Bendix bolt retrieval

[SAJ]

Trevor lost a bendix bolt on our South Island rally in Te Anau. I had read on Fordbarn varoius retrieval methods. All we had was an old vacuum cleaner and my syphon hose. It caught the bolt end-on so easily I could not believe it!
SAJ in NZ

 

[Mike Peters]

So you fed the siphon/vacuum hose through the starter opening and down into the flywheel housing to retrieve the bolt?

 

[whirnot]

Trevor needs to buy lottery tickets

 

[Chuck Sea/Tac]

Hadn’t thought of doing it that way!

 

[w.michael]

You carry a siphon hose?

W. Michael

 

[SAJ]

Yes it is a "jiggle valve" siphon so I can get my spare petrol from the 2 gallon can into the tank without spilling or scratching my paint.
And yes we just fed it down through the hole where the starter goes and it picked it up immediately. We could not find a tab washer though. Maybe that is why the bolt came loose.
SAJ in NZ

 

[Joe K]

You'll find the tab washer in a gob of grease attached to your starter pinion broken tooth where it got transferred by the flywheel ring gear.

Well, thats where I find my ANYTHING - or similar location/circumstance performed by equally happenstance occurrence.

There is a Murphy Corollary at work here somehow.

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-laws.html

Joe K