Sooo, there I was cleaning up after finishing a project when my elbow decided to putt a roll of electrical tape into the open air intake.
If earlier today you heard someone yell a Darth Vader "Nooooo!," better than Vader, followed by Samuel L. Jackson's best, . . yeah, that was me.
I did the responsible thing and sat and pondered the solution for at least an hour, then with Bushmills, neat in the glass, then from the bottle.
Patience and forethought will keep you from making a bad situation worse. Situations appear better after whiskey.
A lot of my work involves oil and gas exploration, and in the industry this is called a fish (def. - junk in the hole).
I've seen some of the wild tools used to retrieve fish two miles deep. So I fashioned one with flexible tubing and several versions of coat hanger wire on the end; think twisted pitchfork. Nada, didn't work. This may still be the solution, but the tubing kept spinning and bunching up.
The problem is there are two 45 degreeish angles to navigate.
Relevant facts: my rig is a 2021 P1K5 LE - yes, LE, meaning there are skidplates that I'd have to remove to get to the intake from below. I've checked under the seat, and there's no access point from the top.
I removed the rubber elbow (in photo) that makes the first turn under the intake box, but I'm not sure if the access is any better, top or from the side.
Steeped with Irish resolve, Imma thinking four things:
1 - Open the rear air box, surprise it, and blow it from behind with a compressed air bead seater to see what happens. As they say o'r there - brace yerself, Maggie.
2 - From the rear air box, again, shove at it with a flexible pool noodle, or something. Try to push it out the front, or maybe the reverse. For as fun as these two sound, neither are the silver bullet because of the roller coaster ride the thing has to take through the air duct to get back out on top on either side.
3 - Keep fishing. Find a different way to get the twisted pitchfork to hook it.
4 - Craigslist, "As is."
Please talk amongst yourselves, and respond. I'll be offline for a moment - going fishing with a toilet snake.
McStewB
If earlier today you heard someone yell a Darth Vader "Nooooo!," better than Vader, followed by Samuel L. Jackson's best, . . yeah, that was me.
I did the responsible thing and sat and pondered the solution for at least an hour, then with Bushmills, neat in the glass, then from the bottle.
Patience and forethought will keep you from making a bad situation worse. Situations appear better after whiskey.
A lot of my work involves oil and gas exploration, and in the industry this is called a fish (def. - junk in the hole).
I've seen some of the wild tools used to retrieve fish two miles deep. So I fashioned one with flexible tubing and several versions of coat hanger wire on the end; think twisted pitchfork. Nada, didn't work. This may still be the solution, but the tubing kept spinning and bunching up.
The problem is there are two 45 degreeish angles to navigate.
Relevant facts: my rig is a 2021 P1K5 LE - yes, LE, meaning there are skidplates that I'd have to remove to get to the intake from below. I've checked under the seat, and there's no access point from the top.
I removed the rubber elbow (in photo) that makes the first turn under the intake box, but I'm not sure if the access is any better, top or from the side.
Steeped with Irish resolve, Imma thinking four things:
1 - Open the rear air box, surprise it, and blow it from behind with a compressed air bead seater to see what happens. As they say o'r there - brace yerself, Maggie.
2 - From the rear air box, again, shove at it with a flexible pool noodle, or something. Try to push it out the front, or maybe the reverse. For as fun as these two sound, neither are the silver bullet because of the roller coaster ride the thing has to take through the air duct to get back out on top on either side.
3 - Keep fishing. Find a different way to get the twisted pitchfork to hook it.
4 - Craigslist, "As is."
Please talk amongst yourselves, and respond. I'll be offline for a moment - going fishing with a toilet snake.
McStewB
