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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by craby
get a factory service manual but a chiltons will work in a pinch. take pictures before you start and label everything you can so you know where it goes.
I love the factory manual but for a new guy the Haynes\Chilton manuals might be easier.

There is not I can think of that the wing nut could make noise in the intake it is at lease in the head and interfering with an intake valve. If you are lucky.
 
Old Jan 5, 2012 | 09:43 PM
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ok thanks everybody ill write and tell you all how it go tomarow
 
Old Jan 5, 2012 | 09:46 PM
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Good luck heres to hopin its not too bad
 
Old Jan 5, 2012 | 10:14 PM
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If your engine doesn't have a lot of miles on it, you might want to find which side the wing nut dumped into so you don't have to remove both heads. However if the engine has some miles on it, might as well remove both heads and get them reworked (with any kind of luck, that's all you'll need). If the wing nut did get sucked into a cylinder, it may have left a shiny spot or mark on one of the valves or intake runners.
Murphy's Law; whichever head you start with, the wing nut will be on the opposite side.
 
Old Jan 5, 2012 | 10:51 PM
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Or.....scope it out: Mini USB Borescope
 
Old Jan 6, 2012 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by camaro86monster2506
ok i have a 86 camaro it have a 350 in it i has took off my air filter and dropped the wing bolt in the carb so i left it in for a couple of days forgot it was in there and i started the car for about 10 sec.. and my engine was making a scratching noise .. please some one help what can i do to get this bolt
You arent going to retrieve the bolt. You sucked it into one of your intake runners. From there it got mangled by a intake valve and smashed up by a piston. You have 2 choices.

1) Run it, change the oil a ****load of times and hope the debris eventually gets ground up and spit out...you will either get away with it or experience catastrophic, engine shattering failure....

2) Tear the motor apart, find what left of the nut and rebuild the engine.

Sorry bub....this is going to be a very costly, time consuming mistake. I only sound like an A-hole because I dropped a 3/8 bolt down my distributor hole 2 years ago. BUT...I never started the engine. It took me 2 weeks of fishing and a snap on camera to retrieve it....but then again, it never got sucked in, nor was the engine ever run.

Good luck man.
 
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