Just as I was just about finished buttoning everything up after replacing the leaking gasket between the turbo and the manifold on my old RX7, I managed to drop a small nut down into the impeller. With that car, you practically have to disassemble everything on one side of the engine to get the turbo off, and I had visions of another 3 hours work to get it out. As I was going through every Anglo-Saxon expression I knew, my wife calmly suggested I use the shop vac to suck out the bit of hardware. A minute later, the nut was safely in the shop vac, and life was back to normal.

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1984 300TD