There truly is a black hole. The first & only time I encountered it, I
dropped a socket & didn't hear it hit the floor. How hard could
something like that be to find anyway. looked & felt around for hours
with no luck. Being determined to find the socket, I pulled the whole
intake system & a few other parts to get a better look. There it was. A
seemingly bottomless hole that couldn't be directly accessed from above
or below.
A magnet on a flex handle found the socket. Wondering what else was down
there I fished some more & found some more stuff. Next changed to a claw
retriever & got some non magnetic parts. Finally some sticky stuff on
the end of a curved stick found even more stuff.
Carb parts & gaskets galore, nuts, washers, a stud, even another socket
& a very short end wrench. forty five years worth of dropped & never to
be found again things down there. I must have been the first serious
excavator.
The hole is now plugged with a tight fitting foam rubber plug. There are
few more diabolical hiding places than this one. Wonder if the factory
considered it a joke. I'm sure that factory workers must have had some
things dissapear also.
Dave Russell
BN2
John Miller wrote:
> On Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:58 am, Scott Willis wrote:
>
>>I dropped a banjo bolt from carb down into a frame strut while trying to
>>find out why the Mashed BN7 was not getting fuel. Criminy! I stuck a screw
>>driver in there to see how deep. Looks like it goes on for ever. I suppose
>>the banjo bolt is brass and a magnet will not pull out. This strut looks
>>like it might be a common spot to drop valuable parts into.
>>
>>Any suggestions? I finally get the engine back together and today was the
>>day to fire. No luck w/o gas.
>
>
> Get one of those...geez, I can't even begin to come up with a name for
> it...it's about 2 feet long, flexible like a Bowden cable, with a "claw" on
> one end and a plunger on the other. Should be able to find one for under $5.
>
> Yeah, it'll take a bit of feeling around in the blind, but you should be able
> to hook onto the banjo bolt in a lot less time than it would take you to turn
> the car upside down and shake it.
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