Missing wrench...found

'68 383 Charger · Sep 17, 2012

There I was, laying on my back under my charger changing the rear main seal with the engine in the car. I moved my light around and it reflected off something shiny by the left front tire. I roll the creeper that way, and what do I see? a 3/4 Craftsman wrench wedged against the upper control arms and the mount. It was wedged so tight I had to cut the wrench with a cut-off wheel to get it out. A couple of weeks earlier I had gotten a front end alignment.

So, today I took said wrench back into the tire shop and handed it to the manager along with the pictures I took of it jammed into my suspension. The look on his face was priceless. The wrench was even marked with their marking for some form of tool control. I got 100% refund on that alignment, a free alignment to verify everything is ok, and the satisfaction of knowing everyone in that full waiting room knew I had to cut their wrench out of my car.

Cranky · Sep 17, 2012

Pulled the radiator from a car that I had for years and found a 12" long 3/8" extension sitting under it...heck, I've found lots of tools in cars purchased from others.

pabster · Sep 17, 2012

Great shop. "Whoops! I dropped my wrench! Where did it go? Oh well. It'll turn up..."

Sounds like those stories you hear about people who get operating instruments left inside of them after a trip to the hospital.

tpodwdog · Sep 17, 2012

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440roadrunner · Sep 17, 2012

My first, car, 57 chev. Crawled under there one day, and there are tabs on the very bottom of the front fenders to bolt onto the lower part of the fender. Someone had lost? a bolt and had clamped a perfectly good pair of vise grips on there. They were a little rusty, but still worked!!!

The other day I dragged home a 67 Dart body. I looked up at the rear shocks, and there on the top bolt was one of those double ended impact sockets, VERY rusty. It had BEEN there for a long time.

Cranky · Sep 17, 2012

In the mid 70's, I bought a 67 Dart and a 67 Barracuda parts car to help fix up the Dart. Then I bought a repo 70 Duster 340 car with the engine and trans gone but still had the 8 3/4 in it so in the Dart the rear end went. Then I noticed that the complete interior from the Duster would probably fit the Dart and it did! Buckets and all went in. Fast forward several years when I parted the Dart and when I pulled the buckets out, one fell over and the sun caught something bright. It was a clear sandwich baggie with a good ounce of brown pot in it! I had been driving that car for years and driving it hard. The rear had a 3.91 gear and it would scream. Once I even got a ticket for excessive noise by spinning the tires. This was when you could spend 2 years in jail for possession of pot. Man, from then on, I go over ALL used cars with a fine tooth comb before driving them!

snakeyes · Sep 17, 2012

you wouldn`t believe all the tools an other items that I`ve found over the years in cars , plus when we have units at the plant, that have rattles or humps in the floor ,the stuff the the people left in them from the line all my stuff now :blob1::blob1::hello2::hello2::headbang::headbang:

67 coronet · Sep 17, 2012

how about leaving a wheel loose that flies off after driving a few blocks.fired a couple techs over that ****.:angry9:

snakeyes · Sep 17, 2012

when I worked at a dealer a teach did a lube oil and filter had not put the oil in it yet and went to lunch ,it was still in the air on the lift service writter

came by thought it was done gave it to the customer and guess what ,came back in on a flat bed ,they put new motor for the guy

dfarmercse · Sep 17, 2012

When I cut the 1/4s off found a old socket and a couple of wrenches.

Dave F

daredevil · Sep 17, 2012

pabster said:
Great shop. "Whoops! I dropped my wrench! Where did it go? Oh well. It'll turn up..."

Sounds like those stories you hear about people who get operating instruments left inside of them after a trip to the hospital.

Be glad they arent airplane mechanics. I cringe everytime a jet flies directly over me waiting on something to fall off.

'68 383 Charger · Sep 17, 2012

Daredevil,
that is why i was so pissed off. I'm an aircraft maintenance chief, I've dealt with tool control and accountability for almost 24 years

69clone · Sep 17, 2012

Cranky said:
In the mid 70's, I bought a 67 Dart and a 67 Barracuda parts car to help fix up the Dart. Then I bought a repo 70 Duster 340 car with the engine and trans gone but still had the 8 3/4 in it so in the Dart the rear end went. Then I noticed that the complete interior from the Duster would probably fit the Dart and it did! Buckets and all went in. Fast forward several years when I parted the Dart and when I pulled the buckets out, one fell over and the sun caught something bright. It was a clear sandwich baggie with a good ounce of brown pot in it! I had been driving that car for years and driving it hard. The rear had a 3.91 gear and it would scream. Once I even got a ticket for excessive noise by spinning the tires. This was when you could spend 2 years in jail for possession of pot. Man, from then on, I go over ALL used cars with a fine tooth comb before driving them!

So how did you dispose of the evidence? :icon_weed::icon_weed:

MarPar · Sep 17, 2012

69clone said:
So how did you dispose of the evidence? :icon_weed::icon_weed:

lol

67 coronet · Sep 17, 2012

69clone said:
So how did you dispose of the evidence? :icon_weed::icon_weed:

god,could you imagine how stale that stuff would be?

Meep-Meep · Sep 17, 2012

I once lost a wrench while working on my old 69 Charger. It was a 318 car and I was probably loosening the distributor clamp and the wrench fell behind the engine but didn't hit the ground. I pretty much moved on and while doing something several months later (probably installing headers because I was on a creeper) I slid under the tranny and that same wrench fell on my chest.

Budnicks · Sep 17, 2012

I purchased a 1973 Jag XKE V-12, British Racing Green, Black convertible top & interior, with "true knock off hubbs" w/wire spoke wheels, the brass hammer used to take off & put the knock offs back on, was under a vent cowl screen cover, in the lower driverside cowl area, I didn't have a clue how it would have gotten there unless, someone had the cowl vent screens off, left the hammer in the vent cowl area, put the vent screen back on, this was in the mid to late 1980's, I found out latter, when I polished the head of the hammer, the hammer is a Jaguar factory production line installation tool, it had the factory name & a tool cage ID# on it also, so I guess it was left in there, while they were building the car...

440roadrunner · Sep 17, 2012

Cranky said:
In the mid 70's, .............you could spend 2 years in jail for possession of pot. Man, from then on, I go over ALL used cars with a fine tooth comb before driving them!

One time a friend of mine, he and both sailors, and one of HIS friends pulled out a joint. I threatened to leave him right there on the freeway if he didn't get rid of it. He had a lot of trouble "getting it." I didn't need to lose my stripes, my car, and maybe go to the brig for something HE did.

Al K · Sep 17, 2012

Somewhere between the engine,the trans and the firewall is a long 1/4" drive extension. I watched it fall off the ratchet,but didn't "hear" where it landed. Looked under the car,grabbed a long magnet and checked the intake valley and every nook and crannie and whatever. Never found it. It's been three weeks and it still hasn't gone "ping" as it bounces off the underside going down the road.

HEMI-ITIS · Sep 17, 2012

67 coronet said:
god,could you imagine how stale that stuff would be?

Was it a 3 finger lid??:edgy:

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