Hrsturbo

what's the worst that can happen if you drop a nut into an oil way in the head on a cvh?

Anonymous

i thought this was another thread about tiff

St3V3_C

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You'll break your engine.



Use a magnetic pickup tool to find it?

GARETH T

Sean_RS

worst thing.... *crunch*..*BANG*...

Rick

if its in the oil return, it'll drop into the sump

Hrsturbo

it wasn't me it wa a garage I went to which I won't name right now but they tried to get it with a magnetic rod, couldn't and gave up!

would it block the oil from going around?

my oil light isn't on!

stuart collins

iTrader: (7)

take the sump off

jayRS

if it were my car i would tell them its there fucking job to remove it!

if ya engine goes bang are they gunna pay for it.....

tell them to drop the sump and remove it, its there problem not yours

Anonymous

if it goes into the sump, it will "probably" be ok.

if it gets to the pump though, its fucking game over

Hrsturbo

oh! is there any way it would get to the oil filter?

gong to remove the sump and look for the little fucker

dojj

iTrader: (3)

who's going to remove the sump? hope it's the garage

i collected a running engine (obviously it wasn't running when i picked it up, i would never have been able to catch the fooker ) but someone had taken the plugs and coil packs off of the top
not a problem i thought, went to spin it round and it couldn't go
eventually, after a few days, i thought "fook it" and took it to bits
one of the bolts from the coil packs was stuck in the piston

seing as i needed to take the head off anyway as i had to do the head gasket, this wasn't as bad as it could have been, but i've got to pull the sump off now (with counterbalance shafts etc) to get the piston changed

if your engine is running with some sort of foriegn object in it, it's not going to last long when that object decides it's going to egt moving in the oil system

stonehavencossie

I would of refused to take the car back until the garage had sorted it.

As said already, its the garage's problem. Not yours

Are you driving it around ?

jayRS

get back down there, give them the spill that ya talked to trading standards if they kick up.

if you remove the sump, that sump gasket, oil, oil filter really you have to pay for then your time and haslle for there mistake.

sorry to say mate but your be a fool if you let them get away with this.

only good thing is they told ya about it but dont make it any better.

name and shame!

Hrsturbo

yeah been driving it as I thouht he garage wouldn't have let me go if it wasn't ok to maybe sit in the sump!!

GUZZLER

iTrader: (3)

i seen plenty of cvh's get a collet dropped down the oilway when people have been doing stem seals, most of them got left in the sump never seen 1 cause a problem!

Stu @ M Developments

iTrader: (12)

Easiest way to sort this is to get a VERY powerfull magnet on teh sump and catch it, dragging it to the oil drain hole. IF its in teh sump at all.

And yes, its 100% the tradesmans fault. He charged you to do a job, he has to finish it.

jayRS

course there let ya drive away they prob thought " fuck me we got away with that one"

get it back down there lad

Hrsturbo

well it was engine advantages in witham!

hope they learn something from this as I now have to take the sump off and hope it there!

jayRS

i wouldnt touch it well in saying that seeing as they done it in the first place i dunno if i would want to take iot back there but it is there fault and they have to sort it.

it wont get sucked into the oil pump so worse case it will sit in the sump, fact is its not ment to be there anyway.

what were they doing to drop it in there anyway?

Hrsturbo

adjusting my solid flowers which have now started ratteling again! it was a nut off the rocker arm

dojj

iTrader: (3)

call them, explain the situation, tell them you have been advised NOT to use the car due to this problem
explain to them that you need the car for your everyday life and the sooner they can remove the nut the sooner you can use the vehicle
also explain to them you need them to come and collect it and return it (note the mileage on the trip as well as the odometer down AND how much fuel you have in it before it goes away)

if you go there all hollerin and shouting you might get a different response than if you call them and tell them what has happened and suggest they rectify the problem

if they fob you off call the citezens advise and see what they asy, worst case is you go to court to recover the costs, but thats a LONG LONG way down the road

any decent garage will sort it out and bollock the guy who dropped the nut in there in the first palce and it all ends happily ever after

jayRS

so they didnt even do that right

so for what little it cost and i would of though Ł30 for hours labor tops its now gunna cost ya oil, oil filter and a sump gasket thats, what Ł20 for gasket, Ł5-Ł10 for filter Ł20 plus for oil then ya time.... mate come on, take it back and get them to fix there error

jayRS

just a thought, if you can drop the sump etc why couldnt ya adjust the lifters?

Hrsturbo

it was Ł50 an hour and was there 7 hours but charged me for 3 cause of messing around and they did it twice and it rattledand third time was ok!

jayRS

what the fuck they charged ya Ł150 to adjust lifters and throw a nut down the oil way

bet ya walking funny now mate

i wouldnt even be replying on here as i would be stood waiting for my sump to be put back on but THEM by now

and a refund for the trouble

Hrsturbo

"just a thought, if you can drop the sump etc why couldnt ya adjust the lifters?"

I did but wanted it done properly as it was my first time fitting cam ect

jayRS

ah right, bet ya wish ya had done now.

if ya dont trust/want them to do it and sort it out i would at lease ask for my money back and do it my self, that way it covers cost of bits ya gunna need, and ya only gotta hope the sump gasket dont leak after

antony215

Take it back to them and get them to sort it a 13mm bolt aint a good thing to have going round your engine

Eagle

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bloody agree with that ..........

TIFF

You nasty fooker

pee vee

Would of thought a company with a reputation like Engine advantages
they would of done the job properly.

i'd be down there mate telling them how it is lol

jayRS

damn right

Fast Guy

That might explain a problem I had with a montego about 10years back. One oil pump failed and the dealer changed it. 6 weeks later the new pump failed. I stripped the pump to see why and there was an exhaust valve collet stuck between the gears. It had caused one of the gears to snap. It must have got through a hole in the pick up strainer at some point.

jayRS

thats why i always pull the collets off with a magnet tool

bud-weis

skinhead daisies or ?...........

jayRS

didnt even notic that