part fell off when opening valve cover
 

was changing cam sensor today and when I went to lift valve cover this fell out of it .anybody know what this is. Maybe some kind spacer I'm not sure any help appreciated...
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What year and engine?

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it is a 2003 civic ex 1.7 with 385000 miles i lifted valve cover off and this came from some where

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First guess would be a bushing from a coil pack where the single 10mm bolt goes through the plastic tab on the coil.

Love mysteries..

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Hope you are right that would be great going to check that out as soon as I get back to the house.. thanks

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nice mileage!

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Yeah I look at a coil pack online I can see where that bushing is man that is great news I thought it had something to do with the motor (:

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I checked all the coils they were still in the coils are these things in the motor are there round things between the valves on cam something in there I can't tell if it's or if it's a solid piece it looks the same width as in motor just kind of weird because I was picking valve cover up when it fell off you would have thought it would have been down in the motor not inside the valve cover

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Looks kinda like a part of the valve stem area or something

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must been a spacer from somewhere car is running as normal now, hopefully get another 100,000 (.