Piece of hard plastic between no. 2 cilinder and engine tin, How can I best remove it? Options

[Marcel Aircooled]

When checking my spark plugs I found a loose piece of hard plastic inbetween the no. 2 cilinder and the engine tin. It turns out to be one of the alternator inspection covers. I have no idea how it got there and unfortunately it is just too big to fit through the spark plug hole in the engine tin so I cannot get it out of there. I found the plastic piece a year ago and only just recently found out it is one of the inspection covers and it does not seem to do any harm where it is now but it just bugs me knowing it is there. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get it out from under the engine tin without removing the engine? Would it be easy to remove the engine tin only where the plastic piece is located? Or any suggestions how to break or bend the plastic piece?

Here's a picture (sorry for the poor quality) of the piece seen through the spark plug hole


This is an example picture of the part I am talking about

[rjames]

It's plastic and light. You could proably get away with just putting some gorrilla tape or some high-temp aluminum tape (that stuff is super sticky) folded over on itself to be doubesided and use it on the end of something skinny to get get in there and snag it.

[Marcel Aircooled]

It's plastic and light. You could proably get away with just putting some gorrilla tape or some high-temp aluminum tape (that stuff is super sticky) folded over on itself to be doubesided and use it on the end of something skinny to get get in there and snag it.

Thanks for the tip James. That might be a good idea to get it close to the SP hole only not sure what to use to break it as it is too big to fit through the hole.