Help... Dropped a wrench in the oil pan. 98 Z
#1
On The Tree
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Central, FL
Posts: 181
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Ok so I was changing my oil pump on the LS1 camaro and I dropped the 10mm wrench in the oil pan when I was tightening the pickup tube bolt
Any suggestions on how the F to get it out. I've tryed playing around with magnets but it's not happening. How do I take off the oil pan on these cars? Lift the motor? K member? wth I'm a little confused by the ls1's tactics.
Any suggestions on how the F to get it out. I've tryed playing around with magnets but it's not happening. How do I take off the oil pan on these cars? Lift the motor? K member? wth I'm a little confused by the ls1's tactics.
![Icon Lol](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies2/icon_lol.gif)
#4
12 Second Club
iTrader: (2)
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Roy, Utah
Posts: 242
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/ranks/ls1tech10year.png)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Try and get a flex magnet and fish around, that would by far be faster than any alternative. You could remove the K member or lift the motor, but it'll be faster to fish it out. Try a mirror and flashlight to look down in it.
#7
Closed Sponsor Account
iTrader: (32)
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: South Florida
Posts: 386
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Try a magnet....a flex one to fish around with and perhaps one to use on the outside of the pan which may help you drag the wrech up the side of the pan, allowing you to snag it with pliers, magnet, or fingers....
Good luck.
PS, it really isn't the end of the world, you could have dropped a lifter lolol...
Erik
Good luck.
PS, it really isn't the end of the world, you could have dropped a lifter lolol...
Erik
Trending Topics
#10
TECH Addict
iTrader: (19)
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Owings, Md
Posts: 2,157
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/ranks/ls1tech10year.png)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
They have some heavy duty pen magnets, try that. to get a wrench out youre gonna have to lift the engine to get the pan down enough.
good job being different and dropping the wrench instead of the bolt, lol
good job being different and dropping the wrench instead of the bolt, lol
#11
On The Tree
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Central, FL
Posts: 181
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Thanks guys I've already tryed everything thats been suggested, no luck.
I guess I'm going to have to pull the motor? Can I just lift it up a few inches to get the oil pan off or what? Any sites with directions?
Thanks in advance
I guess I'm going to have to pull the motor? Can I just lift it up a few inches to get the oil pan off or what? Any sites with directions?
Thanks in advance
#12
11 Second Club
iTrader: (32)
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Southaven, MS (near Memphis, TN)
Posts: 3,701
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
![](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/ranks/ls1tech10year.png)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Well, now that you have to lift the engine a little bit to drop the oil pan, might as well do a motor swap.
Or if you are pulling the Kmember time to install a tubular!
Or if you are pulling the Kmember time to install a tubular!
#14
TECH Fanatic
iTrader: (19)
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Doylestown, PA
Posts: 1,072
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/ranks/ls1tech10year.png)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Interesting story, when I had my mustang me and my friend were putting the engine back in after it had been built. My friend was chaining the hoist down and a washer slipped out of his hand and down through the intake port and into the cylinder. Eventually we took two zip ties and tied them together and put a magnet on the end of it, worked but it took a while. Good luck!
#16
TECH Regular
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Maryville,Tn
Posts: 453
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
If you can see the box end of the wrench , try to use a coathanger or a thin piece of wire. Bend it into a hook and try to carefully fish it out. I have used this method to grab wrenches that have fell down into small tight spots woth great success. hope you can resolve it without removing the oil pan!
#17
On The Tree
iTrader: (5)
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SLO/Chino Hills, CA
Posts: 177
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
![](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/ranks/ls1tech10year.png)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
how are you trying to get at the wrench? are you able to be at the same level as the pan? try this, plus get a good flashlight so you can see into the pan. Dont get discouraged I dropped one of the oil pump bolts in the pan and I was pisses but after getting a bendable mirror, flashlight and a flexible 3lb magnet I got to it real easy
#19
TECH Addict
iTrader: (13)
![Default](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/icons/icon1.gif)
Many years ago I was helping a friend do a cam swap in his IROC and he dropped a keyway into the oil pan. We tried for hours to find it with no luck. About a year later we pulled the motor and found the keyway in the bottom of the oil pan. Good luck, I remember how aggravating it was when we could not find that keyway.