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:oops: .....the tappets had gone brilliantly, I'd set them up a treat (as far as I can tell), I'd taken my time, set & reset, cleaned all surfaces, tightend the nuts perfectly - amazing. A good afternoons work and then......the stupid rubber bung (you know the one you remove to look at the timing marks), I lost it. Not on the floor or down a drain, I'd put a little oil on it to make it 'slide in', and it did just that - slid in, inside the casing :x bugger. I went to get my long nose pliers but by the time I got back it had dropped out of view. Amazingly I had another bung that fitted, but what about the one inside? Will it do any damage? or will it just disintegrate?

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No worries. A great many of people have done the same thing.

It is sitting in the bottom of the clutch/flywheel housing. It won't harm a thing. If you ever pull the transmission from the engine, you will get it back.
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You're in luck. I have a pic that shows right where it (harmlessly) goes:
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r87/ ... ube-23.jpg
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Just don't be lubing things up to slide in your bung hole anymore.

Most of us don't do that sort of thing around here.
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I did laugh at that; but why do I have to spell "c0cktail," so that it doesn't appear "dingle?"

But lubing a bung hole is ok...go figure

there out to be an "off Topic entry, similar to George Carlin's 7 words, that lists words that do not make the cut of web propriety.
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I am ashamed that I missed my chance for a bung hole joke... :oops:

Good save, Phil.
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Hey all

thanks for the replies, both sensible answers and those that were holey (sic) unhelpful but funny.

I am no longer worried abcout my plug lost in my hole ;-)

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stu wrote:
I am no longer worried abcout my plug lost in my hole ;-)

Stu
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