Please help me. I have fitted a new head to my 2000 ford courier 2.5 turbo diesel. I started the engine and it ran fine for a minute and then one of the tappets started to clatter. I turned the engine off and removed the rocker cover only to discover one of the tappet lock nuts has come loose and disappeared. I assume down the oil gallery @ the front of the head. Can this travel all the way down to the timing gears. or are the galleries to small for it to go thru to the sump???? Many thanks GV
No it can't, I can't see it going any farther than the oil galley on top, those holes are usually small and the engine tilts to the rear. But I don't think it went with the oil, it went with gravity and is probably right under neath the missing nut. If it does drop down it will be lying in the pan, waiting for you to drop the pan and find it. Take a magnet down there and see if you can fish it out. Good luck.
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