Hey all,
I have a 96 Sierra k1500, 5.7. So I was sitting in my engine compartment cleaning the valley and heads for an intake manifold gasket job. This could only have happened in a movie, man. Behind me, on my bench, was a dirty blue shop paper towel that I'd already used and was partially torn up. A small gust of wind blew and I saw out of the corner of my eye, this tiny dime sized piece of paper towel float by my head and directly into the hole in the valley, at the back drivers side across from the distributor hole.
I mean, it was nothing but net; almost as if it had been vacuumed into the hole. I saw it in there so I took some wire and wrapped some tape around it. I managed to bring it up to the hole and it of course fell again, but vanished this time.
Ultimately, I drained the oil and dumped 2 quarts of oil down that hole. I'm not entirely sure if it came out, but I was wondering what you guys thought of this. It's so small that I'm thinking I could just let it be, but damn it it bothers me so much that it may still be in there and I can't verify it unless I take the oil pan off.
I have a 96 Sierra k1500, 5.7. So I was sitting in my engine compartment cleaning the valley and heads for an intake manifold gasket job. This could only have happened in a movie, man. Behind me, on my bench, was a dirty blue shop paper towel that I'd already used and was partially torn up. A small gust of wind blew and I saw out of the corner of my eye, this tiny dime sized piece of paper towel float by my head and directly into the hole in the valley, at the back drivers side across from the distributor hole.
I mean, it was nothing but net; almost as if it had been vacuumed into the hole. I saw it in there so I took some wire and wrapped some tape around it. I managed to bring it up to the hole and it of course fell again, but vanished this time.
Ultimately, I drained the oil and dumped 2 quarts of oil down that hole. I'm not entirely sure if it came out, but I was wondering what you guys thought of this. It's so small that I'm thinking I could just let it be, but damn it it bothers me so much that it may still be in there and I can't verify it unless I take the oil pan off.