Misc junk in your engine.

[suprarich]

I want to hear what some of the items people have found in or on their motor during a tear down.

I will start.

I just tore down a 7m to do a full turbo upgrade. I found a 10mm wrench under the 3000 pipe. A 8mm socket between the exhaust manifold and the block. A pencile near the motor mount. 2 nickels and a penny under the coils, and skeleton of a dead mouse under a heat cover.

 

[tissimo]

i found a rod on my sub frame on my 91 when i first bought it

 

[TurboWarrior]

LOL @ dead mouse

a couple of sockets caught in the engine frame thats about it

 

[Poodles]

nothing here...

bunch of dead leaves is about it...

 

[steven89]

I've found random wires, dead leaves, caked oil. And thats about it.

 

[Doward]

Lots of caked oil, and a 22mm craftsman wrench.

 

[Keros]

Lots of caked oil, and a 22mm craftsman wrench.

lol, a wrench? That's no small wrench to just forget about, let alone lose :biglaugh:

 

[iwannadie]

lol, a wrench? That's no small wrench to just forget about, let alone lose :biglaugh:

Maybe it was a load bearing wrench left there on purpose.

 

[steveyblack]

not my car but one at my school's shop, the kid had his exhaust held together by c-clamps

 

[starscream5000]

C-clamps you say? That's precious :biglaugh:

 

[suprarich]

I have also found lots of misc nuts and bolts in the past, a razor blade or two, pack of matches, bread bag twisties that someone used to hold their throttle linkage on with.

 

[Quin]

Aborted fetus

 

[MDCmotorsports]

Ive found sockets, keys, wrenches, screw drivers, small flash lights, business cards, bank receipts, coins, lighters, mice skeletons, and the most interesting of all....

Had an old NA engine I tore down around 2000/2001.

When I pulled the pan, it was full of flying cockroaches, all dead thankfully.

 

[annoyingrob]

not my car but one at my school's shop, the kid had his exhaust held together by c-clamps

My friend has his thermostat housing on his 5M held together with c-clamps!

 

[Loki]

i found a rod on my sub frame on my 91 when i first bought it

I found one on my '89 once.

 

[suprarich]

Ive found sockets, keys, wrenches, screw drivers, small flash lights, business cards, bank receipts, coins, lighters, mice skeletons, and the most interesting of all....

Had an old NA engine I tore down around 2000/2001.

When I pulled the pan, it was full of flying cockroaches, all dead thankfully.

Cockroaches - that is priceless, I though they could live through anything?

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

^ Probably died of boredom from lack of boost... ?

I found one of those mini-bikini girl calenders... Someone top THAT.

 

[Quin]

^ Probably died of boredom from lack of boost... ?

I found one of those mini-bikini girl calenders... Someone top THAT.

Aborted fetus.

KTHXBYE

 

[GrimJack]

Another vote for the dead skeleton crew. There was an entire family of squirrels or rats living (well, dying, actually) in my spark plug valley. Only the skeletons were left, completely saturated in oil.

 

[mkiiSupraMan18]

My brother bought a Mustang once that he seen on the side of the road and just wanted it for some misc BS stuff he said it had a bit of an 'odor' to it, nothing major.

Gets it home, pops the hatch... whole litter of dead kittens literally stuck to the hatch carpet. He had to pull the 'gunk' off w/ pliers. He got the car running and sold it for $600 after he stripped the interior and bleached EVERYTHING, plus he got the parts he needed.