Dont you hate it when
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Drifting
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From: Miami, FL, USA
Dont you hate it when
You drop a nut or bolt from the engine bay and it lands inside the header collectors?
They are really hard to get out and if you just leave it in there, they make a horrible racket that makes it sound like you broke the valvetrain.
It once took 3 people with prybars and a 4 post lift to get one out of my headers!
We melted it with the torch when we got it out!
They are really hard to get out and if you just leave it in there, they make a horrible racket that makes it sound like you broke the valvetrain.
It once took 3 people with prybars and a 4 post lift to get one out of my headers!
We melted it with the torch when we got it out!
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Re: Dont you hate it when (GusBustamanteJr)
You just made me remember... I STILL have a spark plug "lost" between my starter and block. Remind me again in the spring, will ya? Good luck, and...
RACE ON!!!
RACE ON!!!
Le Mans Master
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Re: Dont you hate it when (GusBustamanteJr)
If I'm diddling around under the hood and it involves any loose smalll item, be it nut, bolt, or a three-pack of condoms it will happen that I will drop one of them and it will not fall through to the driveway or garage floow below, but rather, it will fall out of sight and make a funny clinking noise as it lodges firmly in some barely accessible crevice. I've come to accept it as one of the lesser known laws of the universe. Most commonly I won't even drop it from my hand so i get a fair chance of seeing WHERE it goes. Nope. It will be laying somewhere I palced it which I thought was a good place (on top of intake, radiator shroud, etc.) and I'll pull a move while concentrating on something else, dislodge it, and send it to the dark obscure regions of the lower engine bay.
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Re: Dont you hate it when (GusBustamanteJr)
I dropped my alternator power wire nut when putting it back on ... it's MIA. Had to find another nut to work on it. We'll see if i ever find the original one again, lol.
Burning Brakes
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From: Inland Empire CA
Re: Dont you hate it when (GusBustamanteJr)
Yeah, I don't know how many times that has happened, and then you waste time trying to find the little bugger. Although to date I've found every piece of hardware that I've dropped. Partly due to this...
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
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Re: Dont you hate it when (WickedC4)
Yeah, I don't know how many times that has happened, and then you waste time trying to find the little bugger. Although to date I've found every piece of hardware that I've dropped. Partly due to this...
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
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From: Everett WA
Re: Dont you hate it when (GlockLT4)
Yeah, I don't know how many times that has happened, and then you waste time trying to find the little bugger. Although to date I've found every piece of hardware that I've dropped. Partly due to this...
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
Haha, nice. I tried to use a crow bar with a harddrive magnet attached to it to get something once.... it got stuck to the block and it was SOOO hard to get
back off! :lolg: Those magnets are kissing STRONG!!! :lol:
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
Haha, nice. I tried to use a crow bar with a harddrive magnet attached to it to get something once.... it got stuck to the block and it was SOOO hard to get
back off! :lolg: Those magnets are kissing STRONG!!! :lol:
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Drifting
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From: Miami, FL, USA
Re: Dont you hate it when (NightRyder)
I have a decent magnet, but sometimes in the collectors, they have to come out the same way they came in through all those pipes twisting around each other.....you cant get there from here!
I hate losing time like that. I have something in there again, I can hear it, but I am not missing anything?????
I hate losing time like that. I have something in there again, I can hear it, but I am not missing anything?????
Drifting
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From: Bucks county Pa
Re: Dont you hate it when (GusBustamanteJr)
I too dropped the last plug too under the block. IT sucked. After jacking the block and using lights,magnets,and mirrors, it was a good old bent up coat hanger retrieved it. Good thing it was a old plug. but it was not a option to leave it.
Oh yea melting the header, sweet revenge! I had a big block pontiac in a buick regal. I tried to put headers on gave up. Took it to a guy who swore he could do it. He wasted 3 pair trying. The last pair he beat with a sledgehammer usin all kinds of nice language told me to take my car..with the manifolds back on. :lol:
Oh yea melting the header, sweet revenge! I had a big block pontiac in a buick regal. I tried to put headers on gave up. Took it to a guy who swore he could do it. He wasted 3 pair trying. The last pair he beat with a sledgehammer usin all kinds of nice language told me to take my car..with the manifolds back on. :lol:
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Re: Dont you hate it when (WickedC4)
Yeah, I don't know how many times that has happened, and then you waste time trying to find the little bugger. Although to date I've found every piece of hardware that I've dropped. Partly due to this...
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
:lol: That's my telescoping super magnet. It's way stronger than that, it can hold about 10lbs. No bolt or pesky nut will escape! :hurray:
Burning Brakes
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From: Inland Empire CA
Re: Dont you hate it when (rkessel)
Where'd you get thet thing?
But yeah like the others say... sometimes it's too strong. It will get stuck on the block or anything else with iron in it for that matter :lol:
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Re: Dont you hate it when (WickedC4)
:iagree: extending magnets are great! :cheers:
I picked one up at autozone for $2
Looks like a pen until you extend it out like an antenna. :thumbs:
I picked one up at autozone for $2
Looks like a pen until you extend it out like an antenna. :thumbs: