I've dropped a nut in my oil pan on a chevy s10 4 cylinder. what would be worst that can happen if I don't remove it. any suggestions for getting it out without removing oil pan. I'm going to try a strong magnet to move it to filler tube opening then maybe I can get it out with a magnt stick. any advice appreciated....vic

I find it hard to believe that there is actually someone else on this planet that this sort of thing happens to besides me. :eek:

I don't know if you're oil pickup tube is mobile in that engine, but about the only harm I can see happening is the nut preventing the pickup from swinging around in a complete arc, if it's meant to do that at all. I don't think the nut is going to bounce out of the oil and be struck by the crankshaft, but the effect would probably be spectacular if it did. Hope you can get the nut out with the magnet...I'm sure you'd feel lots better about it then.

It doesn't beat the guy who put his finger up in the oil drain hole in the oil pan and got stuck on a fishing hook. :evillol:

you should be able to just drop the pan a little and reach in and get the bolt.

It doesn't beat the guy who put his finger up in the oil drain hole in the oil pan and got stuck on a fishing hook. :evillol:


Holy Toledo. Knowing MY luck, and finding out that something like THAT is possible, I will N-E-V-E-R stick my finger into the oil drain hole!

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Holy Toledo. Knowing MY luck, and finding out that something like THAT is possible, I will N-E-V-E-R stick my finger into the oil drain hole!

:sly:

:lol2: LMFAO!!!! I just want to know how the fishing hook got IN the oil pan!