2G clogged oil feed to the head

[605jdm]

I was doing a head gasket job on my 2g 7bolt motor and while I was cleaning the block I stuffed blue shop towels down every hole on the block so I didn't contaminate the inside of my block from scraping the old gasket off. My problem is one of the little pieces of towel would not come out and I ended up pushing it down into the engine. I just put everything back together and my plan is to use a drill to spin the crank and hopefully push it out with some oil pressure but my question is where would it get stuck at in the head? could I just take it out of the pressure regulator in the head or will the towel just break down in the oil? I am very concerned because I just rebuilt the head and switched my turbo feed to the head location.

 

[Vegas Smith]

Hmm, maybe just take the oil pan off and get it out from there after you run it for a few seconds. Not sure were that oil galley goes.

 

[jakk220]

Maybe you could makeshift something to adapt to the oil filter housing and blow some compressed air though it and blow it out the top. Might be a bit messy though.

 

[jakk220]

How big was this piece of shop towel?

 

[lasthope05]

You've got a huge problem depending on how big the piece of towel is. That is the oil feed hole to the cylinder head. Problem with that is there is very little squish between the cylinder head/gasket/block, coupled with the fact that oil squeezes around the head stud/bolt there, you could easily reduce oil flow to the cylinder head.

Not sure what you we're thinking just throwing it back together. I would of spun the oil pump when the head was still off to try to push it out.

 

[jakk220]

You've got a huge problem depending on how big the piece of towel is. That is the oil feed hole to the cylinder head. Problem with that is there is very little squish between the cylinder head/gasket/block, coupled with the fact that oil squeezes around the head stud/bolt there, you could easily reduce oil flow to the cylinder head.

Not sure what you we're thinking just throwing it back together. I would of spun the oil pump when the head was still off to try to push it out.

I missed the part where he said he put everything back together. I don't know how much you can really do now...

 

[chrysler kid]

Take the head back off, use a shop vac to suck it out of that oil passage.

 

[605jdm]

Is that the only oil port into the head or does the turbo oil feed off the head come from a different port? From what I read it it two different oil passages into the head but it wasn't very clear.

 

[lasthope05]

Yes. That is the only oil port to the head. It feeds everything upstream.