Don't you hate those black holes in the engine bay?

[BlackMetal]

We've all lost nuts and bolts before but yesterday I dropped the cap to my overflow tank and the damn thing vanished. Must be floating through a different dimension as we speak...

 

[DCVING 6]

I dropped one once down the front of the motor, vanished. Ends up it bounced off something, and rode the fuel return line all the way down to the last bend in the downpipe. It moved a good 4 feet!

 

[BlackMetal]

Haha that's awesome.

 

[Raymond Bunch]

I find stuff every once in a while from previous owners. However, just recently I lost an 9/16 socket and can not for my life find it:redface:

 

[ttypewe4jim]

I find stuff every once in a while from previous owners. However, just recently I lost an 9/16 socket and can not for my life find it:redface:

the front cross member is a good hiding place for tools like that on one of my friends car's we did a rack setup.... cut the cross member out and there was a open end wrench in there must have just been to big to work its way out

 

[dr_frankenstein]

i more than half of my 1/4" rachet socket set is in the fenders of my Luv.

A.j.

 

[86 TR]

I just changed spark plugs on my car and I dropped one down somewhere near the downpipe. The damn car must have ate it!:biggrin: I looked, used a magnet but still couldn't find it.

After taking the car for a drive I heard something bang off of the floorboard, my guess that was my spark plug.

 

[jhanson1750]

HAHA!!! My best was with a 95 camero. First the #7 plug BLEW out but I got "lucky" the threads on the aluminum head stripped to save the spark plug. Then while heli-coiling the head (still in the car) I dropped the new spark plug and hole-in-one it went down the exhaust pipe and slid under, across and rearward. I spent 2 1/2 hours with a magnet "pulling" it back around so I didn't have to cut on my freshly Jet-Hot coated pipes. I think the engine bay on any car that is being wrenched on can bend time and space!!!:biggrin: Jon Hanson

 

[BlackMetal]

I just changed spark plugs on my car and I dropped one down somewhere near the downpipe. The damn car must have ate it!:biggrin: I looked, used a magnet but still couldn't find it.

After taking the car for a drive I heard something bang off of the floorboard, my guess that was my spark plug.

Yeah that's exactly where my cap disappeared, somewhere around the downpipe and where the hard A/C line comes down.

I'm sure I'll find a few things when I finally back it out of the garage for the first time this year.

 

[dougie]

When I bought my 86 GN it had a generic oil fill cap. I had just purchased a stock replacement when I decided to detail the engine bay and wedged down in one of those holes was the original cap. I could see it but couldn't touch it. Probably why the PO just replaced it. I finally got it out with one of those long grabbers.

 

[Pronto]

I had a bolt bounce down the cross member and fall in the hole. That took me an hour to figure out it went in the hole. Very frustrating.

 

[salvageV6]

I lost the top of the can of denatured alky. today went between the battery and the bottom of the tray, not gonna get that one out easily with all the crap around there.

Luckily I had another can in recycling and just walked away, no cut hands on that sharp sheet metal. :smile:

I got a couple of 10mm sockets back when I broke the bolt into the block for the power steering pump, had everything off down to the head and found some really cool stuff I lost years ago. :biggrin:

 

[86george]

That front cross member is about the first place I look.Fished a lot of nuts,bolts and wrenchs out with a magnet.The worst I've done was drop a 6in cresent wrench down the exhaust on my sons Fbody Pontiac.Slid all the way into the gutted cat.I just left it.So the boy complained about a loud vibration.I told him I'd look at it.I cut the exhaust open and fished the wrench out with a magnet,spliced the exhaust back together and never told him what i'd done.

 

[BlackMetal]

That front cross member is about the first place I look.Fished a lot of nuts,bolts and wrenchs out with a magnet.The worst I've done was drop a 6in cresent wrench down the exhaust on my sons Fbody Pontiac.Slid all the way into the gutted cat.I just left it.So the boy complained about a loud vibration.I told him I'd look at it.I cut the exhaust open and fished the wrench out with a magnet,spliced the exhaust back together and never told him what i'd done.

That's a good one lol.

 

[wile87]

look in the lower front of your fender.

 

[turbojimmy]

I thought the Buick was bad, particularly the black hole that is the front cross member. But this "new" ('02) Trans Am I got is insane. The front bumper cover wraps around, underneath the nose and bolts up high on the underside. It's like a giant bucket that you can't see or get your hands into It's a perfect place to gather crap that you will never see again.

My first loss was one of the headlight bezel screws. I dropped it once and heard the reassuring sound of it bouncing off of the cardboard on the garage floor. I picked it up, tried to install it again, and heard the familiar sound of it bouncing off of metal, and then plastic. It's gone.

Jim