really messed up! need help asap please!!
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really messed up! need help asap please!!
hey guys im new to the forum, i just got my new 2013 road glide and i was taking all the chrome off the bike to get it powder coated, and i took the chrome cover off the transmission. then i has to take the exhaust off to get to a side cover and one of the nuts from the header fell into the transmission where the cover was off!! so i took the clutch cover/primary cover off and clutch out but there still isnt any access to see or get the nut out. what would be the easiest way to get access into the transmission without having to tear it all apart? i feel like an idiot! i should have known better to cover the hole!!!!
thanks a lot in advance guys!
thanks a lot in advance guys!
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I'm having a hard time painting the picture, but I've done **** like that.....intake manifold bolts into a head are my experience. What worked for me is I have a particular $2.00 Pep Boys screw driver that has interchangeable tips. Im not hip on cheapo tools, but the thing about this screwdriver is the magnet in the end extends out like an antenna and can get the magnetic tip into the smallest of places. This stupid cheapo little screw driver has saved my *** MORE than once!! Try getting some kind of magnet down in there, even if you cant see in there. You're fishing blindly, but you may end up catching what youre looking for! Good luck!! 
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I'm having a hard time painting the picture, but I've done **** like that.....intake manifold bolts into a head are my experience. What worked for me is I have a particular $2.00 Pep Boys screw driver that has interchangeable tips. Im not hip on cheapo tools, but the thing about this screwdriver is the magnet in the end extends out like an antenna and can get the magnetic tip into the smallest of places. This stupid cheapo little screw driver has saved my *** MORE than once!! Try getting some kind of magnet down in there, even if you cant see in there. You're fishing blindly, but you may end up catching what youre looking for! Good luck!!
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definitely getting a small extendable bendy magnet tomorrow. it couldnt have gone far! probably right to the bottom of the oil pan...which you cant take off without pulling the motor...
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I did something like this with a dirtbike. I could not see it at all but I basically tipped the bike on the side that have me the best access to get something out, the nut slid to that side and the magnet fished it right out. Lucky. I would also suggest looking very carefully and not moving anything as the part might be right in veiw and easy to get, is you move it or spin gears it may move to a place yo sure do not want it to go.
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Think positive......you'll get that little bitch!! LOL!!!
