 HELP!! broke chopsticks in combustion chamber, anyone for chinese? |
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| opera guy |
 Dec 31 2004, 05:40 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 337 Joined: 28-June 04 From: upland, ca Member No.: 2,268  |
sigh,
it was suggested to me from two different sources to use a stick (wooden dowel, pencil, chopsticks...etc) to put into the sparkplug hole to try to find TDC. Needless to say, when ever i work on my car, things gets... complex. so i got this chopstick in the sparkplug hole... turn the wheel and the chopstick started to go down.. down..good, this is going well, so i thought. then i kept turning the wheel, chopstick start to move up. IM EXCITED!! this is gonna work!!! yes!! then, snap, my chopstick broke in half. half was hanging out the sparkplug hole, the other half fell in! is my only alternative = pulling the heads? or can i somehow "fish" out the broken chopstick? argggg help this is a brand new rebuilt, less than 500 miles |
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| DJsRepS |
Jan 1 2005, 06:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 431 Joined: 4-November 04 From: Sarasota Florida Member No.: 3,060 |
Once the motor is running the airflow only goes one way out the exaust. That plastic wont stand an chance it wont stay around long enough to melt and stick to the cyl or valve. When dropped a valve from cracked springs it made a terrible noise I shut it down pulled over not knowing what happened asked my son to crank it I barley reved it the piston bent the stem and stuck it in the guide but the noise quit and I got home on 3cyl. Any way the reason I posted this is no cyl dammage no head dammage and that was a steel valve bouncing around in there. I did normal valve grind job all new springs and only one valve and guide. I did get LUCKY. So could you.
Anyway I can already tell you dont like my fire that muther method so you could try dropping the exaust if the valve is not open tighten the adj. then pipe in a powerful blower (eg gas driveway blower) to the port with the plug out and turn the crank oppisite the dir you were going incase the plastic is lodged/jammed by the piston that broke it. With all that air blowing in from the bottom of the cyl may churn that plastic around in there untill it sticks out the plug hole....... Another mad method experiment with another chopstick and cup zylene solvent (non acid) see how long it takes to liquefy the stick. If it works just fill that cyl time it the same as the test stick+ 30min leave out the plug put a rag on your plug hole and turn over by hand or go back to fire that muther up! |
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opera guy HELP!! broke chopsticks in combustion chamber Dec 31 2004, 05:40 PM
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I've got a... Dec 31 2004, 06:23 PM Bleyseng Aaa, I look at the flywheel notch or the fan for t... Dec 31 2004, 06:23 PM opera guy this is plastic chopsticks. looks like i will hav... Dec 31 2004, 06:27 PM URY914 Plastic- no problem. Stick a butain torch in there... Dec 31 2004, 06:35 PM opera guy Dec 31 2004, 06:52 PM DJsRepS Fire that muther up. Drive it at 5500 shifts aroun... Dec 31 2004, 08:40 PM Ray Warren Not sure if you can see it through the spark plug ... Dec 31 2004, 08:52 PM trekkor Remember the the Steve Martin bit, "Let's get ... Dec 31 2004, 09:16 PM Elliot Cannon Use a magnet!! No. Wait. That won't... Dec 31 2004, 10:06 PM kwales OK,
Hows about chewing gum on the end of a piece ... Dec 31 2004, 10:14 PM Rhodes71/914 I'm sorry but I don't think I would want t... Dec 31 2004, 10:15 PM kwales I've got a bunch of surgical graspers and thos... Dec 31 2004, 10:22 PM trekkor How about compresed air to blast it out?
Wear saf... Dec 31 2004, 10:34 PM bryanthompson Fill it with something more dense than the chopsti... Jan 1 2005, 01:03 AM TimT 
