I'm gonna attempt to get it out tomorrow. I dropped the heads off today to get them cleaned and shaved. I am hoping the magnet trick works, I'll have to pick one up first. Will let you know when I succeed or fail :/

 

wow, should def get that out, it would suck to have an incomplete set...

 

Socal, the only problem I have with leaving it in there is if the vortex from the water pump sucks it in the fins and locks it up, thus causing the new timing belt I just put on to burn up and causing catastrophic failure from the cams and crank not turning in synch

 

Bwahahah!

 

yes, it was funny

 

If it fell DOWN the hole, it will be small enough to come back UP the hole, no?

 

I'm going fishing tomorrow, I will let you know if I catch what I'm looking for

 

The 3.0 is a non-interference motor, the valves wont hit the pistons.

I thought it fell into the rear of the block? It's captured back there if it is, only if it's in the front on the drivers side can it get into the water pump, but the pump pushes flow into the engine if memory serves.
The biggest bummer is the incomplete set like somebody said . It wasn't a Snap-On socket was it?

 

Happy hunting.

 

snap on are some GREAT tools. i have a couple sets, but most of my tools are sears.... not the best, but the BEST warranty. im always snapping tools for some reason, and sears replaces em no questions asked. its awesome. good luck fishin, bring me back some socketfish!

 

I caught the big one today! It's a beauty!

 

get it stuffed and mounted for over the fireplace

 

Yeah. And tell us what it taste like.

 

haha looks purdy. great catch

 

Thank goodness, I was loosing a lot of sleep over this one.

 

Well at least this was easily fixable. Not like reading ft/lbs instead of in/lbs and breaking a damn bolt off in the block.

 

just so everyone knows, When I worked at the dealer and we were doing all the recall HG jobs, one of the techs on my team dropped a bolt down the big square hole into the crankcase and he figured it would just go down in the oil pan. Well about 10 seconds after he started it there was a loud bang and a bunch of knocking insued. Well it never made it to the pan, It got caught between the crankshaft and the main bearing girdle and broke the main bearing girdle.

The moral of this story is....

If you drop something where it does not belong you'd probably be better off getting it out.

 

Did he keep workin there after that or did he have to move on lol?

 

As a matter of fact he did not lose his job. The fellow was a good technician and probably would not have let that go except at the time we were under a lot of pressure to get those headgasket jobs out. In about 18 months I think I did about 200 of them myself. along with the normal work we would see.

 

You could probibly do one in your sleep now