it was a beautiful sunday. had the idea to change the oil in my G35. Everything was going fine until the silver foil sealer thing that appears when you unscrew the top of a new five quart oil container decided to ruin my day. Saw it go right down the funnel into the engine. About the size of a nickel. I tried flushing it out of the drain plug whole with about 10 more quarts of oil, but did not see it again. I really do not want to drop the pan or remove valve cover (never done that) and am wondering what my options are. Any suggestions? any help would be very thankful.

by the way....please stop laughing.

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2005 g35 coupe

 

Man, that sucks big time. The only thing I can think of is pull the valve cover off. It should be somewhere accesible once you pull the cover off. I really hope you did not start your engine, if you did it could be anywhere in that engine.... I have seen what Foreign objects can do in places where they should not be. Good luck with that.. GG