I have a telescoping magnet and I tried to reach it, to no avail. It looks like it's at the very bottom. It is telescopic but it doesn't flex. I can try the flexing one as the last resort but I have doubts.
I am in over my head on this Subaru Legacy timing belt/crankshaft seal project, I am so p1ssed off right now, at myself for the most part, that I am just considering putting the thing on Ebay or Craiglist (and losing tons of tokens on it).
Or maybe I will just grind my teeth for a while, take a deep breath and remove the engine. I did remove the engine on a Subaru Loyale a few years ago. But it took me about 2 weeks to do that, working a few hours every day. Putting it back together is the big question.