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slowboatn

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I'm gonna make a long story short. I was flushing and lubing the motor in the ski. It is a 98 GTX limited with the 947. I was spraying lube (Seadoo lube) into the mag cylinder and the little red tube that comes with the spray can went right into the cylinder. What do I do about this? Is this a major issue or will it just melt and blow out the exhaust? Do I have to take it apart and get it out?
 
ohh i could think of a few ways to get this out.

first option

use some pipe cleaners to attempt to hook it and guide it back up to the plug hole. then slowly turn the engine over until you can grab it.

Maybe a little 3 finger graber

you could also pull the rave valve out for that piston might be able to reach in there and grab it.

if that didn't work pull the exhaust manifold off and see if you can fish it out.

last resort off with its head!
 
Yeah on another site (not anothersite.uk) I was told to try one of those things that Arnold used in that movie to get the thing out of his nose. LOL. Or get something flat and put something sticky on the end and put it in there to find it. I did remove the RAVE valve and look inside. I couldn't see it. I really don't want to pull the cover off of the head. Looks like it is done for the year. Lot of work to do on it now. Man!
 
Not a head shop.

Academy, walmart, or a medical supply sells various hemostats.

Those things at head shops are called "roach clips", even if they look just like, and are made by the same company, as hemostats :reddevil:

Long thin screwdriver or straightened coat hangerwith contact cement dabbed on the end, then carefully fish it out.:confused:

Hopefully it isn't so greasy that adhesive would slip off.

All those other suggestions are fine, too.

I hate when stupid little things like this happen.

Last weekend, I was putting a new transmission into my Maverick by myself. Got it all lined up and bolted up, and found that my tach wire and the vacuum line to the modulator were both pinched at the top between the bellhousing and the engine block :ack: OFF SHE COMES so I can get those two measly items out...
 
yup...just repaired a 93'gts, had carb back together, intake..etc all bolted up, just to look in the foot rail and saw the o-ring for the rv cover...:svengo:
 
I'm gonna try a vaccum cleaner also. LOL. I've got to get it out of there. Is there any possibility that it can get past the piston? Or somewhere else? I'm scared now. I would really hate to have to pull the motor.
 
Vacuum cleaner might work. Duct tape a piece of fuel line into the end and seal it up, then stick the fuel line into the spark plug hole. Maybe 5/16" fuel line or 1/4" would fit in there just fine.
 
I haven't gotten around to it yet. I will the next few days. Or this weekend. I won't be busy then. Just home with the wife after her surgery. YAY!
 
Here is the tube after I pulled the top plate off of the head. I found it inside the exhaust port. It tried to make it out of the exhaust.
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This is the actual size of the tube. Nothing was broken off of it. The way it got smashed somehow is why it looks like that. Maybe the kids hit the start/stop button when I wasn't home. I pulled the battery so that can't happen. I don't know. I had to pull the head top plate to get it out. Found it in the exhaust chamber. Lucky me?
 
You know, it may have just melted or got chopped up and gone through the exhaust system if you had just started it up. But getting it out is the safe thing to do.

I did a cam swap on my Maverick several years ago (my first swap) and I stuffed paper towels into each of the ports on the heads. Did my swap, and flat tappet cam, so it has to start pretty much immediately and run for 20 minutes at various rpms to break in correctly, otherwise it could eat cam lobes off.

Anyway, it started right up, but these puff-balls of fire came shooting out the exhaust and little flaming balls were flying all over the neighborhood. Took me just a second to recognize what they were. They just became "fuel" for the engine for the first couple seconds of it running.

Kind of a funny "aside" story. I have heard guys do the same thing losing a nut in the intake, and having it luckily come out the exhaust without damaging the engine.

I wouldn't try that...:hat:
 
I wouldn't either. That would probably look cool though. Those little flaming puff balls! I would have loved to see that!
 
scooper77515 said:
Not a head shop.

Academy, walmart, or a medical supply sells various hemostats.

Those things at head shops are called "roach clips", even if they look just like, and are made by the same company, as hemostats :reddevil:

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:lols::lols: best laugh ive had all day!
 
So the Moral of the story is, Hold on to the straw tube when fogging the cylinders.Glad you recovered it slowboatn
 
the best way to fog the cylinders is to do it while it's running through the carbs.

I removed one spray tube that made it through the intake and was down in the crank, the cylinder had to come off.

Although, I don't think leaving that plastic straw in there would do any damage, probably just melt and get blown out the exhaust.
 
My manual says to spray through the carbs and to pull each spark plug and spray lube down into each cylinder. I think that is to keep it from rusting. I do it religiously. Especially before winter, during winter, and after winter. Summer months I do it when we take it out and bring it back.
I will be holding the tube now. I won't let that happen again. It could have been expensive.
 
I do it both ways. Sprayed into intake for a few secs or until it dies, the 15 seconds sprayed into each cylinder and turned over a couple revs by hand with plugs out to coat tbe full length of the cylinders. Then plug it back up for the winter. Or any other long period of storage.
 
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