Dropped wrist pin into crankcase??..

[roeme]

Pan gasket can be reused in a pinch, no?

But...looking at the exploded view drawing of the engine; it looks a bit complicated (if possible at all?) to shake/roll/fumble the pin from #4's bottom over and into the pan? It looks it could be stuck (sludge, as previous poster commented) to or around a crankshaft bearing wall (not sure how to call it).

I have yet to go into an engine that deep and have no idea about the size of the wrist pin or how it all looks in reality, so I could be completely off.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

I should look into that more.

Is it related to that obvious bolt head?

(See better in other pic)

That seems to be fairly accessable. Yah, since ordering a pan gasket, I could look into that shift spring.

I think that big bolt cap is the access to the detente pin and spring.
Parts 19 thru 22 on the gif I posted.

PS: Probably the wrist pin is sitting on a ledge near the last place you saw it.
Best 'O luck tweaking it out, kinda like an arcade game.

 

[Baatfam]

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[Redman]

Thanks Bill.
THanks Bob.
Thanks Roe.

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Quick update: found it. Retrieved it.

so, that was a days delay, of the two days I had to work on this.
and now have more to do (reinstall pan, reassemble exhaust).

more later.

now, let’s see , where was I…….

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Ata boy Dave.

 

[alke46]

Thanks.

Quick update: found it. Retrieved it.

so, that was a days delay, of the two days I had to work on this.
and now have more to do (reinstall pan, reassemble exhaust).

more later.

now, let’s see , where was I…….

So that's it? Not going to tell us how and where you found it or how you removed it?

 

[Redman]

So that's it? Not going to tell us how and where you found it or how you removed it?

Ahh, Larr, you should know me better than that.

Yah, I am gonna yack at y'all with a long story and pictures.
(just wanted to make some reassembly progress first....)

 

[Redman]

. . . . . . . tell us how . . . . .

Went to home depot and found a magnet on a probe. But no mirrors.

Went to adavanced auto and got an arsenal of mechanics inspection mirrors and grabber-reachers.
Didnt get the 1 1/2 x 3 inch mirror, that seemed too big.
But got the 2" round one,
and I had a 1" round one (that I thought would be too small).

. . . . . . . tell us how and where you found it . . . . .

Using this third eye

Actaully that mirror (2") was too big to maneuver around, down in there, in some places, so also used a smaller one (1", not shown).
Took a lot of fussing around to get mirror and light and eyeball in a position to see in a particular direction, then to look in next direction took some more fussing around.....

Looked around in the bottom of #4 (where was last seen) and #3 (where I thought it rolled to, and didnt roll back when tipped bike/engine). Took quick look in #2 and #1. Tryed looking up and around from underneath with pan removed with out much success.

THen turned crank 180 so that throw/con-rod moved from front to back (or back to front), and then I looked around in those other areas with mirror & light.

ANd saw it down in #4 up against the outside wall. WHich surprized me cuz, originally I saw it roll from 4 to 3, and didnt get it to roll back that I could see.
I dont know why I didnt see it first time I looked in that direction in #4. Is kinda hard to tell what are looking at.
And, I had been convinced I last saw it roll from 4 to 3 and not come back to 4, so thought it would be down in the deeper part under #3.

With a little manipulation with a reacher-grabber (not shown) I got it to move a little bit (see pic) to where could get with magnetic probe and pull it up and out.

 

[Redman]

So, now back to the project thread.


https://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?258583-1100G-low-compression-burns-oil

 

[Nessism]

Great job!

$hit happens, it's how we deal with it that matters.

 

[Redman]

Great job!

$hit happens, it's how we deal with it that matters.

Well, There was a few minutes there (maybe more), where I was thinking my beloved bike, that I will have until I dont have strength to hold up a 600lb bike any longer, has become unusable to me, and if someone had been here with a trailer, I would have helped them load it and all the part up, and signed over the title.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

I was there too Dave. If my story can be any inspiration, it’s the last link in my signature. Keep it up!

 

[Buffalo Bill]

It's enough to make a man superstitious about mean little spirits tripping up our progress.