Lost Parts

[Bamboo]

I was flushing the cooling system in my 'cruiser today. When I was refilling the rad I bumped the rad cap..somewhere. For the love of god, I cannot find it. I'll go buy another tomorrow, but it really gives me the shits!!

 

Once when I was an apprentice I managed to "drop" my spark plug socket into the chassis rail of an ea falcon. if that car is still going (most unlikely as it is a ford) my socket is still in there. There was no way to get it out!!

 

So what have you dropped/knocked that made it to a place where no human could possibly put it?

[coln72]

When doing the head gasket on my old ED, a spanner slipped out of my old mans hand when it was just about finished. It went straight down one of the oil galleries and into the sump. The bloody thing didnt even touch the sides - nothing but net.

[Trev]

Done the radiator cap several times.

 

Tools a lot of times especially magnet sticks :jamie:

 

Lost a socket down in between the side of the block and the a/c bracket on a nissan RB once before, Would of cost more in time to get it out then what the socket was worth so it is still in there.

 

Pulling an engine out of the car and a nut went down the exhaust pipe, Pulled it apart and got it out.

 

Funniest one would be my mate came over in his 720 to put some fuel in it that I got out of my tank during the SOHC to DOHC conversion, He used the 2 piece flexi funnel I had and when he pulled the funnel out the top was in his hand and the bottom went into the tank, Still in there I believe.

[Evan G]

ive done that before and the funnel is still in the linfox fuel tank roaming around australia

[SLO-030]

One of the exhaust hangers on the system my ute used to have, had a hanger which was bolted to the chassis rail.

 

Had to go thru one side of the chassis rail to get to the bolt on the other side. As i was pulling the socket out of the rail it clipped the edge of the hole i was going in thru and popped off the extension. Still in the chassis somewhere.

 

I predict its along side where the passenger sits!

[greenmac80]

what about....

 

'what have you found in your chassis rail.???

 

lol the fellas chopped up the greenbeastie yesterday and found a golf ball in the chassis rail.

[orangeLJ]

I was doing the inlet gaskets on my VT and as I was doing the internal studs back up in the plenum, I managed to drop a nut straight down one of the inlets, straight into the head where it came to rest ontop of a closed inlet valve....

 

Bit of string and a magnet got it out in the end, but it f@$king scared me! if the valve was open, it might have ended up a head off job!

[LukeAE71]

My old man and I were working on my sisters 4AC AE82 of doom when we finally found a ratchet small enough to get into the space and then my dad subsequently let it go and drop.

 

It ended up being behind the headlight and he had to remove the headlight etc to get it back.

 

Funny when he test drove the car he just figured the bastard would fall out on the road and he could pick it up but to no avail :yes: :hmm: :hmm: ;)

[Taz_Rx]

Done the radiator cap several times.

 

Tools a lot of times especially magnet sticks :yes:

 

Lost a socket down in between the side of the block and the a/c bracket on a nissan RB once before, Would of cost more in time to get it out then what the socket was worth so it is still in there.

 

Pulling an engine out of the car and a nut went down the exhaust pipe, Pulled it apart and got it out.

 

Funniest one would be my mate came over in his 720 to put some fuel in it that I got out of my tank during the SOHC to DOHC conversion, He used the 2 piece flexi funnel I had and when he pulled the funnel out the top was in his hand and the bottom went into the tank, Still in there I believe.

 

We must have similarly bad luck Trev.

 

Firstly not a rad but an oil cap. Drove down to Hobart 200km with a female friend who wanted me to check her oil first. I topped it up and forgot to put the 710 cap back on. Arrived in hobart and realised what I'd done when the engine bay had like 2 litres of oil spread around it.

 

Dropped a nut down my exhaust whe trying to re-fit the dump pipe once. From the dump pipe back is 1 piece so it would have been a pain to remove the whole thing. Had to go fishing for half an hour with a magnet on a stick.

 

I haven't dropped anything into my fuel tank but I did remove the one out of dirt once to clean it out. Rinsed it out with some fuel and enptied it. Out cam a heap of sludge and a galvanised roofing nail! :hmm:

[Evan G]

at work i dropped my 10mm socket + 5mm allen key socket during a service, didnt land on the floor. spent ages looking for them.

 

cracked the shits reversed off the hoist, floored it up the hoist and slammed the brakes a couple of times and VOLA found them on the ground

 

:blinks:

[TommyGun]

I was pulling the stock head unit out of my barina the other day (Which, mind you is not fun) And after you get the actual unit out there's the metal case that needs to be pulled out as well, it has a torx screw in it and i managed to get the screwdriver in, only to have the torx bit fall out and disappear into the abyss that is the barina dash. I had a little feel around but didn't find it, oh well, it was the wrong size anyway =P

[towe001]

My bastard borrowers could fill a page and a half on the shut they've pulled on me

 

I've done the whole forgot to do up the oil cap thing after i'd done the oil change. Thought the motor sounded pretty good till i popped the hood....

 

 

Can't say it was a lost part but

http://forums.toymods.org.au/index.php?t=m...rt=0#msg_497733

 

 

And one for the borrowers - My old ae82 seca, pulled into servo for fuel did what i've always done and put the fuel cap on the spoiler, went in to pay and forgot all about the cap till i got home traced my way back to servo for cap and no luck in finding it so i bought a new one. A few weeks later i had to pull the back seat up and there was the old cap....

[Toy-Yoda[RL]]

I swapped out the coil on Fonkey ages ago, and took it for a quick test drive to make sure it worked well all the way through the rev range, took a left turn at the pub about a kilometer and a half from home and heard an enormous bang from the engine bay, engine kept running so I bailed home smartly.....

 

Had a look in the bay, couldn't see anything wrong, drove banshee's coon back to the pub and had a look around the corner, found the old coil sitting in the middle of the road with a huge dent in it, turns out I'd left it sitting on the brake fluid reservoir and it shook loose on the turn and I ran over it...... I never want to hear a noise like that again..... :blinks:

Edited May 11, 2010 by Toy-Yoda

[philbey]

Firstly not a rad but an oil cap. Drove down to Hobart 200km with a female friend who wanted me to check her oil first. I topped it up and forgot to put the 710 cap back on. Arrived in hobart and realised what I'd done when the engine bay had like 2 litres of oil spread around it.

 

Been there myself, but I only did 5 kms (CA18 turbo, there's a lobe directly under the cap) and it made a really really big mess.

 

Luckily the cap had slid off the head and wedged in the engine mount so I still had it!

 

I was pulling a bolt off my rocker cover just after I built the 5K and dropped it.... Searched for ages, I heard it hit metal thought it was either on the cross member or my jackstand but no.... it was the sump. Managed to drop it straight down the hole where the dizzy wasn't.

[7shades]

Built a KE70 once, and lost a girlfriend in it.

 

She and the KE70 both turned up a few weeks later with a blown head gasket.

 

I kept the KE70.