What do you guys think ?...No, really.

[northcreek]

From an Equinox website: Whoops!

Hello,
I had a drill bit fall into the spark plug hole (2020 Equinox( and the car was started. Is there anything that can be done to fix the problem without having to change the entire engine. This picture is from the inside of where the spark plug goes. I believe the drill bit is in the cylinder.

 

[azswiss]

Proves the old adage that truth really is stranger than fiction.

Other than replacing the engine one alternative would be to report it stolen.

 

[Mooseman]

It's a 2020 so just two years old and likely under warranty. My question is why was he working on the engine? I mean, really?

 

[northcreek]

Maybe they were playing a version of corn hole with a drill bit and the spark plug hole…

 

[NJTB]

Reminds me of motorcyle guys lubing the cylinders for winter and the straw from the can shoots into the chamber. Then the inevitable post about 'how do I get it out?
That must have made one hell of a racket.

 

[Matt]

They started the farking car when it was in there...let that sink in.

 

[MD_Envoy_Driver]

De Nile is not just a river in Egypt. Who in their right mind would START an engine with FOD sitting in a cylinder?

 

[Mooseman]

Yeah, that's it. Start it and it will come out the exhaust!

 

[azswiss]

Who in their right mind would START an engine with FOD sitting in a cylinder?

And this is after they lost the bit (& likely heard it rattle down somewhere) and then replaced the spark plug!!!

 

[Joe_67]

Wow. I'd love the whole back story.

I did have an odd experience once. It was an old beater Dodge Neon - the little 4 cyl Chrysler engine. For whatever reason (can't remember exactly why) I was finging TDC compression partly with the help of a dowel. The dowel somehow hung up in a weird way and broke off way down low inside of the cylinder. I tried all sorts of stuff to get the piece of dowel out to no avail. Can't recall the details. It had just landed in a weird way. So finally I cranked the engine over to shake things up (spark plug still out) and somehow did get it out. Luckily it did not appear to do any damage.

The next time I needed a "dowel" for such a thing, btw, (I did NOT use a drill bit!) I went to a pc of plastic toilet supply line I had in my misc plumbing box. I figured it wouldn't break off!

 

[northcreek]

And this is after they lost the bit (& likely heard it rattle down somewhere) and then replaced the spark plug!!!

Hence...."a hole-in-one"

 

[Mooseman]

I just use a screwdriver to find TDC so it can't fall in.

If I would have been in his shoes, I would have used a borescope to position the piston and bit in a way to use a magnet to retrieve it but he obviously ran it and now he's fornicated himself!

 

[cornchip]

Malice in the combustion palace.