Recently I gave my car to a mechanic so he could do some work on it but he gave it to me with a bigger problem. He told me he had dropped a screw into the engine and couldn't get it out. My question is if I could just take the engine apart and take out the screw or do I have to rebuild the engine?

 

Sounds like you Mechanic Should be paying to have it done. If you ran the engine after the screw was dropped into the engine, you may have a rebuild on your hand. If it was dropped into the rotor chambers, the screw could score up the inside of the housing, break an apex seal.

 

I don't see what your problem is here.
In fact, I don't understand why he gave it back to you at all.

Mechanics make mistakes, being only human and all, but real ones just go ahead and fix them, they certainly DO NOT leave them as is and tell the customer "Oopsie!".

He has a problem...make him fix it.

 

ding ding ding we have a winner


but besides that where exactly did he drop the screw??

 

no kidding, what kind of lousy mechanic drops a screw into your engine abd gives you the car back like that?.... I guess I answered my own question.

Take it back and make him fish it out somehow. I dont care if he has to tear it down to a short block, pull it and shake the srew out. It's HIS problem.

 

The thing is that I met the mechanic through one of my rotary friends who had told me that he knew how to work on 7's. I own a restaurant so its not that easy to have time left over through out the day so I took the car to the mechanics house so he could work on it that way I wouldn't have to wait in line at any of the shops here in Miami. I went to pick the car up 3 hours later and he told me that a screw fell down into the lower intake manfold but he didn't notice until he went to turn on the car that the engine just locked up. After that he told me that he could take it out but had to charge me so instead of breaking his face I towed the car home cause I had no proof of any work he had done to the car. Thats the story guys but anyways thanks for your help.

 

The engine locked? Sorry, but it's trashed.

If a screw fell into the intake, at least one rotor and housing is totalled.