Anyone have an inspection camera I could borrow?

[zed4]

Hi,

I've gone and dropped a cable tie into a trumpet in the plenum on the TVR. I'm removing the inlet manifold to renew the gasket and dropped a damn cable tie into the trumpet, down the inlet manifold and into the cylinder head or maybe cylinder. Bugger.

I could really do with using a tiny inspection camera down inside the cylinder head inlet port to see where it is! Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Dan

[pilbeam_mp62]

zed4 said:

Hi,

I've gone and dropped a cable tie into a trumpet in the plenum on the TVR. I'm removing the inlet manifold to renew the gasket and dropped a damn cable tie into the trumpet, down the inlet manifold and into the cylinder head or maybe cylinder. Bugger.

I could really do with using a tiny inspection camera down inside the cylinder head inlet port to see where it is! Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Dan

Hmmm... even if you can see where it is, what are you going to do then ?? I would be tempted to block up all other orifices and try a vacuum cleaner on that trumpet.... use a new bag so that you can see whether you extract anything....it's worth a try ?

[zed4]

I was in the process of removing the plenum base (hence having nothing blocking up the intake holes!) and I’m not 100% sure which port it went down. I’m 90% sure I know, but I would like to be able to see if first. I’ve removed the inlet manifold as I was removing it anyway and can get my finger inside the inlet port on the head, but I can’t feel it.

I have put the Dyson up against the port but couldn’t see anything come out. I really want to be able to see inside, then I’ll try a few options, compressed air into the spark plug hole or a grabber tool to see if I can get it.

[BIRMA]

I've got one that I use for inspecting roof voids etc that you can use, but it has a head about 15mm in diameter but has a light and magnification.

[Tuscanite]

They aren't that expensive and they get a lot of use once you've got the knack of using the attachments:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/buy-cctv-and-security/cove...