Dropped a razor in the square water pump hole of the block..

[wallydog]

How screwed am I? I was scraping the old water pump gasket and now i'm stressing.

Are there any moving parts in the coolant channels? I dont know what the coolant paths look like.




SOLVED: Used a tiny strong chrome magnet and some steel wire wrapped around it to form a tight cage. Was able to pull the razor out luckily.

Thank you

[SuperSSguy]

Oh man...This reminds me of when I was trying to clean out my throttle body (On car cleaning) and the deep creep bottle had one of those skinny plastic straw looking adapters and it shot off and straight into the TB and into the intake manifold...I was freakin out cussing and carrying on thinking I would have to remove all of that and the intake to get to it! I knew I couldn't just leave it but good O`l Dad got some tape and a screw driver and got it out!! I will NEVER do it like that again IF I do I will either hold the straw or tape it with tape and a string...Usually in the past Ive never had one shoot off like that! But there's always something new when it comes to cars and mechanics....!!................. And Im glad you figured your problem out man!! Great Job!