I hate when i lose a tool.

[JamieK]

Not exactly a lost tool, but I left a socket and rachet on the front pulley bolt of a power steering pump once. I remembered it whan I cranked the car and heard the rachet freewheeling. Good thing the rachet wasn't set for the other direction.

I did find a nice SnapOn wrench on a brake bleeder screw. The tech I worked with remembered leaving it on the car several months before.

Jamie

 

[babzog]

Lost the lugnut key for my Civic.. left it on the wheel. Didn't notice till I got home from roadtesting the car and was putting the tools away. $20 lesson learned.

Lost a pair of wire snips in the wall behind my power panel. Arm just isn't long enough to reach but they'll come out of hiding one day.

 

[Garage_Mahal]

I lost my boss's ViseGrip in a customer car. Found it a few months later when the customer was at the pumps and asked to have the oil checked. There was a pocket in the cowling that kept it from falling from the car. Boss was none to happy when I showed it to him, but he hadn't even realized it was gone. (He had shifted into managing the shop and rarely worked on cars anymore.) If I'd have been a smarter kid, I'd have snuck it into his box and played innocent.

 

[Nealcrenshaw]

My problem is that i sometimes bring my tools inside and my 7 year old daughter seems to make them her toys. Even though she has a room full of toys to play with.

 

[krusty the clown]

My problem is that i sometimes bring my tools inside and my 7 year old daughter seems to make them her toys. Even though she has a room full of toys to play with.

sound's like my kind kid..............she just needs to know to put them back so she gan help dad work next time. when my daughter was 5 she was my official brake bleeding buddy.

 

[Nealcrenshaw]

One thing though is when i go and look for it after assuring myself of where i left it,i go and ask her 'Did you see daddy's said tool' she seems to go to a mystical place and retrieves them.

 

[krusty the clown]

One thing though is when i go and look for it after assuring myself of where i left it,i go and ask her 'Did you see daddy's said tool' she seems to go to a mystical place and retrieves them.

then you have done a great job as a parent.................most kids would deny they ever saw it!

 

[Nealcrenshaw]

I try to be,it does take lots of restraint.

 

[Mr.Nutcase]

I lost a 1/4 extention, 6 in snap on..... still can not find it..

I just found it.......... Guess where it was?
In the trunk of my car......

 

[marcusicp]

I just found it.......... Guess where it was?
In the trunk of my car......

I just laughed a little when I read this and then looked at the dates of the posts. Glad you found it!

 

[KCarGuy]

My Niece drove her car all the way from Peoria to Downers Grove, only to find a Matco Angle Grinder under her hood. It was there from the last time she had work done on it...a week earlier!
So I got me a new one!
Then I stopped at My son's loft in the City and someone left a pair od ViseGrips in the grass by the Gate.
So I got me a new one!
This all may seem unfair, but it all evens out down the road...since someone stole all my tools out of my Parents garage years-years ago, and someone stole my car (and everything in the trunk) years ago.
So I am due yet.

 

[nate379]

Lost a 1/2" wrench one day. I JUST had the thing right?

Couple days later I am doing wash and hear BANG BANG BANG BANG in the dryer. Was the wrench!

Found a 9/16" socket in my yard yesterday. I didn't even know I lost it and no idea how it got there!

Lost a 24" adjustable wrench a few days ago and found it last night to. I set it on top of the boiler in the garage. One of those deals ran to grab the phone or someone came in and just set it down wherever.

 

[moronmountain]

Uggg, bad memories. When I was putting the 3.3L together, I was putting THE LAST SCREW in that holds the injectors in the throttle body. Hmm, I should stuff this with rags. Nah, just get it done. Yep, dropped it. Pull throttle body, use magnet, nothing. Pull intake, find nothing. Goody...pull balancer, timing belt cover, timing belt. Pull driver's head, find nothing. Pull passenger head, find it.

I just wanted to sit down and cry.

Well there is one worse than that. Same basic scenario you just described, but the tool was NOT inside the motor. Take everything apart only to find the tool in your pocket.....................

 

[jethro29]

thank god i'm not the only one that feels that way,that's why i love this place other people don't understand "us" or our addiction.and every time i loose a tool it usually turns up somewhere stupid AFTER i've replaced it.well you can never have to many tools.i'll actually not be able to go to sleep that night due to wondering were my tool is.

 

[jethro29]

get a long magnet and go fishing,no tools should be left behind.lol