Quick question:

As I was placing the little screw on the underside of the hood to fasten the stick on hood pin cables, it dropped out of my hand into the engine bay. I am unable to locate it. Does anyone feel this could damage something as the engine is running? It ran fine when I started itjust to warm it up. Or will it find its way out onto the ground most likely?

 

+1.

 

It'll likely fall out if it hasn't already. BTW did you look on the ground? Sometimes I've thought it was in the engine bay but really fell through. If not, then it's probably on top of the bottom cover of the lower grille, lots of stuff gets cought there. Sometimes using a pot magnet on a stick can pick up all sorts of things down there. Either way I don't expect it to cause and damage.

 

It will prolly make it to the ground but I would want to find it myself. Try a magnetic pickup.

 

+1 to everything said here. It may be a little over board, but when you are working on hardware stuff like this it helps if you puta white rag or something that will make any part that falls through easy to see.

 

As long as nothing was exposed ie- intake manifold off- you should be fine.

 

I think that you would have to try pretty hard to "drop" a screw into a modern engine bay into a place that will cause damage, as long as nothing was dismantled and no caps or covers were removed.

 

i dropped a screw once too and could not find it for the life of me... i finally found it in the fan compartment... its hard to look in there but i bet its there