Today while I tried to change my injectors. I accident dropped a short 2 screws driver head in the cylinder block.
I tried to pull them out with my magnetic wand. and suddenly they went disappear in a left side hole near the glowplug.


Where is that hole links to? Oil drain to bottom to oil pan?
What do I need to do to get it out? I don't want to pull my engine out apart for those.
Please help...

 

That sucks... yeah that goes right back to the oil pan but there is a upper pan assembly that it could have got hung up on, I will take a look in the garage and see if I can give you a better idea of where it might have gone. Drain the oil and see if you get lucky, put a magnet is the oil stream to see if it comes out. You can get a strong shallow pot magnet and put it on the pan starting from the front and dragging it toward the rear. The oil pangasket is reusable so if need be you can drop the pan down however far it will move and use a flexible magnet to find it. Whtever you do don't be tempted to start it.

 

Ouch, that really sucks.

 

Those tools are a small screw driver head. Not much of option I could do now.

I was thinking of rotating a crankshaft manually by hands to see if that will shake down the tools to bottom of oil pan. Or should I give a crank without firing up the engine to see that will shake them down to the follow. But I am worry, what if the tools are caught in between the bottom of crankshafts

I guess I need to remove the oil pan out to search for those screws head.
How hard is to remove the oil pan out if you have transmission external filter installed? Do I have to remove those 6 engine mounted bolts off and slightly lift up the engine to get some working spaces?

 

OUCH!!!

 

good chance they'll wash right in to the pan.

 

Here is my curiosity of 6.0L 2004.5 engine. When the oil is pump up from the oil pan, does it have a filter screen at the bottom of oil pan to prevent a large particles sucked into the oil pump? and what does it look like!? I have never get a chance to see the bottom part of engine yet. I would like to see some pictures of them.

 

There is a screen but there is also a open section for when the oil is extremely cold and hard to flow so a larger piece could find its way to the pump under the right conditions, If I didn't find it I would have the whole bottom of pan covered with the strongest magnets I could find //////drop the pan

 

ya what bobdbigman says drop it is your really best bet, you can go and look for a strong *** magnet but dropping it will be the best bet in finding it and recovering it..

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better than destroying a 10,000 dollar engine..

 

well the plus side to destroying the 10,000 dollar engine is you can put a cummins in and have all your problems solved!!