dropped a screw driver bit in the gear box

[callphy]

i was stupid to work on the dashboard gps dvd head unit after i took the shifter cover off

and i dropped a screw driver bit , cant find it anywhere on the floormat and the sound when it dropped definitely sounds like hitting metal few times. (must be somewhere near the shifter)

looked for hour still cant find it. the gear shift with no problem so far. will this create future problems?

should i take the seats and as much trim off as possible and look till i find it?

 

[CHIQLES]

try to use a magnet extension

 

[tweety2300]

By the title I thought you meant transmission lol. It won't hurt anything other than you won't have that bit anymore. There's nothing major there that it can get to or hurt

 

[callphy]

By the title I thought you meant transmission lol. It won't hurt anything other than you won't have that bit anymore. There's nothing major there that it can get to or hurt

lol i would feel bad next time when i hear gear grinding sound, and think its the bit inside

 

[tweety2300]

If you dropped it inside the car there is no possible way for it to get there

 

[callphy]

i got it, but its still like a kidney stone i really wanna get ride of XD

maybe i'll grab a magnetic pickup tool and search it again when i get time

 

[Installshield 2]

magnetic pick up or a long bendable 'grabber' thing (has a plunger you push to extract some teeth like things, let go to pull them back in)...an 'antennae mirror'...and a good headlamp, so you can work the tools with both hands with a light on your face haha...

as said, you didn't drop anything in the 'gear box'...and MSP's have a very simple rod linkage (not cables and all their ridiculousness) to the gear box...there is almost no where for that bit to get wedged to cause problems with that...the shifter sits in a 'bowl' with a big rubber cup seal over it, you'd clearly see it sitting there from in side the car...Its probably just down under the double DIN opening, on top of the rails that go over the little opening in front of the cup holder...pull the ash tray out, get a screwdriver to remove the housing it slides into, and use that mirror with a good light...you should be able to at least see what you dropped, but actually getting it out...good luck haha.

 

[Protege03ak46]

As a mechanic, some things fall, and disappear and you'll never find them. I lost a 150 dollar snap-on ratchet inside a frame of a truck last week. No way in hell I'll get it back