Well, here's how royally screwed I currently am. While drilling out more of the center of the glow plug, the drill suddenly moved inward about 1/2". Right after that, the outer shaft of the glow plug started to spin in the head and just came right out when I removed the drill bit.
However, the center element had actually come loose and had moved forward.......the sudden movement I got in the drill.....and that 1" or so of electrode tip is now down in the head, inside that last bit of oriface that it would normally protrude through.
It's not attracted to a magnet enough for my pencil magnet to drag it out. I duct taped some 1/4" diameter fuel hose into my shop vac, but couldn't suck it out. Did a test of putting a drop of super glue on back end of a 4" long drill bit and tried to glue that to the electrode of another glow plug....it wouldn't stick.
Anyone have some advice? I thought about cranking the engine over and maybe compression would force it out. But I'm worried that it might fall into the engine. I've pushed gently on it, and it appears to have bottomed out on whatever there is of the pre-combustion chamber. I also thought about removing the injector and using compressed air to blast it out. But the injectors are about 8" long (or look that way) and so it looks like that'll take a special deep socket.
This is so f
cked.
Here's a shot of how far off I got with the drill. I should have been inside the center of that bullseye, instead, you can see how I was off at about 1 o'clock. @#$%!!!!
