Sully

not cool...

I know, right. I didn't realize that piece came off the plug until it was too late.

roll the motor over by hand, till the piston is all the way down. take a pencil magnet and run it down in there till you get it (should be laying in the lower part of the piston) but do not try and start it to blow it out.

I'm going to order this today:

http://www.unbeatablesale.com/wtd7901.html?utm_source=froogle4&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=WTD7901

Hopefully that will get it. If this doesn't work, the truck will either be going over a cliff or towed to you.

Here's the kicker. Going back to the reason this began. I've checked vacuum lines. Plugs are good. You replaced the fuel filter (and plugs) just a few months ago. What's left? The PCV valve, right? Well, guess what. You can't remove it from the valve cover. The valve cover has to be removed to check the PCV valve.

Yeah, the terminal nut fell back down into the same spark plug hole that the plug came out of. It's on the passenger side, 3rd hole back.

This is an 04 F150 with the 5.4.

If you're struggling to do this, why not just leave the car stock? My vote would be to keep it clean and stock , stay up on maint and profit in the long run.

This.

Does anyone have one of these I could borrow tomorrow? It would need to be able to fit in a spark plug hole. Let me know.

Thanks,

Mike

Got a magnetic pickup tool, but it's too big to fit in the spark plug hole.

Anyone have a thin magnetic pickup tool?

My truck developed a miss. I checked vacuum lines, connections, air filter, etc. Now I'm checking plugs. I'm down to the 2nd to last plug. I pull the coil pack thing off and loosen the plug. I have to use one of those long reacher grabber things to pull the plug out. I was stupidly twisting the grabber thing counter-clockwise as I was trying to remove the plug. Evidently, I twisted the thing off the top of the plug and didn't realize it. I went to put the grabber thing back on the plug and caught a glimps of something come off the grabber. I didn't think anything about it at the time. I thought it was a figment of my imagination. I go ahead and pull the plug. That's when I realize what happened. I am almost positive that the top thing off the plug fell into the passenger side valve cover. I can't find it anywhere.

Is the valve cover going to have to come off? Do you think it could have possibly fell all the way down into the pan? What should I do?

Thanks,

Mike

does the dent popper work?

Not really for tiny dents, but larger dents it does.

what is the weather like?

I'm in Dallas. It's nice here.

I am sorry, but I think he deserves a nomination for the Darwin awards...LOL

He should be in the top 5 when the list is released.

ticks are really bad this year... at least once a week I'm pulling them off of my dogs... I just invested in tick killer to spray on my lawn, but 3.5 acres is alot of money to spray all down with tick killer

The collars or flea/tick meds for the dogs would be cheaper.

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