 posi, 2 12 RF's with mtx amp, top of line alpine cd player, soon to have 90-91 gfx, z-28 wing, new paintjob, rims, and all new lowered suspension.

 

While installing my Superram, I had the top cover off the start the bolt up from the bottom. I had just finnished and removed the 2" masking tape I had covering the ports. Wouldn't you know after taking the last piece of tape of I knocked a bolt off of cowl and it fell into the upper plenumn. It didn't fall down the port. Lucky me, so I thought. I got the extending magnet from box to pick up bolt, reached in with magnet, and the f'n tip of the magnet came off of the extended handle. Right down the number 6 port. It was like slow motion, like in the movie a Christmas story, when all the lug nuts go flying, and Ralphie says o-h f-u-d-g-e. I spent about an hour trying to fish it out, with duct tape on an old antenna, another magnet, no luck. Finally disassembled the whole intake and found the little magnet head stuck to the intake valve. Brought that little bastard to work the next day, and dropped in an old battery to let the acid have its way with it.

That latex glove didn't have a chance in there. Ever get gas or ATF on one of those? They fall apart in no time. Imagine a flame on it.

 

dude im sorry but thats too funny it honestly sounds like something that would happen to me..................


who need recycling anyways!!!!!

 

see, rubbers are not always safe.

 

...If you're humping your engine.

 

hell yah, **** rubbers :hail: now the time for satin has come where we shall once again raise and take stand and say "no more rubbers"

 

I long time ago I took my intake off and when putting it back on I noticed I was 1 bolt short. I looked everywhere for it. The shop was clean and and I was dreading that it might have fallen in the engine. well i never did find it and started the car with no problems. Point is. I never wanna fell that pain again. My heart was jumping out of my chest

 

I dropped a oil pressure fitting into an oil return hole last time I worked on my car if it makes you guys feel better. And it got caught in the rotating assembly for a little while, but now rests at the bottom of the oil pan. My father thought I was kidding when I told him

 

i always wonder, i take my car apart put all the bolts in seperate bags, i need up with either way to many or no where near enough..odd isnt it...its the **** bolt fairy stealin them again

 

The bolt fairy sucks! When I bought my wife's Cadillac, I decided to change the air filter. I popped the cap off and there was a dead squirrel in there and a bunch of nuts. Odd. Anyways, the thing had a valve tap. A really light one, but I thought it might have a bent pushrod or something. So, I pull the rockers off and look at the rods, and they all seemed fine. So, I start thinking maybe she has a bad lifter. The f*ck*ng Haynes manual said that you could get a lifter puller and pull the lifters through the pushrod holes in the intake and not have to take the intake off! Great! So, I buy the tool, and put it down the first hole and grab the lifter. I pull it up, and it won't fit out the hole! It falls back down in the lifter valley. I had to take the whole SOB apart and put that lifter back in. Haynes manuals suck sometimes. I got so fed up with it, I just put it all back together. That was 4 years ago and that car STILL has the same tap. Hasn't gotten any worse since I bought it so I'm just going to leave it. Matt

 

Also, when I was doing my head gasket on my GTA last month, I had put the head on and bolted it back down. I have a shop light that hangs from the ceiling down in the engine for light. I get everything bolted back up and realize that the cord for this light is between the cylinder head and the bracket that holds the AC compressor and smog pump. NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I thought to myself. I think I said a few choice words. That bracket has two bolts that go into the head. I was able to get those out, but the others were stuck like chuck and there was NO way I could get that bracket off. I was starting to think I was going to have to pull the head to get this stupid cord out! Finally, I just took out those top two bolts on that bracket and got a big azz prybar and was able to move it over just enough to slide that cord out. It almost sucked something fierce! Matt

 

LOL!! ^^^ THAT'S CLASSIC!!

I think I would have just cut the cord in frustration.

 

I did this when I was cleaning under the hood one time.

 

The engine grew a hand! Is that to smack those Fords around some more?

 

Scorp's oil pan. He drove it with the "mystery bolt" for thousands of miles before he finally got around to pulling the motor to see what it was. Turns out one of the 4 bolts that hold the bottom plate to the oil pump had worked itself loose.

For months all of the corvette forum members were dumb-founded over what it was and why his car still ran so well.

 

glad everthing worked out ok, the dumbest thing i've ever done is, never mind thats not 3rd gen related. but me and my dad once made a bet one who can do the front barkes faster. and do them right. so he got the stuff and we went st it, i did it a little faster only cause he was having a problem with the pads fitting over the rotor. neway we went for a ride and heard thishorrible sound, we tought i did it wrong cause it was puling to the side he did, and so we then saw nothing wrong with my side and took his side off and
yeah they were in reversed.

 

When changing my transmission one time I removed my carb so i could go after a couple bolts from the top. I had a roots blower at the time.

I was smart enough to stick paper towells over the top of the blower so junk wouldnt get in there, but not smart enough to remove them before i put the carb back on and started the car. Couldnt figure out why it wouldnt turn over. 4 starters and 2 batteries later, I took the carb off and saw part of a paper towell in the blower. Another 2 hours later i had taken my blower apart, removed teh paper towells, and put it back together.

Everything was fine.

SECOND BIGGEST GOOF I AM STILL WORKING ON.

It should be a mastercard commercial

500HP custom built 383 stroker (FULL ROLLER MOTOR) $4000
5 Quarts of OIL $13
Not seating your distributor 100% and starting the motor for the first time WITHOUT the oil pump turning - PRICELESS

:-(

I guess i hadnt tightened the distro bolt very much because i knew i was going to have to adjust the timing. WHen i started it the distro worked its self up just enough to not turn the oil pump... I didnt notice it for about 20 seconds.

I now have 2 bent pushrods. I had primed the motor well, and i don't think the pistons etc were damaged. I hope not anyway.

It ran for a while with good oil pressure before i noticed it went to 0...

Solid Ful Roller Cam .560 lift or so

 

Dumbest thing I did was...

I had the front bumper repainted, whoever was working at the shop spilled white paint and I had little spots of white paint all over the car.

I was so pissed, and clearly NOT thinking, I used a cloth and alittle paint thinner to remove it, and I went right down to the primer LOL

 

hmm, would that be a good way to prep the body for new paint?

...seriously? lol

 

Yeah it would of..haha but I had JUST gotten my car back from the shop because I smashed the front bumper..

 

hahaha these are pretty good.

one time when i was checking the fluid in my tranny i couldnt feel my finger because it was a little cold outside. so i just got an allen wrench figuring i could use it like a dip stick. well it worked great, i pulled out the allen wrench and saw it was full, so thinking it was a dipstick, i just slid it right back in. i didnt realize what had happened untill i had tightened the plug and i noticed one of my allen wrenches was missing. so very calmly, i lit a cigar, stared at the car for a while, went out back, got a baseball bat and said a few choice words as i pounded a tree. then , having accepted my fate, i begain to pull the transmission.

sure enough, the wrench was right at the bottom, just waiting to jump up and strip some gears.

 

:sillylol: :sillylol: :sillylol: :sillylol: all of your stories are sooooooo funny that made my night. THANK YOU:sillylol:

 

I dont feel so stupid anymore LOL.

Back in the day when I had the badass lo3 I was swapping intakes. Well I had an entire pink bathroom towel in there. HUGE towel. I went right ahead and put the new edelbrock TBI intake on and everything. Then I thought. OH $##%^& were is that towel? Sure enough it was in the lifter valley. Glad I remembered.

I'm always paranoid Im gonna drop bolts into my ports so I use huge towels over everything...then someone forget the towels.

 

my friend races buick 455s. I was helping him one day prep his 70 gs 455 for storage. he was working with the aircleaner off under the hood while i revved it inside the car. Somehow...he took the air cleaner stud out and placed it on top the carb. While i revved it, by some ungodly miracle, it sucked the stud in....RIGHT INTO THE PISTON and proceeded to blow the engine.

My friend had quite a bit of cash invested in the engine. He's since taken it apart...and tried to recreate the incident, but still cant figure out how the stud got through the intake, past the valve, and into the piston. He's actually become rather obsessed with the incident, always studying it....

 

OMG!!!!! I just sprayed my monitor!!! :sillylol: :sillylol:

 

That just happenned to me last weekend. My car stalled and after restarting it the vaccuum gauge was going crazy. I knew it was a valve hanging open. I only had to drive another block and when I pulled into the parking lot of my mother's place the motor started rattling like crazy!

As soon as I opened the hood I noticed that the air cleaner stud was missing. Right then and there I knew it was in the motor. I started pulling the driver side spark plugs and found that number 7 was bashed. Ah well, now I had a reason to install my Air Gap intake.

 

Sure beats flushing em and having the toilet stop up at the in-laws... oh wait ... wrong kind of latex glove

 

stupidest thing i ever did was: my dad has a 34 ford with a flat head, and he was pulling the motor, he had everything un-done, and was going to pull it the next day, well me and my brother alway are joking to him that his car is slow- sounds like this or that, and basicly the hole ford vs. chevy thing, anyhow, since all the work was done me and my brother pulled the motor over night and in its place we put a giant rubber band we had that was all twisted up, (rubber band motor) well we thought it would be funny, Then we both got "lashings" from my dad, for tuching his car. to this day i remember his face when he opend the hood. a look of What the *&#^ and im gonna kill someone, unfortunatly he's a faster runner then me!!!

 

Okay, here's what I did>
Last summer all I had to do was change the thermostat in my car. Pretty simple job. I managed to get the new one on just fine. But when I went to put the bolts back on, they wouldn't screw in tight. I HAD STRIPPED THE ALUMINUM BLOCK. I was talking to two friends while I took the old one off and I guess I wasn't paying attention and twisted it the wrong way at first. I nearly cried. I was late for work, my brother (my boss) had to borrow a car to come and get me (his was in the shop) and my car was f*****. Fortunately, I ran into a friend of mine the next day and he took off work to come and fix it for me. But my dad and brother will never ever let me forget it.

 

Stripping out a bolt hole on an aluminum intake is pretty common.

I had a stripped T-stadt housing bolt on my old Dodge, but I actually managed to find a shorter/thicker bolt , and forced it in enough to work. Held till I sold it.

 

Thanks, I don't feel so dumb anymore!

 

When I was putting headers on my '88 GTA, i was having a ball trying to get the headers in on the passenger side. Anyway, it was real difficult to tighten the bolts that had the primaries in the way, especially since my headers had AIR tubes. Well i dropped by wrench under teh car for the 100th time, i took my other wrench and threw it in the general direction of my motor. It hit a couple runners on the intake manifold, crushing those, and bounced up and put a little but very noticeable ding in my hood...........

 

One day I was working on my first bird, a crappy little 2.8 beater, changing the pulgs to be exact. Well it had been a while since the bird had plugs done so they were stuck pretty good. I had a spark plug socket on a ratchet and a breaker bar and was happly whailing away when the ratchet popped off along with half a spark plug. I threw the ratchet and proceeded to cry because I was sure I had busted a plug in the head and was going to have to pull the head off and drill the plug out.

My dad laughed really hard when I called him in tears. All I had to do was stick a bigger ratchet onto the rest of the plug and turn it the rest of the way out.