Wow. I am SCREWED! Something fell into the motor!
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Damn, Matt: this is horrible news.
I would definitely take the advice of the guys here and manually spin the crank with a flash light looking down the spark plug bay. You should be able to see/hear something as a result of this to narrow your search.
If it is on top of the piston and it is metal, a magnet might be able to get it through the park plug bay. Most likely, I would imagine that you will be pulling the head. As much of a pain in the *** as pulling the head is on our cars, you definitely want to know which bank the object is located.
Good luck.
I would definitely take the advice of the guys here and manually spin the crank with a flash light looking down the spark plug bay. You should be able to see/hear something as a result of this to narrow your search.
If it is on top of the piston and it is metal, a magnet might be able to get it through the park plug bay. Most likely, I would imagine that you will be pulling the head. As much of a pain in the *** as pulling the head is on our cars, you definitely want to know which bank the object is located.
Good luck.
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Are you sure it's not something that has dropped down into the torque converter area and is rattling around inside the bellhousing?
Removing something from inside the motor is difficult on a 4 valve motor like the 1UZ.
Good luck Matt.
Matt.
Removing something from inside the motor is difficult on a 4 valve motor like the 1UZ.
Good luck Matt.
Matt.
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a friend of mine had a similar issue as yours. he brought his car to a mechanic. the mechanic had a snake video camera thing that he stuck in the motor to look around. he found a washer on one of the cylinders. he then removed the spark plug and used a magnet to get it out.
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while shimming the valves on a 4AG a while ago i had a shim fall into the motor. i got it out by manually rotating the motor and a magnet. it was a biatch but i got it done. i was nervous but it works well.
try that first and then decide whether to pull the heads or not.
if i could get a shim out of a 4AG then you can get it out of your 1UZ
try that first and then decide whether to pull the heads or not.
if i could get a shim out of a 4AG then you can get it out of your 1UZ
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