It's official, I am the biggest idiot on SM. Help with cooling passage blockage

[Whasian]

My first thought was a good vacuum, but you might need to stab it to pieces first.

Whasian- you have a kirby?? Isn't that like a $1000,00 unit?

LOL, well I was somewhat of a husler...I sold kirby's for a while and I sold three and was given one.

Whasian

 

[3p141592654]

Do those foam plugs dissolve in gas? Might want to explore that before you get too wild with the solvents. Shop vac to the drain plug sounds like the best plan to start with.

 

[Junior]

actually I had considered dissolving it on purpose, and washing it out.

if you have another ear plug like that, drop it in gas for a night and see if it dissolves or no. if it does, then just wash the stupid thing down into the oil pan with more gasoline, and let it sit a day, then drain it out.

 

[dugums]

Ok, vacuum doesn't work. I even fashioned a nice attachment out straws. The vac actually started picking up oil, so the attachment worked well.

That passage goes pretty much straight down, so I don't think there is any chance of picking it up from the top.

I have one of the other earplugs sitting in gasoline, so I'll check to see if it dissolves by tomorrow. While I'm waiting for that, my next course of action is to drain the oil and to try and flush the plug out of the bottom.

I'm thinking that I should fill the block to the brim with oil, so I can get some force behind the plug. Thoughts?

 

[suprahooked]

Ok, vacuum doesn't work. I even fashioned a nice attachment out straws. The vac actually started picking up oil, so the attachment worked well.

That passage goes pretty much straight down, so I don't think there is any chance of picking it up from the top.

I have one of the other earplugs sitting in gasoline, so I'll check to see if it dissolves by tomorrow. While I'm waiting for that, my next course of action is to drain the oil and to try and flush the plug out of the bottom.

I'm thinking that I should fill the block to the brim with oil, so I can get some force behind the plug. Thoughts?

If it get to the oil pan it will just float so filling to the brim is a waste of time. I would drain the oil then pour diesel fuel in the hole to flush it to the drain plug then carefully try to grab it with needle nose pliers, if it moves away from the drain then flush and try again until you get it. But the plug would have to be in the oil pan for this plan to work. You might have to put the drain plug in between filling it with fuel

 

[Jaguar_5]

Hoist the engine up (you can use the 2x4's across the strut towers trick if you don't have a cherry picker), drop the subframe, drop the oil pan.

Thats how I would do it

 

[threedguru]

My first thought was a good vacuum, but you might need to stab it to pieces first.

Whasian- you have a kirby?? Isn't that like a $1000,00 unit?

nah kirbys are cheap these days

 

[suprahooked]

Hoist the engine up (you can use the 2x4's across the strut towers trick if you don't have a cherry picker), drop the subframe, drop the oil pan.

Thats how I would do it

Do what he ^^^^^^^^^^ said that is the very best way.

 

[AF1JZ]

Hoist the engine up (you can use the 2x4's across the strut towers trick if you don't have a cherry picker), drop the subframe, drop the oil pan.

Thats how I would do it

Bahaha. I remember that thread...something title in the lines of "Redneck engine hoist".

 

[Nick M]

Acknowledging a short coming, is a sure sign of not being an idiot. Everybody screws up.