Tools that you've dropped in the engine bay of your truck.

[blk00z28]

I know everyone's done it, dropped someting in the engine bay and couldnt find it for a few min's or hours or even a day or two. Or not at all even. Whats some of the things you've done this with.

I dropped a socket down onto the intake once. I couldnt find it for at least a good 30 min. I had to move everything out of the way to find it too.

I know someone has a story about a Maglight.

 

[Timbo]

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I don't think I've had this problem at all with my Ty. It has no inner fenders, and it's pretty bare in the engine bay. I did lose a 10mm wrench in a Jetta VR6 while installing a cold air intake. It never hit the floor, and after pulling the skid plates off and searching for a while, we put everything back together and took it for a test-drive. That wrench never showed up.

 

[jjorgensen52]

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I lost a socket in a Geo Prizm ( ) ... It did show up, later when we were cleaning it up a little to sell it

 

[syclonekid43]

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i lost a few sockets. and what not.
the best was. just got done putting the front end on the sy after it got hit. lost a screw driver somewhere in the engine bay. looked for a few minutes. didnt see it so i said screw it. fired her up. let it idle for about 5 minutes. backed it out of the shop at idle. ran for about 10 minutes. closed the hood. jumped in the truck. put it in drive. hit the gas. and i hear something shatter under the hood. i knew i found my screw driver. i open the hood. the handle got busted into a 100 pieces. found the metal piece. and also a big hole in my 15 minute old upper fan shroud. im lucky i didnt put a hole in the rad, but oh well sh*t happens.

 

[ThaJokr]

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When i was changing out the ignition module I dropped the socket into the back of the engine bay twice before i actually lost it. To bad the job wasn't done so I had to go buy a new one. Then I lost that one so I had to dig through the entire engine bay, 20 minutes latter I found there hiding place and found both of them.

 

[tippmann243]

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i lost a socket in a 91 noma doing a tune up and i found the socket about 6 months later while removing the tranny

 

[myclone]

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There are still a couple 15mm sockets in 614s frame from pulling the crossmember for trans R&R. I learned to tape them onto the end of the extension after buying a replacements. As a side note they should roll out after a 15lb launch or two....I think.

 

[SonomaGTlover]

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I think a couple guys here may remember a TORX BIT that I dropped down the intake runner on my SoGT at NATS '05. I finished installing the engine literally the DAY before I left home. I started it for the first time the following morning to load it ont he trailer. When I finally got to NATS after the worst 250 mile trip in my life, I backed it off the trailer and began trouble shooting a serious miss. I was already frustrated with the fact that I probably wasn't going to be able to run it, then I dropped it trying to adjust the fuel regulator. Yes, on the GT it's inside the plenum so I had it all apart. Anyway, thanks to a fellow SY/TY'er we finally retreived it and I made a few passes. I still owe Jason big thanks for that, saved my day... and probably the trip.

 

[dgoodhue]

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The only socket I had a real hard time find was a 8mm socket that end up in the CCHE frame, it took me two hours to find it. I knew that I had heard it hit the fan and fan shroud.... I have lost about 8-12 for extendend periods of time in my Corvette, probably recovered half of them. One recently I dropped a socket down down by the battery. I had to pulled off some body panel (rocker and side gill) I found 2 other sockets and a extension. The were all my tools and I must have lost them 10 years ago :lol:

 

[Jersey 91/93]

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After I started pulling apart the front end of my Ty after the accident, I found a 10 lb. "magnet on a stick" under the radiator but inside the core support. It looked like it had been there for at least 6 years. I had only owned the truck for about a month when I found it.

 

[Merk]

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When my truck was apart,

I managed to get a nice ratchet stuck in the front half of my frame.

 

[warmpancakes]

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I never lost any did find a snap on 14MM socket that belonged to the former owner, It had his initials engraved into it. It has since been returned to him. I have found tools in every car I have ever bough even some that were " installed" at the factory

 

[xheat99]

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When my Dad and I bought our 72' Chevy project truck after we drove it home and started tearing the engine apart, we found 3 wrenches in the engine bay. Good start to a tool set :rotf: .

 

[sy]

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I lost a whole tree of torq bits in my fiance's Saturn. That car has so many things wrong with it, it distracts me. Did not find them til the next summer. By then they were rusty as hell. I was wondering why every time I checked her oil and tried to shut her hood it was dificult...cause they were right in front of my face. they had rusted so bad they blended in with the rest of the crappy saturn engine bay. I laughed for about minute then realized they were all rusted solid to the tree.

Needles to say I am much better at keeping track of my tools. And when we get married she is dumping that saturn and getting somthing that does not suck. She just does not know it yet.

 

[NecroWolf]

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i guess this counts, i was doing a tune up on the ty and lost the spark plug somewhere and have yet to see it to this day three months later

 

[attackdog]

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I lost a 10mm socket years ago in my truck and still haven't found it??? Oh well!!

 

[SpoolingTurbo6]

I've still got a 9/16 socket in the frame rail from doing a motor hold down:rotf:

 

[midnightbluS10]

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I've lost quite a few sockets and open end wrenches in the three s-series trucks I've had. Never to be found again.

 

[gkrcr882]

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Idk if this counts, but I did loose a 10MM socket in the engine bay of our Olds. Having the 3.8, there isnt any room to get a hand in anywhere:tdown:

 

[AUSyTyIN]

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I lost a fair number of tools while doing the motor swap in the Bomni. Recoverd all of the (I think). The bitch ones were the sockets that rolled down the "unibody frame" and get wedged between that and the bottom of the firewall.

Honestly though, I think I have left more skin in my vehicles than tools :tup: