what to do??????

[whitie's]

ok I just bought A 1955 with a very, very low mile 352 in it. now the guy that I bought it of of was taking the stock intake off to replace it with an alluminium one. Now when he was doing so did not notice there was a peach pit...yes a peach pit, on the intake. And as he was pulling it off he watched the peach pit fall down the distributor hole. Now I have pulled the timing cover, the pan and rotated the engine by hand several times, and can't find it anywhere??

So my question is what else should i do? would it really hurt anything if I just put it back together and run it? I don't want to pull the engine and tear it down.

Please any suggestions is much appreciated.

[Hypoid]

Now there's one I never heard before. LMAO!

If you don't see it down the hole, or in the oil pan, it's time to look under the inake and valley pan. The up-side is that you have the aluminimum intake.

This would bother me. A set of gaskets and a day of cussing is a pretty good trade-off for never having to worry about it.

JMHO

[krewat]

I think Hypoid hit it right on the head already, but maybe it laying on top of the oil pump?

Peach pit - man, that guy has got to remember not to spit them out whereever he is at the moment

[whitie's]

the intake is off so it is not in the valley... not on the top of the oil pump......so??? would it not just get crushed if anything? I could just keep check/changing the oil to monitor it. what would you do?

[krewat]

Maybe not believe the guy? I don't know... There's really no where for it to go besides what's already been listed.

Did you check under the valley pan?

[FFR428]

How long did the engine run after the pit dropped in? Did he start it up or just bail on the project?