Where's my wrench!?

[Sam_Fear]

Been putting my motor back together - got it back in the truck Friday. Saturday I had to pull the trans back to fix the clutch yoke. Got the trans back together but can't find my 3/4" wrench. ANYWHERE! I have spent 3 hours the past 2 days just looking for that wrench. I know 100% it's not in the motor because I had all my tools after I buttoned it up Thursday. I had it when I started working on the clutch. Now I'm paranoid that I didn't have it and it's in my oil pan.

I think I'm going nuts, I can't quit thinking about that darn wrench! Tomorrow I'm going to go through my garage top to bottom.

Lost a clutch plate bolt too, but I have a feeling I dropped that into my clothes and lost it outside.

Where is my wrench!?!?

 

[anvil]

I found it dont worry

 

[headwork]

If it was looking for my wrench, it would be half way from where i was using it last and the location of the tool that i was going to get. Or it would be next to where my beer was sitting and my beer would be where the wrench should be. Or maybe in the house because why wouldn't I have carried it in there??? Now where is that beer...

 

[dmw56]

I left a rag in the intake one time when I replaced a carb. It ended up half way in #2 and didn't do the valve and piston any good.

 

[Bonehead]

I have an extra one, I could ship it to you.

This is a good place to add to this thread.
Over the years I have found some great tools in vehicles I have bought. Sometimes stuck on the back side of a bolt, and turned in stuck. Other times under the hood around the radiator, or back by the hindges. Screwdrivers, vicegrips, wrenches, but never in the oil pan. I'd be hoping for a packrat.

 

[Sam_Fear]

I left a rag in the intake one time when I replaced a carb. It ended up half way in #2 and didn't do the valve and piston any good.

Ouch!

About the worst I've done to date is left a plug out of the drivers side and cranked the motor - blew gas all over the fender well which quickly caught on fire and melted about 30 wires. At least it was outside the garage!

Still gotta find that cheap wrench. I'm starting to think the propane heater is using up too much of the oxygen.

 

[Bonehead]

Oh, look by the phone, that is where I seem to leave everything.

 

[Sniper]

Sam, I've looked and looked for lost wrenches before as well. Have found them in my back pocket beside my wallet where I couldn't feel it. Sniper

 

[Willowbilly3]

Oh, look by the phone, that is where I seem to leave everything.

For me, halfway to the phone.
If you lost a 13, I found it under the radiator in my F250.

 

[dogpatch1]

3/4 wrench what were ya doing checking the head----light fluid again? check under yer keyboard, or did you use it for a shifter? or frame spreader?

pull the drain plug and put a magnet in the hole n GO FISH good luck. dp1

 

[moronthethrottle]

The dreaded black hole in the shop. Have a lot of experience with that.

Maybe it was the night shift guys who ran off with it? Or it could be the shop elves.

I just went through an alternator fiasco with my GEO. Of course, stupid me- all it needed was a new belt. Problem now is, where does that leftover bolt belong? Oh well, it's getting me to work and back just fine...

 

[440shorty]

lost tools

One time I was working late at night. I walked around for a half hour searching for a tool that was in my left hand the whole time!!

I also have "lost" them in pockets - pants pocket, jacket pocket, shirt pocket...

Then again, I've had tool-eating cars before - sockets and other small tools fall into crossmembers, cowls, fender wells, quarter panels, etc. never to be seen again!

Always a sickening feeling when a tool or part drops and then no sound of anything hitting the floor. I've even found tools balanced on suspension parts!

My all time favorite, though is when we would R & R transmissions on the older straight- axle Chevy 4x4 pickups, we'd use a bar across the leafs and under the oil pan to hold the engine up. Many times that bar flew out on the road test after we forgot to remove it!

At least a 3/4 wrench is fairly large - it shouldn't fit inside the bellhousing?

good luck!

440shorty

 

[cycledog]

Not to worry, it'll be in the last place you look.

 

[moronthethrottle]

Not to worry, it'll be in the last place you look.

That's because once you find it you quit looking...so it's always in the last place you look.

 

[Sam_Fear]

I tried looking in the last place first, but it wasn't there!? Looked in my left hand too - wasn't there either...

Today I'm going to clean my garage top to bottom - it could use a good cleaning anyhow. Or, I might start back in on my bed bob and clean while my welds cool.

Why must you mock me so, oh foul 3/4" wrench?

 

[donsrods]

No question there are gremlins in the garage that hide these things when you turn your back. I have actually been working within a 3 foot square area and somehow misplaced a tool or bolt, and have no idea how it left that area. If a car build takes me two years, one year was spent looking for misplaced stuff.

Don

 

[Gearhead10]

Hate that "black hole" in the garage. You'll find it either right where you looked a dozen times or in the darndest place. I lost 2 9/16 wrenches on the same car once. They fell in the same place, and never did find em back.

 

[Bonehead]

I know I have mentioned this before, but have you ever been looking for a tool in your shop, and you start thinking someone must have broken into your shop and stolen it?

Then you look around at the welder, plasma, torch set, tubing bender, brake, and all the other tools still in the shop, and wonder why the thieves only took your screwdriver.

 

[Sam_Fear]

I FOUND IT!!!!!! REJOICE!

Headwork and 440Shorty are the winners. I set my beer down on the garage door ledge and leaned against it with my right hand - and there was my wrench. Headwork said it would be next to my beer and 440Shorty said it would be in my left hand - well I'm left handed so it was in my right!

I know I have mentioned this before, but have you ever been looking for a tool in your shop, and you start thinking someone must have broken into your shop and stolen it?

Then you look around at the welder, plasma, torch set, tubing bender, brake, and all the other tools still in the shop, and wonder why the thieves only took your screwdriver.

I thought that too. I was really going nutty over this one.

Alas what was once lost, now is found.

 

[Bonehead]

And the good news is all that other stuff you found while you were looking.