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ok i have a major problem. stupidly self inflicted.

I was cleaning around the spark plug holes before a did a valve check and i put pieces of toilet paper in the holes to block them from getting sand and grit in them. there was quiet a bit of it around the holes. so a large bit of toilet paper ( a whole square) slipped into one of the spark plug holes into the cylinder!!!

what do i do? i have no idea how to get it back out again!?

im in Mandoza Argentina.... and need to get on the road tomorrow.. (long story)

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im thinking it will just be burnt to smithereens on the first few strokes and exhuasted?
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Personally I'd just fire it up, it was just an ordinary little square of toilet paper right?

Although if you could get it out with tweezers, may not be a bad idea?
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think im just going to fire it up. i cant see it with a torch. at the moment waitingon a friend to return so he can spin the back wheel while i line up TDC and feel for the compression stroke..

thanks for the advice
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Earth the spark plug and turn the engine over on the e-start, might get blown out through the plug hole?
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Earth the spark plug and turn the engine over on the e-start, might get blown out through the plug hole?

Not a bad idea, or get the cylinder on TDC and get a small length of something like a screwdriver and put grease on it and hope the toilet paper 'sticks' to it, but be very careful.
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its waiting on TDC at the moment for the valve check. just had to do a quick run to the vinyards with some friends :-S a little tipsy now, seems like a good time to get it over with. will try and fish it out first. if not just pressing the button
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As with most people that don't post a response I always assume that no news is good news... and my bet is that the toilet paper just burnt and disintegrated on running the bike.

It would have been a completely different story if a metal object or material or other foreign object made its way into the cylinder head... I think the moral here is to take (EXTRA) care when cleaning the bike and removing sparkplugs.
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