I was replacing the black plastic piece you see here and when i took out the bolt that holds it in, the black pokey thing that is responsible for holding the fuel door closed retracted back into the body.

Anyone have ANY idea how I can pull that sucker out?

the bolt metal? Try the little magnet pole thingy. Its only like $2 at autozone.

Oh...sorry its late and didn't understand the post.

Can you fit anything in their?

if it fell INSIDE the fuel system i cant think of anything except to dismantle it and drain the tank, if im an idiot which is mostly true, you should be able to get it out with a SMALL tip screwdriver ( the ones that are bent 90 degrees on the tip ) sears should have em.

OKay......elaborate....What fell in plastic part or metal part? I dont think it fell in the fuel tank. DID it? Explain

No your fucked https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/violin.gif

hopefully its not small enough to clog anything in its way................. i was gunna suggest a lil net thing..... but i dont know how you're gunna get it in there

No nothing fell in the fuel tank.



If you look at your fuel door you'll see a black pen size tip that retracts on a spring, that's the mechanism responsible for holding yoru door closed.



That's the part that retracted itself into the car.



Well i just spent a solid hour and a half ripping the rear interior out and fixed it!!!!

Thats good to hear.....I knew what you were talking about from the start, but had no clue on how to help you out.

Was it easy to get at once you had the rear interior panels off?

Damn that sux's man. Would hate to have that happen to me. Glad you got it fixed thou.





-=RX-7 KID=-

teddy, the same thing happened to me when i was trying to adjust mine, cause it would stick in, and the door would not close for 3-4 days after i gto gas...



any way, the only thing you can do is be patient and get a coat hanger, and put a piece of DUM-DUM on it. the **** that it like tar on a sheet, and used to fill small air holes. it worked for me, but took like 30 minutes.....and try not to cuss to hard.....the car can hear you!!



lou

and i was gonna say take the interior panels out and reach it around the breather box back there, BUT you already did that , and now i sound like a dumbass.....

Thats a shitty deal.At least you fixed it.You have a nice FD there.CYM is beautiful. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/boink.gif

So if it is spring loaded how do you swap it with having it sring back into the body?

That's what I was thinking.. hope to see some nice cleaned up pics of her sometime.. :bigthumg:

Hey....you sound like a "dumb ass" https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/moon.gif

HAHA j/k......it's good to get the advice, seems like it's bound to happen to me some day also.



cheers

Shawn

sounds like a lot of work for a lil bity thing....... but then again a lot of people do that to shed a few lbs for their cars...... glad you found what you're lookin for though





beautiful yellow car :bigthumg: