Fishing lifter from oil pan

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Any ideas? Was putting my cam back in and accidentally bumped a lifter and it must have been loose enough that it and the dowel fell in the oil pan. It's the #5 exhaust lifter so they are at the back of the pan.
 
The only suggestion I have is a magnet and try to fish it through the gap at the front with the timing case off.
 
Reason number 1 to use hose clamps to hold them up.

Get a bendy magnet.
 
Tried the hose clamps. Couldn't get the suckers to work right so we went to the trusted wooden dowels. Next time they are all getting vice grips.
 
Remove the tappet cover it may help. I had a dowl pc shread off and i had to pull the pan to find it. If you have to remove the pan, remove the rubber mount on the tranny and jack up the engine with the front eye hook, loosten the engine mounts also.When i did my cam the fan was allready off so i diddnt have to do that.
 
I'm trying to find a cherry picker right now that I can borrow so I can drop the pan but I'm going to try and get a bendy magnet and drop the pan as far as I can now and try and fish it out. Will the lifter fit through the oil drain hole?
 
Oh, I was talking about the lifter though the hole.

Hell, why weld it up, 400hp trucks dont need oil.
 
roachie said:
Oh, I was talking about the lifter though the hole.

Hell, why weld it up, 400hp trucks dont need oil.
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And oil aint flamable last I checked. Or is it?:kick:



I like the idea of lifting the engine up and droppin the pan. Could you get it up far enough to get the pan out or you have to leave it in there?

Edit: Why not leave it down there? It aint fixin to suck up or hit anything, just put a strong magnet on the pan and it will work its way there. IF you dont wana get it out...
 
If you have a magnet with a gard you could pick it up through the lifter hole high enough to put a piece of pvc through it. Necessity is the mother of invention!

May the force be with you.

Zach
 
instead of all this crap with dowels and what not, cant we just hold the lifters up with magnets on strings or bars or something? seems like the best way to not getting pieces of wood in the motor, or having a zip tie or close pin or the taper on the dowel slip.
 
if you think that sucks, try using the dowels on the CR lifters, they have a very shallow "bowl" that the push rods sit in and that makes it a pain to try and keep the dowls pushed in
 
I do it the easy Way!!

I just blow the motor up so I can install the tappets while its on the table!!

LOL


Good luck Tyler!!:Cheer:
 
Hey Bgbidodge i had to remove my pan in the rain. Dont loose hope.And if you want to get crazy neodymium magnets are one of the strongest.If you opened the tappit cover this crazy idea might work.The dowl rods i used were old and crusty ,i have new ones now. I put 2 neo's under my harley to trigger the turn light they pick up all kinds of strange road funk.
 
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