Lost one of my acorns down the frame rail . . .

[f1reverb]

The acorn nut that holds the air-filter housing to the rubber mount. Damn acorn (the one on the driver's side by the brake-booster) fell while I was putting the housing back on and of course it rolled down the frame rail under the firewall. Those things aren't magnetic either, so I couldn't attract it that way. I'm going to try a grabber tomorrow, but it's probably there for the life of the car. Any fishing suggestions to maybe recover it? Are the acorns still available at the dealer? '74 '02 of course.

[pkbinplano]

(nt)

[John_in_VA]

but they sure look nice!

I've lost hardware (even the orange dx cover) down that rail. Jack/shore it up, crawl under and try a ruler, chopstick, et al to flick it into sight. No telling WHAT you'll find!

[pkbinplano]

(nt)

[2002Targa]

When I pulled my motor a few months ago, I found that special nut that holds the throttle linkage onto a 32/36 down there on the driver rail all the way in the back. It fell off and stranded me about 100 yards from my house.

I was glad to find it, now I have a spare.

F1reverb: I love how many different shades of yellow/green you get with the different lighting pictures of your car. Beautiful car.

[BigDog]

Rig up a nice skinny hose attachment that you can work down in there and suck that bad boy up!! That's the only way I know to deal with it...

Now when I was mounting my headers I dropped one of the nuts for the header attachment which slid down to the collector between all the pipes on the header. Now that was a PITA> I spent an hour or so working it out of there with a combination of feeler gauges, chopsticks, and other pointy bits!!! Would have probably been faster to remove the header completely and turn it over!!!

Good Luck!

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BigDog

'76 2002

[Guest Anonymous]

(nt)

[B-Doon]

I feel your pain....yesterday I was attempting to reconnect the manual choke to my solex and I dropped my 8mm wrench. I wen to pick it up, and clumsy me pushed down on top of the frame rail....It was my only wrench of that size....after an hour i finally go it out with part of an old sprinkler head. Now I have a grease filled cut on my pinky finger that is infected....Arghhhh...

Brian 72 crappy inka

[SteveJ]

We always knew you had a nut loose, Jay!

[f1reverb]

John, as far as I know the acorns nuts were the factory installed nuts, as these definitely are the original ones (the original owner of my car took pride in keeping his nuts). I remember back in the '70s my '69 1600-2 had the acorns, but after dropping them a number of times all three of the acorns on the nuts broke off, one while I was tightening the nut down. I believe it was for safety so mechanics didn't cut themselves on the exposed bolt end. I hear weak nuts run in the Quandt family tree, of which BMW is the main nut. Oh yeah, the color Golf fluctuates as much as my golf scores, but for some reason cops always put green as the color on my tickets. It really pissed me off on my last ticket in the '02 in August, when I noticed later the cop put my hair color as white, when it's blond. I guess when frying suspects with 20 million candlepower and Christmas-tree lights the cops loose their visual color balance.

[ifayeoh]

or a garden hose hooked up to the vacuum.

have fun

[02Les]

realOEM shows item 3 (hex nut) holding the filter housing to the rubber mounts.

The only "acorn" nuts I remember are those holding the valve cover on.

[JR]

I could never get any work done without my magnet on a stick near by. Even found a nice 10mmx8mm BMW box end wrench in one car.

[Guest Anonymous]

I think there is a drain hole at the end of the frame rail where it stops. I would put a pressure air hose against that hole and blow it out. That thing should launch back to your engine area : )

[Guest Anonymous]

I think there is a drain hole at the end of the frame rail where it stops. I would put a pressure air hose against that hole and blow it out. That thing should launch back to your engine area : )