Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
... the new injectors are in, start it, chug chug splutter. Fuel leak. Crack hood; looks like I forgot to tighten #2.
Pull the intake;
PLUNK... ROLL...
Yep; bolt fell into intake.
Fingers can't reach it, magnet's not picking it up. It's not 5 inches either way. Did it really go in there? Maybe it fell down the side and it's stuck in the engine bay somewhere and not really in the intake?
Long story short... I err on the side of caution and tear it down. Fuel rail and all to get the intake cover off. The wife runs to Cummins Great Plains to get me an intake gasket.
There it is. That damn bolt made it all the way back to the end of the cover between 4 and 5. It's not round... weird. Thank god it didn't turn left and drop into a cyclinder.
And I do always plug the intake hole. The frk'in thing fell in when I was lifting the intake off.
Meanwhile; this thing looks like it's leaking a lot. Maybe more then #2. I was very meticulous about torque specs (except forgetting to tighten 2; it was only finger tight) ... so ... may have to go old school on it and just get the fuel feed lines and tubes damn tight. A dealer had this off before and I'm certain they followed no specs; the tubes and feed lines were WAY over torqued from the feel of them taking them off.
Pull the intake;
PLUNK... ROLL...
Yep; bolt fell into intake.
Fingers can't reach it, magnet's not picking it up. It's not 5 inches either way. Did it really go in there? Maybe it fell down the side and it's stuck in the engine bay somewhere and not really in the intake?
Long story short... I err on the side of caution and tear it down. Fuel rail and all to get the intake cover off. The wife runs to Cummins Great Plains to get me an intake gasket.
There it is. That damn bolt made it all the way back to the end of the cover between 4 and 5. It's not round... weird. Thank god it didn't turn left and drop into a cyclinder.
And I do always plug the intake hole. The frk'in thing fell in when I was lifting the intake off.
Meanwhile; this thing looks like it's leaking a lot. Maybe more then #2. I was very meticulous about torque specs (except forgetting to tighten 2; it was only finger tight) ... so ... may have to go old school on it and just get the fuel feed lines and tubes damn tight. A dealer had this off before and I'm certain they followed no specs; the tubes and feed lines were WAY over torqued from the feel of them taking them off.
