HELP! please read
 

ok i have a major problem. stupidly self inflicted.

I was cleaning around the spark plug holes before a did a valve check and i put pieces of toilet paper in the holes to block them from getting sand and grit in them. there was quiet a bit of it around the holes. so a large bit of toilet paper ( a whole square) slipped into one of the spark plug holes into the cylinder!!!

what do i do? i have no idea how to get it back out again!?

im in Mandoza Argentina.... and need to get on the road tomorrow.. (long story)

any advice would be appreaciated! ah!

im thinking it will just be burnt to smithereens on the first few strokes and exhuasted?

Personally I'd just fire it up, it was just an ordinary little square of toilet paper right?

Although if you could get it out with tweezers, may not be a bad idea?

think im just going to fire it up. i cant see it with a torch. at the moment waitingon a friend to return so he can spin the back wheel while i line up TDC and feel for the compression stroke..

thanks for the advice

Earth the spark plug and turn the engine over on the e-start, might get blown out through the plug hole?

Not a bad idea, or get the cylinder on TDC and get a small length of something like a screwdriver and put grease on it and hope the toilet paper 'sticks' to it, but be very careful.

its waiting on TDC at the moment for the valve check. just had to do a quick run to the vinyards with some friends :-S a little tipsy now, seems like a good time to get it over with. will try and fish it out first. if not just pressing the button

So what happened?!

As with most people that don't post a response I always assume that no news is good news... and my bet is that the toilet paper just burnt and disintegrated on running the bike. jeiger

It would have been a completely different story if a metal object or material or other foreign object made its way into the cylinder head... I think the moral here is to take (EXTRA) care when cleaning the bike and removing sparkplugs. :mchappy: