nightmare day
 

Decided to clean the throttle body today and when removing it, the bit tool i was using fell into the bell housing.
What's the best way to get it out????

this is where I think it went in, and I can now see a silver score mark where the bit must be rubbing off the rust.

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get one of those flexible arm magnets and poke around till it sticks on the end, but without seeing the hole it fell into thats just a best guess

It's either bouncing or stuck next to something that is moving.

Pull the transmission, if a flexi magnet won't reach it. If it catches the torque converter at 3,000 rpm, it'll be sent through the casing.

I had the same with a 10mm nut in an Audi 100. Smashed a hole through the transmission.

It's been bouncing about for a while and by the sound of it, there isn't much left of the bit left