Found this mystery traveler in the sump of one of my twin spark engines.
For the life of me I cannot identify it as any part belonging to the engine. It is approximately 15mm long and about 6 mm thick.
Anyone know what this sucker is ?
Is it solid?
It is wierd!
It's not a crank oilway plug is it ? They get a groove along the back like that sometimes when staked in. 6-7mm dia I think. Aluminium?
Aiken beat me too it. That's what I was thinking it may be with one end having been staked. What's the metal?
Spot on guys. It's an oil gallery plug in the crankshaft.
I didn't suspect that because the second engine has crankshaft with allen key plugs in it and at the stage of posting I didn't check the other cranshaft as I felt it was simply a foreign object that fell into the sump.
Cheers.