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Old 04-16-2019, 04:20 PM   #1
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Default Bendix bolt retrieval

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!
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Old 04-16-2019, 09:24 PM   #2
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So you fed the siphon/vacuum hose through the starter opening and down into the flywheel housing to retrieve the bolt?
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Old 04-16-2019, 10:12 PM   #3
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Trevor needs to buy lottery tickets
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Old 04-16-2019, 11:22 PM   #4
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Hadn’t thought of doing it that way!
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Old 04-16-2019, 11:44 PM   #5
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You carry a siphon hose?

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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.
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Old 04-17-2019, 07:29 AM   #7
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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

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