'lost' tool funny one.

[SPIKER]

couple things I have found, and lost a few as well.

one funniest was I was leaving McConnell AFB KS. cica 89 heading to Edwards AFB had my 74 Merc Cougar souped up and towing 2K of my stuff about 40 miles in (left at 930 am 90F) So I had AC condenser coil still in front of the radiator and she was getting pretty hot with the extra weight out back so I decided to pull the coil out of front of the radiator. few bolts and it was off, & chucked in the trailer out back. slammed the hood and off I went without issue. well a year later I was pulling the front end off for a engine cam intake heads swap. could not find my Craftsman 3/8" ratchet 6" extension and 7/16" had looked for months.

found it laying under the radiator handing ratchet on one side socket & extension on other side balanced! Yep all way from KS through to southern ca. and probably 10K miles in CA.


Bought a escort EXP which has a idle issue, looking through it found a vacuum line that didnt look right, I pulled it out and found a 6" 1/4" drive extension in the line...

Similar bought a Tempo had a rattle in the front end, got to looking found a box end wrench on a brake line.

My ford truck, found a nice snap on spark plug socket on the center crossover.


My Uncle had a Studebaker HAWK. Straight 6 in it, Bought NEW and after 120K they pulled it apart for a engine rebuild. yep was running as a 5 cyl. there was no rod ever installed on one of the pistons. it was seized half way up, on top of the piston when they cleaned it up said how well did this run and a big ? mark lol...

in military my room mate was working on his dodge 318, put it back together and after a few months it started loosing oil pressure. we tore it back down and found someone left a rag in the intake valley all tore up by lifters and had strings all wrapped up in the cam shaft. strings were everywhere it seemed. after we got it cleaned up and back together wipped up my hands and tossed the rag into the vally and said hey grab the intake, for some reason he didnt think that was funny?

Mark

 

[Soundguy]

My old boss used to be a service manager at a ford dealership in the 70's. He said a older woman brought her Lincoln in a few days after she bought it new with a rattle coming from the left rear tire. He said they were like "Great, a senile old lady hearing stuff." So one of the tech's take it for a ride and sure enough it has a rattle in the left rear tire area. The tear the rear brakes apart and think they find the problem and send her on her way. Next day she is back with same problem. This time they think its the hubcap. Week later the lady's husband brings it back and says it still isn't fixed and is getting upset. Now Larry(the service manager) determine to find the problem gets in the trunk and rides around while one of the guys drive it around. Sure enough rattle coming from the left rear tire area. They are stumped after many attempts to find the obnoxious rattle. Conversation takes place between Ford and the dealership for several months. Ford ends up saying its normal and its just too bad. Guy who bought the car. although upset, accepts it for what it is. About a year later the car is in getting serviced and while parked in the lot a stick shift truck left out of gear rolls down the ramp in front of the shop and caves in the quarter panel of the Lincoln. Obligated to fix it, the body man cuts the rear quarter panel of the car to install a new one. On the inside of a boxed in area of the rear quarter panel brace, hanging by a wire, is a oem lug wrench with a note taped to it. The note said "YOU FINALLY FOUND ME!"

i've heard of other easter eggs like that. a pack of nuts taped to something and swinging. etc..

mean people....

 

[sixdogs]

i've heard of other easter eggs like that. a pack of nuts taped to something and swinging. etc..

mean people....

I saw some photos of such mischief on a hot rod site once. Factory guys would leave a wrench, and sometimes a note to the eventual locator. I saw photos of wenches welded to the frame rails. Who does this type of stuff?

 

[Soundguy]

mean people...

 

[s78wingrider]

A couple tools I lost, later on turned up in used cars my Daughter's had bought, exact same tool, probably not mine, but who knows :confused2: :thumbsup:

 

[oliver28472]

I have vice grips with "Ramirez" engraved on them. Found in my new '81 F-150 Custom when I took the driver door panel off to install speakers. Still have the truck too.

 

[Short Game]

Who does this type of stuff?

Short-timers.

Funny you'd mention that. A broken head bolt required the replacement of the headgasket the the Cummins unit I drive at work. The found half of a wrench laying in the head. No one seems to know where it came from. Riiiiiight......

Obviously, it was in the fuel.

 

[Short Game]

I know a talented shipwright. Once he spent his whole morning obsessively looking for his pencil. He'd just used it, and so, looked everywhere he had, or maybe even hadn't, been in his big shop. After checking every pocket and behind both ears about a hundred times, as well as everywhere else, and having blown the whole morning searching, getting nothing done, he gave up.

His shop is across the street from the house. Every day when he comes in for lunch, he enters through the basement door, changes out of his work clothes and goes up the stairs to eat lunch with his elderly mother. This day, when he went into the basement bathroom to wash up, he looked in the mirror, and there, stuck transversely through his beard, was the missing pencil.

Years later, he blew ten more minutes telling me the story.

 

[catdozer]

Few weeks ago helping a buddy on his new summer lake home we were working on the wiring down stairs and was talking about his new Droid (expensive) phone and took it out to show off the level app and placed it by the wall (cinder block wall) well it showed very level but lost his grip and it fell down the wall, all 9 ft. We chipped and pulled out close to 8 blocks looking for the phone, never found it but we can hear it when you call it.

 

[k0ua]

Few weeks ago helping a buddy on his new summer lake home we were working on the wiring down stairs and was talking about his new Droid (expensive) phone and took it out to show off the level app and placed it by the wall (cinder block wall) well it showed very level but lost his grip and it fell down the wall, all 9 ft. We chipped and pulled out close to 8 blocks looking for the phone, never found it but we can hear it when you call it.

Too bad a droid razor is a nice phone too... That will teach him to brag

James K0UA