Ooops ... foreign body fallen into sump

The dipstick funnel had cracked on my Clipper, it had become very brittle after 20 years of heat/cold. I bought a new one for a couple of quid and finally got round to replacing it this evening.

Yanked the bottom half of the broken one off, but this still left a centimetre of inner sleeve sat inside the dipstick tube. I scratched my head thinking  how to get it out when I went into my fishing tackle box and grabbed a hook remover. Latched this to the bottom of the orange sleeve, and gradually began to slide it out. Just as it was about to fly out it broke into a number of pieces, it was very brittle as I said. Most of it flew out, but a piece about 5mm square dropped back into the dipstick hole and slid down into the sump.

Should I panic?

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i think you should be alright

change the oil and see if it come out

if not take the sump off and remove it, not a big job to do, new gasket and oil

could be a chance to do a little service, oil, filter

Aye not a bad job at all, you be careful not to round the sump bolts and mine were a bit cheesy...washing up bowl at the ready eh!

dont worry, the pickup on the pump will catch it. unless its uber fine it wont get past it. just about every car ive had sump off has had bits of funnel in the pickup

Thanks for that rubjonny. I think I will risk it for a while, and get an oil change/service soon.