RULE # 1 ALWAYS inspect machine shop work !!!! http://stevesnovasite.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=9749 I picked up my heads form the shop after some winter tune up work. After I flushed them and bolted them down I was getting ready to install the valve train. Then I noticed this little UFO looking thing hinding next to a valve. It was stuck between a coil and seat but popped out easily with a pair of needle nose pliers. Any idea what it is? http://stevesnovasite.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=9750

Looks like a piece of media from a parts tumbler for cleaning valves etc.

Can't see the second photo real well but it looks to me like a "drill point" What you would get after you drilled through a piece of metal.

Jeff

Originally posted by jpete:
Can't see the second photo real well but it looks to me like a "drill point" What you would get after you drilled through a piece of metal.

Jeff Thats what I though until I pulled it out, its solid and the top matches the bottom, like a miniture of saturn with its rings.

Roger,
Carl called it correctly, is a piece of the tumbling media out of the valve cleaning tumbler.
YOu sure you don't wnat to drive over the bridge for your machine work smile.gif

Originally posted by BillK:
Roger,
Carl called it correctly, is a piece of the tumbling media out of the valve cleaning tumbler.
YOu sure you don't wnat to drive over the bridge for your machine work smile.gif Next time, Im still saving for that 540 short block.

Cool, learn something every day!

I have seen and handled small ceramic media but never anything that looked like that???

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