Broken 5/16 dowel in block

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Sep 3, 2019 | 08:59 AM

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Chuy05

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LOL.

As long as one doesn't break one they work great....but then there is that .005%.

What are the odds I fall into that category. Hell I might go buy a scratch off with that luck haha

Sep 3, 2019 | 09:18 AM

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I would say pretty high atm.

Sep 3, 2019 | 10:55 AM

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No.

Metal or wood dowels?

You *might* be able to take the intake/valley cover off and use a pick to move it out some.

Worse case, pull the heads. Pulling the heads on a truck isn't nearly as hard as people think. When I dropped a lifter during a cam swap, I had the passenger side head off in about 30 min. It took me longer to prep the block/head for new gaskets.

All you had to do was remove the heads? Sheesh youre a lucky man.. try damn near taking the entire bottom half off the engine while in the truck... on a 4WD truck!

Sep 3, 2019 | 04:31 PM

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All you had to do was remove the heads? Sheesh youre a lucky man.. try damn near taking the entire bottom half off the engine while in the truck... on a 4WD truck!

Yea. I was lucky. The lifter slipped past my dowel rod and landed on top of the crank.

I went to Autozone and got a flexible magnet and after about 30min, was able to pick it up and snake it out carefully.

Sep 3, 2019 | 05:12 PM

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I just removed the rear main seal (was going to replace it anyways) and I think I can push it through from the back side towards the front. I'll keep you guys posted

Sep 3, 2019 | 06:01 PM

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hit the center of the rod with a small drill bit (barely smaller than a screw), then thread in a sheetrock screw and pull it out. if you just attempt putting a screw in the end, the wood will epand or crack.

Sep 3, 2019 | 08:08 PM

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Here is the fix to this devastating issue. I pulled the rear main seal and you can see the rear of the cam and right above it there is 2 oil galleys. I went ahead and put a oiled dowel in there pushed it out towards the front of the block grabbed it with a pair of vice grips and pulled the demonic dowel out.