Im an Idiot - Dropped bolt into engine casing!

[Sir-Doris]

Hello all.

Any help appreciated with this. I was swapping my manual cam chain tensioners from the old Storm to the new one and accidentally dropped a small bolt into the rear engine casing
It was on the cam chain side (RH), and its the central bolt that holds the cam chain guard in place. M6 I think and about 10mm/15mm long.

I fished about with a magnet but no joy so what im wondering is.... If I remove the sump or clutch cover do you think the bolt may be retrievable or will I have to strip down the entire engine? When it fell it clinked a couple of times then a muted clink like it had hit metal under oil so it may be in the sump perhaps? Iv never stripped a Storm engine down so not sure if it could fall all the way down or would it get trapped elsewhere.

Regards
Phil

[Kev L]

Someone did the same thing recently and found the offending bolt in the sump. Good luck.

[turbo_billy]

Hi Phil, take the sump cover off and with any luck you should find the bolt there. We had another forum member do the exact same thing about 3 weeks ago. And yes, the bolt can and will find its way through the engine. Let us know how you get on.

[darkember]

LOL people never learn to stuff rags down the tunnels prior to any work within that area.

As said before it will probably be down in the sump

[Jscobey]

Good luck! When I changed my CCTs I sheared off one of the valve cover bolts. Quite a pain trying to retrieve the broken off threads. Luckily I had a spare valve cover bolt once I retrieved the piece.

[Sir-Doris]

Thanks folks, thats exactly the answer I was looking for

RE: Stuffing rags in, im not normally so careless but there was a rag stuffed into the opening but typically the bolt found its way past and through the smallest gap. next time I think Il have to use a sturdier rag

When I changed my CCTs I sheared off one of the valve cover bolts.

Thankfully I have a mostly complete spare engine but dont relish the task of removing sheared studs/bolts.

[Sir-Doris]

Well. Finally got round to removing the sump. Bolt was sitting in the bottom as mentioned.

Probably did me a favour really as the sump had a fair bit of sludge in the bottom so cleaned that out as well as the oil pickup strainer.

So MOT on Tuesday, 2 new tires ordered.

Thanks for your help

[Kev L]

Result mate

[lloydie]

Result mate

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