hello!
i was cleaning the threads for the cylinder studs with a q-tip, and the cotton from to q-tip fell of in the threads. tried to get it up but pushed it down instead. i think the hole leads to inside the crankcase. Does anyone have any idea of how i can get it up? it was the rear left hole for the front cylinder stud.
it is a 1998 evo

 

Maybe you got lucky and it fell onto the flywheel and is stuck on the flywheel. Any way to get a flashlight and maybe a small dental type mirror and start looking around. I would not rotate the crank without looking around in there first.

 

Donnie thinks vacuum, and a straw.... use the old lady's nylon in the vacuum hose to see what you catch. https://youtu.be/6ABBE39iHY0

 

Where's a good good coke ***** when you need one

 

Did it exit through the stud hole or is it still in the threaded passage? If it's in the passage you might be able to get it with a dental pick.

 

Problem with a coke ***** is she'd probably use the cotton to strain it in the spoon when she cooks it up to shoot it!

 

It did exit through the threads

 

Does i have to get it out? Or will the engine "eat" it up?
i cant get it out

 

If all it is is a small piece of cotton, just make sure it got through the small passage. Shove it the rest of the way through the passage to a larger area. Oil flow, gears and movement will eventually move it to the oil filter, and you`ll be okay.......... If you`re somehow mistaken about it dropping into a small hole, and it simply dropped onto the piston, it will just burn up along with the fuel mixture when the engine fires up.

 

im just scared that it will get stuck in a bearing or oil passages or something. Only idea i have now it to remove the engine from the fram and fill it with oil and hold it upside down so that mf comes out. At the same time it feels like in over thinking this..