Hey guys

I had my intake manifold off of my 383 to replace the intake valley pan and gaskets and I somehow ended up dropping a tiny little lock washer (like for a #8 machine screw) in the valley and it fell past the camshaft and disappeared.

I thought of draining the oil pan and hoping that it would come out in that, but I'm sure that the windage tray would keep the washer out of the pan until the engine had been run.

Any thoughts on just leaving it in there? Its so tiny that I cant imagine it doing any harm... what harm do you think it could do in there? Can you tell that I just don't want to drop the pan?