midias

As crazy as this sounds I dropped the set screw off a poly lock into the intake valley and it went down the timing cover hole. I had the rest plugged. Any way I heard it fall down fairly far.

I plan on pulling the cover but I wanted to know if there was any way it could have made it into the pan? I would be happy to drain the oil and see if it comes out first before starting to take all the crap off to pull the cover.

sofakingdom

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More than likely, yes.

Absitively posolutely, ... no.

I dropped a lifter one time... exited out the pan in a beautiful .843" hole... musta landed on the pan baffle and the crank hit it... no other damage.

midias

Thanks, I have seen some impressive things make their way to the pan including big chunks of valve springs. I will rotate the engine by hand a few times and check the pan by draining it

redneckjoe

you might try dragging a relatively strong magnet from the cover down across to the drain plug area. kinda walk it to there. might get lucky?

midias

Yes I will give that a try. Still impressed by my ability to give my self more work.