8n woes Help!!

tired 8n

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please help! I have dropped a craftsman open end wrench down the starter hole in my '52 8n when attempting to install a new starter (please, don't laugh….I've suffered enough) I've tried fishing with a magnet to no avail. PLEASE…is there an Easy solution???? tired 8n
 
Dear tired.........giggle......(sorry, BTDT) Would it surprize you to learn, that iff'n the tranny has enuff room fer dropped starter Bendix's, it probably hazz enuff room fer yer wrench as long as it ain't a black wrench. I hates squeezin' blackheads.......Dell (WA)

tip:......SAND the starter hole so their ain't NO paint. Them 6-volt starter motors really do draw them AMPS
 
Thanks, Dell. I take it I can just leave it there and sleep well at nite. No chance of internal damage??? (would my wife fit in there?)
 
If it was my tractor I would keep on digging or
even split the tractor to get the wrench out. You
may be OK forever or you may hit a bump and the
wrench bounce up and hit the flywheel and be
driven into the bell housing. The cast iron may
then break. How lucky do you feel?
 
(quoted from post at 01:42:50 10/09/14) please help! I have dropped a craftsman open end wrench down the starter hole in my '52 8n when attempting to install a new starter (please, don't laugh….I've suffered enough) I've tried fishing with a magnet to no avail. PLEASE…is there an Easy solution???? tired 8n

letting any dang machine steal one of my favorite wrenches....not likely. give it back!
Unbolting the steering box and going in thru there will give you a better angle.
 
Do you have a grand son in pre-school, have him try to reach in and get it. Being the youngest of the 4 sons I was asked to do such things.
 
i won't even ask how it got in there.. but if the magnet won't do it. then the steer box as someone else mentioned is the least invasive way to go in

don't have a drywall bore camera do you?
 

Get a stronger magnet. The Neodymium Rare-Earth type. You can find them in a hobby store or a Home Depot.
Come in all sizes. I keep a few the size of a quarter in a tool box. Easily pickups 20lbs I epoxied a string to them and use them as a retrieval tool.
The front engine compartment of my BMW has more crevices for a nut to fall down into than the side of a mountain. Dont ask how I know,

That wrench could not have gone that far. The issue I see is that it slipped skinny side between the flywheel and case. Which means it has to come back up that way.
 
No grandsons yet. Maybe I could borrow one. The bottom of the housing seems to be "gooey" with grease/oil.. with the magnet I bring up lots of very tiny metal shavings mixed in the grease. my fear is the wrench gets (or already is) adhered to the flywheel and then it becomes a shooting gallery!
 

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