Plastic tube sheared off and lost in oil pan of honda 9.9 kicker--get it out!!!

[Sharphooks]

Hello Gents

This past summer I posted a thread about an approx. 8" section of plastic tube that got sheared off on the edge of my dip-stick tube and fell back down into the oil pan on a Honda BF9.9

My mechanic said: "Leave it in there. Go fishing. Pull the head this winter and get it out; or, just leave it in there."

Reason it got there---I was using an oil pump to pull some oil back out (I over-filled). The pick-up tube was brittle, got caught on the bottom edge (sharp!!) of the dip-stick tube and fell back into the oil pan.

I'm here to tell you guys the following: if that ever happens to you and your kicker, pull the head and get it out immediately. Pictures are worth a thousand words---the second pic shows the bits and pieces of the pick-up tube that were stuck to the screen of the oil pump hose. A freaking miracle that any oil made it to the filter and the moving parts of the engine!

 

[Sculpin]

Wow. Glad you got it resolved. Thanks for the post. I still can't believe that the mechanic said " leave it in there".

 

[Bifmalibu]

Slap that mechanic and take tyour business elsewhere....

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[Hookin'up]

I remember your old post, some said leave it some said get it out, I said it would be in the back of your mind
everytime you used it and by the looks of it, it was, enough so that you pulled it down and got rid of it,
now will you not only sleep better, you'll fish better, and you will not be looking for a new kicker either.
glad you got it out. now get it back together and go catch some fish!!!

 

[Sharphooks]

Hey gidyup, ya, that piece of pick-up tube sloshing around in there was like a freaking pea beneath my mattress all summer---just after it happened, and before deciding to leave it there and run the kicker, I boiled a section of the pick-up tube in hot water to see how it would behave. It didn't deform or melt so that somehow gave me this false sense of security that all would be well. All summer I ran her, out of P. Hardy, McNeil, Uke and Bamfield. It was a dumb-butt thing to do: I never took into consideration the corrosive effects that hot oil would have on the hose in conjunction with vibration and intense heat for long periods of time.

I should have taken a picture of the screen in the oil pick-up tube: not a pretty sight. Today I'm going to take a dremel and cut open the oil filter just to see what the paper looks like. An education for sure!

The guy who helped me pull the head said: "hey, engines have a soul. you have to treat them with respect"

Truer words were never said--when I think of how many times they've saved my skinny arse....

Ten minutes out of McNeil this summer I hit a log in the fog with my BF150, bad enough to mushroom two flukes and cause really bad vibration. So i was forced to shut her down.

The BF9.9 kicker took me across Johnstone Straits in pea-soup fog, and then another 10 miles into the Broughtons before I had a chance to change-out the prop on the main. All that with 8" of plastic tube exploding into splinters in her oil pan......

Pardon me while I go say a few Hail Mary's down on the linoleum of my soul....