plastic straw in cylinder
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09/29/12 10:44 AM
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I was spraying lube into small block cylinder for winterization and the little plastic straw fell off and into cylinder. Gonna be tough to fish out. Im thinking it would vaporize and get blown out of there on re-starting.
Anyone have thoughts on this?
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: mopartial]
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09/29/12 12:41 PM
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Don't start it!!! It will not vaporize instantly!!! It could hang a valve open a little bit and bend it when the piston comes up!!!
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
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09/29/12 01:27 PM
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Ugh! I should have quit after fogging thru carb. This is in a bilge and hard to reach which is why it happened in the first place...this is not gonna be fun.
Anyway thanks for replies...
If it aint broke, dont break it.
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: mopartial]
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09/29/12 02:59 PM
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I had that happen once & I ran it no problem. could duct tape the end of your shop vac down to a piece of vac line of the appropriate diameter & see if you could fish it out
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: CrazyD]
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09/29/12 04:19 PM
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You may get another straw just like it and see if brake clean or lacquer thinner or something like that will melt it. If so, you can then spray some of it in the cylinder to at least partially melt it and then run it to do away with the rest of it.
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: bobs66440]
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09/29/12 04:32 PM
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Oh for pete's sake.
I once dropped a check ball from my carb down the plenum.
I said nuts to it and ran the 318, no problems and it's been over 10 years now.
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
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09/29/12 05:37 PM
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: rth]
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09/29/12 06:09 PM
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The magic fingers gripper tool might do the job.
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: bonefish]
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09/29/12 11:44 PM
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That little straw is not going to hurt the engine. Even if it does get hung up in a valve if your valve springs aren't strong enough to crush that little tube of plastic you've got other problems. Start that sucker and let it melt away!
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
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09/30/12 08:14 AM
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Quote:
Oh for pete's sake.
I once dropped a check ball from my carb down the plenum.
I said nuts to it and ran the 318, no problems and it's been over 10 years now.
You're making that up, aren't you.
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Re: plastic straw in cylinder
[Re: scratchnfotraction]
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09/30/12 11:26 AM
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I've had a few valve seals make the journey to the bottom of the pan...No harm done. [image] [/image]
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