well last night i was coming home and i was hering a werid sound.Apon lookin unpe the hood i found what the problem was the breather.The rod that goes in to the carb to gold the brether dow came loose and fell in to the carb and in to the motor.I am unclear if i have blew it up of it it just on a piston.ill update as soon as i find something out.
Time to pull the heads and look for damage.You may get lucky,I have seen engines eat all sorts of things due to butterfingers/forgetfullness etc...Some times its very bad,sometimes its just a matter of getting the pieces out of the cyl bore or out from under the valve its holding open.Dont worry till you get a look at it,then worry if you need to.Good luck,hope you get lucky with this one.
You'd be surprised how tough engines really are. Sometimes stuff like this happens and they go right through, might beat a plug up a little but they'll still run. Heck, I've still got a bunch of needle bearings floating around in the pan of mine....from a failed junk rocker arm. It still runs fine but I don't run it any more than I have to! If it were me, I'd pull the carb off of the manifold and take a look-see with a flash light. Chances are good that it's still laying in the intake somewhere. Oh and when someone says they "blew up an engine", usually they are referring to one of many incidents I've encountered while trying to make 700 HP work in a stock iron block. If it's blown up, it wont run. Most of the time if I hear the term blown up, I think of parts still on the pavement or parts sticking out the side of the motor.
Don't know if I completely agree (though I do mostly agree )... I blew up the F.E. 360 in my '71 F250 a few years ago, to the tune of having a large hole in the side of the block with the connecting rod sticking out. It was pretty well "blown up", the block and all was destroyed. But, it still ran on 7 cylinders well enough to make it several miles back to my house after it happened (with clouds of smoke billowing out the back, none the less).
This was going to be my response. Those intake runners are pretty curvy, and I bet it got stuck on the way down. So, describe the "weird sound" you were hearing. That would give us a better idea if it made it all the way down or not. I personally think it would be difficult to even get through the carb. The venturis would catch most items dropped in there. Probably have a butterfly stuck open... Good luck in your search...
get er done! lol didnt the mythbusters drop some change into an engine one time and nothing happened?
yeah the entire passanger side of the motor is done to pistons cracked warped valves cracked head.But i have some luck i have a spare 302 block i can use.
well me and my dad got into the motor a little bit more and we found that i only damaged 2 pistons 1 was cracked the other 1 completley broke. but no damage to the cylnder walls should be back up and running next week.
