I DROPPED IT IN THE CYLINDER

Just like riding a motorcycle, working on them comes with its own risks. Mistakes are inevitable. But your recovery or solution is what can really set you apart.
Or make something bad...much much worse.
SO..
What happens when a foreign object makes its way into a motorcycle cylinder? I would prefer to not find out!
Join me this week as I try to recover from my own mistake and retrieve what was dropped into this perfectly operational motorcycle engine.
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[@thanedavis1273]

I couldn't help but smile everytime you said cornner of the cylinder.

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

😂🤌🏻

[@Todd66]

This turned out to be a really good little video. Well done on the retrieval !!

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

Thanks!

[@AICD1999]

Spring cleaning with the MD!

[@motoalley]

Thats one of my biggest fears when working on my bike is having something fall down the cylinder holes, entertaining video for sure! I felt your frusteration

[@lordofbasement]

2:32 This would not have happened to you in normal work. It only happened because you wanted to show your viewers exactly everything. You only did it to make us feel like we were in the front row. Thanks for that cody!

[@rafaellastracom6411]

Giving new meaning to ´cylinder vacuum´. Great hack.

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

😅😅

[@brianmcquirk7428]

Holy crap Jody you just brought back an old memory of that feaskgo.

[@nickklaas4776]

Cody, thanks so much!!! I’ve got a chip of ceramic from a spark plug down there. Dropping the piston lower is genius!!! I’m at the top of the stroke and I can’t get my vac close enough. I’ll get it tomorrow with your XLNT trick!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@vermhot]

What a PITA that can be ! Glad you got that out !

[@IDYLBERRY]

In '76 a schooled MBZ mechanic and I were performing valve guide seal replacement on a 450SL when he dropped half a valve guide seal that landed on the timing chain. He almost had a heart attack. I got a large pair of hemostats, and he wrapped insulated wire around the hemostats. Next we connected a dry cell battery to the wire and created an electromagnet. My friend was able to pick the valve guide seal off the timing chain. If the seal had fell down, it would have gone into the oil pan.

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

Love the story!! That’s insane that it worked! I would think you would be magnetized to the timing chain too! Solid solution

[@IDYLBERRY]

@@TheMotorcycleMD Thanks Cody!. I appreciate your channel and the knowledge you pass on to us.

[@fernandobryan2990]

Although my problem was with a car the i am work, the concept is the same in get something out from the cylinder. Just wanted to take the time to thank you for that simple, but affective way to remove a broken piece of spark plug from my cylinder head. Your way was the only affective way to achieve success. Thanks for stopping the bleeding

[@dhjorgenson]

Good video. I know that feeling when all of a sudden you realize what just happened, and that your day has completely changed 😂

[@menom7]

Lol. AWESOME Video Cody!!! Reminds me of that arcade game where there's a bunch of stuffed toys at the bottom,and you have to use the electronic crane/arm/grabber to try and grab the stuffed toy your wanting!!! Lol. Excellent job in "cleaning" that cylinder out (literally!!!)

[@jamesp739]

Maybe a small blob of grease on the end of the wire? Blunt the tip so it doesn't scratch anyting? Or would the grease make more of a mess? You got the trash out and that's all that counts. Just curious, how long did it take to get that stuff out? Sometimes patience is the most important tool in the box. Good job, Cody!

[@brahmdempers1005]

if u can u can get me some of that patience stuff, ill be very gratefull. LOL!!!

[@dannygehrettjr3666]

Oh yeah! That feeling when you got that plug vacuumed out😂 Fun video. Exactly the kinda stuff I find myself in. 😅

[@njpaddler]

Fun-Tak or Blu-tack, and a length of hose or the camera cable, you'd have been done in a minute or less. Art supply or crafts store has it. I know it as an essential tool for years in the photo studio.

[@bobdunn4179]

Excelsior!

[@sierra2562]

what and learn, all your videos are awesome

[@deans178]

Thanks Cody! Coming off the heels of me thinking I ruined 1 of the 4 carb bodies on my '81 cb900c trying to unscrew the seconday jet & stripping the head! My next concern is do I subsrcibe for the monthly in-siders subscription to "MD" before or after I screw something else up...🤔🤔🤣

[@russperkins502]

Innovative thinking to the rescue

[@billbecher311]

Super interesting.

[@shawnmahmoudi8705]

very very useful trick man...... I am sure one day I have to do the same ... I will know what to do then :)

[@karlh4313]

Awesome 👍 job bro!!!!

[@catman1050]

Before I watch any further, shop vac with gas line on end Had to do it to a snowmoble engine, even though it could possibly go out exhaust.

[@johnvandenburgh8771]

Nice Borescope BTW, great picture

[@TheMarmaduke1975]

The suspense 😬

[@jberejik]

I did this. Take some tubing and duct tape it to a shop vac, feed it into the cylinder.

[@MotoMango]

The first time I dropped a bolt in the case when replacing the cam chain tensioner, I wanted to cry. It happens to all of us lol

[@genebierl2069]

I've done this with a bore scope I found it then I used a coat hanger tip with small cloth with some grease was able get everything

[@frostbitevinnie]

SUCCESS!😁

[@archeman2]

A good day at the Fishing Hole!

[@hwydog905]

My camera scope has been a very useful tool for this and other things . have had a few lessons learned too

[@flibbertigibbet6200]

Just did the same with a dail pin from the rocker cover, I believe it has fell down the spark plug hole 😢 just ordered a borescope so will take a look tomorrow, cannot believe how dumb I was. The little voice in my head said to check first and to even leave the plugs in by nope, followed the manual and removed the plugs first and bosh,now this and the pin is pretty much the same size as the plug hole so no idea how I am going to pull it back through.

[@yveslegrand9826]

Shit happens... I got my granddaughter dropping a nice mostly spherical stone in the exhaust... And it was though time to get it back. What would help a lot would be a nice clean and white paint inside every place...😂 I have no endoscope but an otoscope. Dead cheap, wifi and orientation is automatic. Bebird is the brand. Not flexible though...

[@johnvandenburgh8771]

If it is not magnetic you can choke a vacuum hose way down and vac it out!

[@aussiebloke609]

If #1 is on the exhaust stroke, #2 should be just behind it on the power stroke...I recall that Honda uses the 1-2-4-3 firing order (reverse the order of most 4 cylinder car engines.) PS: I can't make it out from the pics - is that a 750 or a 900-F?

[@rodger6940]

Can I manually open the valves by turning the crank case bolt?

[@randallissimo]

I was yelling VACUUM! right from the start. Seemed obvious to me.

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

It’s probably would have done the trick 😂 probably could have wrapped that hole thing up in 3 minutes lol

[@bobh721]

This is the first video I've ever watched that made me want to yell at the screen. Everyone with any experience has done a dumb dumb like this before. I sure have in my 50+ years turning wrenches professionally. But. The old saying "when you've already dug yourself a hole, put down the shovel" applies to you here. When you confirmed the junk wasn't in #1 the very first thing you should have done is cover the hole - tape, thread in a plug, stuff a cork from a wine bottle in it - something! How many times did you drag your coat hanger over #1 after pulling it out of #2? Then you dragged the vacuum hose over it. One bump, one slip and now you have junk in two cylinders. You knew you screwed up the first time, why not do everything in your power to not let it happen again? That's all. Carry on.

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

😂😂 Glad I was able to raise some BP’s this morning

[@jerrybigrig9475]

👍👍👍

[@scandinerdian1961]

"Turns out the reason it's been running like crap is because of the rat shit I just fished out".

[@AudiolibrosLecturasNocturnas]

I just drop a rubber Ring from a fuel injector in my truck and I'm gonna let it there I mean it will just melt right, it's plastic rubber not metal😅

[@Birkedaloutdoorsman]

I stupidly tried moving the piston while my endoscope camera was in there to try and see the valve seats. It broke off inside the cylinder. 😂

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

Oh noooooooooo!

[@Birkedaloutdoorsman]

@TheMotorcycleMD spend 8 hours today fishing it out with a shop vac. Ended up just running it with some of the broken parts inside and they blew out the tail pipe. What a day

[@petev.9357]

So...While messing with #2 did you ever think to plug #1??? Suck to pull it out of 2 and drop right in 1.

[@louisrouthier9901]

Shop vac and fuel line

[@raulreyes2384]

magnet?

[@bobh721]

For the magnetic rubber or the magnetic copper?

[@wdhewson]

The running engine would've spit that soft soft wire and rubber out the exhaust immediately with no ill effects.

[@CIarkNova]

Really? The valve opens enough for the cut piece?

[@TheMotorcycleMD]

False. I have seen many of rubber compounds from intake boots get stuck on valves and the motor looses compression.

[@rafaellastracom6411]

Were you, were you watching the video? Did you see how big that piece of rubber was?

[@CIarkNova]

@@TheMotorcycleMD just wanted to say, thank you for posting this video! Along with all the other great shit you share!

[@CIarkNova]

I cringe watching people do piston wrist pin clips on groms without blocking the jug.