Mine as well ask before I have to....

Any ideas when I cant see it and dont want to dissassemble my girl all the way?!?!??!

Magnetic, tool retriever. you got one?

no, I don't. I seemed to have lost ALL my tools in my various relationships, even though I had a garage full of tools since I was 16 and fixing tractors on a farm, you men seem to always think, if it goes in a garage, it is yours. Every snap-on and craftsman I had is gone to the breakup police! Thanks for bringing up painful meemories *sniff*.

ok, that was lame, anyway, I tested my magnetic screw driver on the allens I had out, and it picked em up fine. The problem is I can't see the lost wrench, and poking around my engine with sharp objects jsut doesn't seem like a good idea :eek:

But, I will pick up that seemingly very useful tool tonight at Sears, we will see.

What I really need is one of those orthoscopic, fiber optic, viewer thingies, you know for surgery to look around in there.

:D

note to self:

honey this is what I want for Christmas.


orthoscopic, fiber optic, viewer thingies, you know for surgery to look around in there

that would be good.

I'll tell ya a trick that may or may not work, take another allen wrench and tie some fishing string to it. Try and drop it in the same place as the other one. keep pulling it out and in and see how many diff. places it could have went.

then use the magnet.

SWEET! And I thought I was creative and resourceful. I will definately try that. Thanks 1Wheel!

In what part of the engine did you think you dropped the wrench? Have you tried tilting the bike to see if the wrench will slide so you can get to it? Another good thing to try is duct tape. Everything sticks to duck tape. Maybe get a clothes hanger, bend it in the direction you got to go, and put duck tape on the one end. Good luck!

see, that is the problem, I traced teh direction it would have gone in, and nadda, I have no idea where it could be, you would think I would see it, but NOOOOOO. It was just too much fun and too easy.

Maybe it's not even in the engine, but sitting on the top in between something. Did you hear it rattle around when you dropped it?

happened to me once with the screw that goes into the back of the air box lid.
a shit load of patience topped of with mucho (not macho damnit :roll: ) concentration and my eyes went right ot it. Do your best to remember the sounds it made as it went and your brain should find it...
ok, enough of the crazy talk...

aren't you going to take off you plastics to install you full system?

ok ok that may be why you dropped your hex wrench.
did you focus at looking on top of the trans? that's where most of my fallen ones have gone.


here's a pic to see just how many things it could have gotten hung up
click here (http://photos.motorcycle-usa.com/04_CBR1000RR_DetX.jpg)


and another


click here (http://photos.motorcycle-usa.com/04_CBR1000RR_DetAR.jpg)

hope the pics do a lil something for you

Damn gnt, you over achiever :D I've found that if you have access to an air compressor, you can use short blasts of air from a blow gun to pin point the location of a lost tool or bolt so long as they ar light in weight. Aim the nossle of the gun into a suspicious crevace and give a quick blast. Most times this will move the tool or bolt and you can hear it clang on other metallic items. Some cases it will be just what it takes to blast the object free. Wear safety glasses as the item might become a missle now and be cautious around the throttle bodies. I have lost my fare share of tools to the Garage Gods :wink:

a very small extendible mirror will do the trick, sears sells them, so does snap-on, but you probably dont have access to a snap-on dealer. i have been working on cars for 13 years, dropping shit sucks, the compressed air is a very good idea too, good luck! :D

THanks guys, again, you are my knights in shining armor. Got an air compressor, last guy tried to take it I moved away and said screw you MINE! gonna have my man look for a mirror at sears when he picks up the other tools we need, and finally....

Naked bike pictures, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that was sexy!

It sounds to me like you are spending more time trying to find it then you would just taking a fairing off and getting it......

the girl is Nekked :D she has no fairings, it all has to go to get to the heads. I even took off the gas tank and a few other parts that coulda stayed there for just an exhaust replace. it fell into the small area of engine that cannot be reached or seen easily.

Got to have patience. You definately need a magnetic pickup tool. A good light also helps. You'll find it.

the girl is Nekked :D she has no fairings, it all has to go to get to the heads. I even took off the gas tank and a few other parts that coulda stayed there for just an exhaust replace. it fell into the small area of engine that cannot be reached or seen easily.

That sucks......... Good luck....

Got to have patience. You definately need a magnetic pickup tool. A good light also helps. You'll find it.

Yup YUp

someone get me a match, ive got the supersoaker full of gas

Grab the bike by the wheels, hold it upside down and shake it a little. The wrench should fall right out the top. 8)