My original post can be found here:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....hreadid=227749


To make a long and painfull story very short, a piece of soft rubber fell into engine cylinder via the middle spark plug port on the rear head. Im going to keep trying to pull it out but I dont want to take any risk of scratching the cylinder wall. Any ideas how to get it out?

If I cant get fish it out of there, is ok to start my engine and just burn it out? What the worst that could happen?

 

Hm, I have an idea... I dont really know exactly how big of an opening it is that you are working with but maybe get a powerful wet/dry vac with a relativly small attachment and suck the piece of rubber out.

 

Depends how big, and what kind of rubber. Rubber as dense as a soft vacuum line may jam the exhaust port open - and that would suck Butters'
Chinballs.

Itīs gonna be aeasier to remove from the max cylinder than it would be on a 2V head, and Iīd prolly be trying to get hold of a flexible pickup tool that uses the syringe-type lunger and the little 4-fingered claw. It may be easier to rotate that cylinder to the bottom of itīs stroke in case itīs at one side of the cylinder where the tool wouldnīt flex to.

I personally would remove it before starting the engine again.

My father used to have special inspection tools that consisted of a long thin metal tube and had an eyepiece at one end - one of them had a lens at the other end that pointed straight, the other had a 90deg bend. He was a jet engine technician back in the 70īs and used these to inspect the jets internals. Iīve never been able to find these ever again - but they would be perfect in this case. Anyone know what Iīm talking about or where to get them?