Need help! Dropped oil pump pickup bolt
When you go back tie some fishing line or a wire around it (not tight because you want to be able to remove it after you get the bolt started).
Saved my *** a couple of times.
Saved my *** a couple of times.
Get some kind of magnet and get the bolt out. Use a ratchet wrench to reinstall. It will hold the bolt and you don't have to pull the wrench off to get more throw on the bolt.
Jon
Jon
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When you get it out of the pan, make sure you tie a wire or something around it to make it easier and keep it in place. I used a metal coat hanger that I wrapped around the bolt and got it in there very quickly.
Staging Lane
Joined: Jan 2010
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From: des moines, iowa
i had this same dilemma, i have no idea how we ever got it back in. i used dental floss to keep my bolt from falling, after the second magnet fish i decided we should try something different. it has to be thin like floss, thread, or fishing line, that way its not a hassle to work around and its easy to remove once you get the bolt started. it will take a good deal of cussing, and you might need to throw something. but hold your mouth just right and it will go in.
When I dropped the bolt in my car it fell all the way down to the lower part of the pan. What i did was got a strong magnet and worked it over the passenger side of the motor and then used a flex magnet and stuck it through the oil sensor??? i think thats what it was. This took me about a half hour.
