Cam removal in an ERA/FE

lippy · #1 (**permalink**) 03-19-2016, 12:57 PM

My hope is to locate it better and then use a bent piece of stiff wire to knock it into the pan, where I think I can get it out. No oil in the engine yet.

patrickt · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2016, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by lippy

My hope is to locate it better and then use a bent piece of stiff wire to knock it into the pan, where I think I can get it out. No oil in the engine yet.

Is it small enough to come out the drain plug hole?

Bernica · #3 (**permalink**) 03-19-2016, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by patrickt

Is it small enough to come out the drain plug hole?

Now that would be quite a trick to guide it all the way there!

patrickt · #4 (**permalink**) 03-19-2016, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Bernica

Now that would be quite a trick to guide it all the way there!

Well if he could get it down in to the pan, and there's no oil in the pan, then he could jack the car way up in the air, tilting it backwards, then bang on the pan from below, it would make its way back there, then he could pull it out with needle nose pliers.

Bernica · #5 (**permalink**) 03-19-2016, 01:57 PM

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